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Mean, were sending a signal to unborn generations that i think could very easily cause the collapse of the most powerful nation ever to exist. >> well, you know, you mentioned the word evidence, so i want to get to rich lowry, who wrote an article for "politico," asking, "why should democrats be content to hear from the current batch of witnesses, people who were mostly out of the loop, rather than getting testimony from the true insiders, like trumps attorney, rudy giuliani, secretary of state ...

Across the board, republicans have stood by the president and bashed the democratic-led process. >> this is the first partisan impeachment in the history of our country. i think chairman schiff and speaker pelosi knew from the very beginning how they would vote and what they were going to try to prove. >> another of the presidents efforts to defend himself is eroding. >> i want nothing. i want no quid pro quo. >> trump saying he told ambassador gordon sondland on september 9th right before the m...

Ambassador bolton tell you that giuliani was, quote, a hand grenade? >> he did, yes. >> what do you think he meant by his characterization of giuliani as a hand grenade? >> what he meant by this was pretty clear to me in the context of all of the statements that mr. was making publicly about the investigations that he was promoting, that the story line he was promoting, the narrative he was promoting was going to backfire. i think it has backfired. specific instruction was that i had to go to th...

The answer is yes. i followed the directions of the president. we did not want to work with mr. giuliani. simply put, we were playing the hand we were dealt. mr. giulianis requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president zelenski. he had to announce the investigations. he didnt actually have to do them as i understood it. everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. >> maya, would we have learned all this and would we be on the precipice of impeachment hearings for dra...

They dont have a very good defense. all theyve got is certain republicans who will jump up and down and say its a circus and make it into a cartoon show and try to do all they can to rattle the chairman and disturb and not bring up any challenges to the facts that have been clearly shown that he and the team were all in cahoots. sondland laid it out, they were all in the loop. >> you brought up complain, complain, complain. thats what your republican colleagues are doing, as if on cue, the house...

Own way of keeping order and discipline, and that that is what brings about the professionalism that makes the u.s. stand apart from many other nations around the world, and that he wanted a peer review of navy members who would have looked at the case of gallagher to decide if he could retire with his seal membership, with his rank and so forth, and that thats the appropriate place for such a decision to be made, not an order coming from the commander in chief. he also writes about the fact he ...

Biden being his opponent. >> second defense, i didnt know what rudy was doing. rudy said in the past i was doing it for my client, i was working as his attorneyis there any credence to that theory? does it give any clearance to the president if this was about what rudy did, not what the president knew about what he did? >> i think theres information thats come out that pompeo had talked to rudy -- >> yes. >> unfortunately pompeo wont testify, nor will giuliani to our committee, but pompeo and gi...

The president if this is about what rudy did, not what the president knew about what he did? >> i think theres information thats come out that pompeo had talked to rudy. >> yes. >> pompeo wont testify, nor will giuliani to our committee. but that pompeo and giuliani had talked. giuliani and sondland had talked. ambassador sondland was a key -- i wouldnt put him to the level of john dean, but he had giuliani and pompeo and mulvaney and the whole cast of characters as totally in the loop and plott...

Thats the conspiracy theory they hoped youd pick up on, and here you are talking about it in these hearings. >> and its a really dangerous thing that the secretary is doing by peddling the ukraine narrative. it also says to our allies, to the people were negotiating with on a whole host of issues around the world, we will believe nonsense. we will spout it. you cant trust our words, and just once i wish id hear someone from either the elected republican or someone from this administration say, y...

Saying neither the defense secretary or his chief of staff knew that spencer was going to the white house to try and precook a deal that would have preserved gallaghers s.e.a.l. status. that would have been the impartial review would have been anything but. >> thats key there because what spencer has said is that, okay, yes, esper was traveling overseas. i didnt speak directly with him about this contact with the white house but i did keep his chief of staff in the loop. the pentagon is saying t...