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Quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president zelensky. 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. >> we bring in our special panel now. do you remember "the new york times" editorial board that covered washington clins the clinton administration. dania. and peter emerson, an aid to the member of the judiciary committee during the nixon impeachment, drafrting these articles in a differen...

Staff detailed a plot to extort foreign help to cheat in the election campaign. for the first time this week we saw trumps own staff saying under oath the plot was not a shadow policy. it was the ordained policy of the trump administration. as memorably said, quote, everyone was in the loop. so here we go. 12 witnesses, 30 hours of testimony and many people distinguished themselves from even their more powerful bosses who remain in bureaucratic hiding because remember how a lot of this ended las...

As i received previously with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is question. >> wow. how do you confess that this week and get away with it? well, look, he could be nay eve about some things, but he came in with larger names an his own. an ambassador to donald trump details who was in on the plot, naming names and according to sondland it was everyone. mr. gull yiuliani, president tr mr. mulvaney. ambassador taylor, ambassador volker, a lot of senio...

Article related to obstruction. >> and to that point, ambassador sondland said the president new, he was acting on the presidents orders, everyone was in the loop. but republicans tried to make that point consistently and you can hear it that a lot of this sounds bad, but none of you heard it directly from the president. >> did the president of the united states ever say to you that he was not going to allow aid from the united states to go to the ukraine unless there were investigations into bu...

>> that is a lot of dough. >> 2020 democrats are accusing him of trying to buy the nomination. but could it work? hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of the union is looking ahead. house democrats are moving forward in the impeachment inquiry after two weeks of historic public testimony on capitol hill. the clear picture that has emerged, the trump administration was pushing ukraine for political investigations while holding up military aid and a white house meeting that ukrain...

Everyone was in the loop. stch it was no secret. >> was there a quid pro quo? as i testified previously, with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is "yes". >> but even after 12 witnesses testified in public for more than 30 hours, the hearings do not seem to have changed the political dynamics in washington. president trump continues to insist that he has done nothing wrong and there are still no republicans in the house or senate that we can tell are...

Everybody was in the loop. everybody knew about this. and the other testimony also revealed that though trump didnt say explicitly that he wasnt going to visit the ukrainians or give military aid to the ukrainians unless they announced this investigation, actions speak louder than words. because the military aid was being withheld but not one national security official agreed with that. so we learned a lot of these things about the quid pro quo to further trumps personal interest. >> meantime, t...

Talked about the importance of linking the presidents decision to freeze ukrainian aid to his efforts to dig up dirt about the bidens. >> yes, the presidents own chief of staff, the person who meets with the president every day on live camera admitted exactly that vis-a-vis the most serious and that is the military aid. but look, what ambassador sondland did say was everyone was in the loop on the preconditioning of the meeting that ukraine desperately fought for its recognition that the united ...

Hoffa family, president of the teamster, they support the release, lets get the truth out about jimmy hoffa, go to fox nation. chris: im chris wallace, inspector general report awaited for months is expected to find the fbi investigation into russia and the trump campaign was not politically motivated. ♪ >> this is spying on my campaign. this was an overthrow attempt at the presidency. chris: justice departments top watchdog is expected to sharply criticize lower-level fbi officials, but he re...

Ambassador sondland confirmed that there was not only quid pro quo but that the secretary of state knew about it. >> we kept the leadership of the state department and the nsc informed of our activities. and that included communications with secretary of state pompeo, his counselor ol rick bruck bull, lisa kenna and communications with ambassador bolton, dr. hill, mr. morison and their staff at the nsc. they knew what we were doing and why. everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. everyone wa...