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Kevin had walked out on her and the kids and she had proof, text messages in her own phone from kevin breaking it off. >> shed received a message from kevin that he was leaving and she showed me these text message exchanges. something to the effect of, are you kidding me? and he said, no, im done, i cant do this anymore. >> the detective also spoke with steve shappell, kevins young employee who had been hanging around the apartment complex with morgan and the kids. >> he just seemed like a kid, ...

>> morgan invited the detective in and told him the same story. kevin had walked out on her and the kids. and she had proof. text messages in her own phone from kevin, breaking it off. >> she had received a message from kevin that he was leaving and she showed me these text message exchanges. something to the effect of, are you kidding me? he said no, im done, i cant do this anymore. >> the detective also spoke with steve shappell, kevins young employee, who had been hanging around the apartment...

Democrats main rmts arguments i of this. and when you look at what these all create is an opportunity where there are few opportunities to present conflicting information and will make them more difficult to stick with voters and people who are watching because of the polarization of the way its being covered. >> you have some reporting of what it was like inside that room during yesterdays hearing. pretty tense i can imagine? >> it was tense. it was also an interesting case in which there were ...

Pressure to be kicked out of her job. she felt threatened, so on and so forth. with each of these, the focus has been a little bit different. what are we expecting today? >> basically what theyre doing on the democratic side of the aisle as they are building a narrative. they release the transcript yesterday from gordon sondland, the ambassador to the european union, and he was involved in a series of text message exchanges with bill taylor. bill taylor was flagging here. he thought maybe there ...

Request for investigations to achieve president trumps domestic political goal. >> and just for a little bit more background, abby, he was -- he served as u.s. ambassador to ukraine from 2006 to 2009. he is deeply respected in diplomatic circles. he had retired. he was called back in to service because of -- after the marie yovanovitch was recalled and ousted from that position. >> and he was reluctant to do it. >> he was reluctant to do it as our reporting shows. >> but mike pompeo and kurt vol...

Ties beyond politics even today. >> which is nice that does still exist. >> it does. used to be more common as you know and you often hear republicans and democrats talk about a different time when they did know and spent time together. lets hope that there are repeats of that kind of relationship going forward. >> dana, thank you very much. all right. at any moment this morning, a key player in the impeachment inquiry, u.s. ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland is expected to arri...

>> right, the five hours, but then also, we shouldnt make this about the text message exchange. we also have to talk about what is the broader culture that would lead to taylor making an assertion this is about political exchange of favors or something like that. what would lead to that. much more expansive interview testifying around the culture and the environment and the moment that would lead to those text message exchanges. thats what congress was interested in hearing about during this kin...

>> what we see in this impeachment is a kangaroo court. >> secretary of state pompeo was asked about this in the last few minutes. watch. >> you can see nothing from pompeo there. but there is plenty from the dozen plus democrats who want sondland to resign. he was the one featured in the text message exchanges, insisting, quote, the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kien. and then adding i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. for its part, the white house may be a...

Thats an argument that very few people around the president in terms of lawmakers are willing to make. theyre not even touches the substance of what president trump did on that call or said on that call. theyre pivoting to this idea that there is some kind of vast conspiracy theory centered on ukraine where all the answers about what happened in the 2016 election are. the white house is just trying to ignore the facts here by focusing on the whistle-blower, suggesting that these claims are not v...

Appears frequently in documents that rudy giuliani gave to the state department as part of his bid to push them to investigate the bidens and those documents were given last week by the inspector general by the state department to congress. lots of questions from congress about what he knew and what the timeline was behind the scenes for the presidents push to get ukraine to investigate his political rivarivals. >> thank you so much. joining me now is msnbc national security analyst nicholas r...