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President and according to our sources pressuring the ukrainian president to investigate bidens son. >> you know, i read to my audience the key paragraph in this story a couple of times, but i want to go a couple paragraphs lower where it says "administration officials were instructed to tell lawmakers that the delays were part of a interagency process but to give them no additional information, a pattern that continued for nearly two months until the white house released the funds on the night ...

Ukrainian president to investigate biden? at the same time he was pressing his own government to withhold funding to the ukraine. >> carol, thank you. came leonnig of the "washington post" on a breaking story that continues to be updated with new information that donald trump ordered a hold on military aid days before calling the ukrainian president in this phone call that were focused on that is the subject of so much attention. former massachusetts governor and 2020 presidential candidate bill...

Attention. former massachusetts governor and 2020 presidential candidate bill weld joins me now. were going to continue our conversation. rejoins me i should say. given this new information, this new reporting from the "washington post," carol leonnig said what a number of members of congress have said today. this could be sorted out with the proper information. if the white house were to actually hand over the information necessary -- >> no, but the cover stories that the white house trotted ou...

I mean, heres another instance of the president putting the heat on saying to the country were trying to help, resist russia, and he turns around and says im going to take your aid away unless you become the opposition research center for my campaign for president of the united states. that is a fundamental profound abuse of power. >> all right. tonight nbc news is reporting that house democratic leaders have called a members-only caucus meeting tomorrow afternoon to discuss both the impeachment...

>> my reaction is one of absolute shock and amazement that apparently within hours of the -- or days of the mueller testimony the president is on the telephone putting american foreign policy in hock while he extorts the leader of another country to russias advantage, i might add. i mean, heres another instance of the president putting the heat on saying to the country were trying to help, resist russia, and he turns around and says im going to take your aid away unless you become the opposition...

Learning day by day more information about the nature of the presidents interest in ukraine and his personal effort to reach down into state and department of defense funding and hold it back from the ukraine while he was, you know, days away from talking to the president and according to our sources pressuring the ukrainian president to investigate bidens son. >> you know, i read to my audience the key paragraph in this story a couple of times, but i want to go a couple paragraphs lower where i...

Inquiry or in the case of veronica escobar of texas impeachment, itself. this new reporting from "the washington post" that seems to bring a whole lot more people into this web of whatever happened between president trump and the president of ukraine. what is your take on it at this hour? >> it seems to be a watershed moment and i think for a few reasons. you know, prior to this anything having to do with the mueller report because it was grounded in the 2016 campaign i think that it came, with ...

Opponent. there couldnt be a clearer example of the sort of behavior that the impeachment clause in the constitution is aimed at. if we sit still for this, and hes daring us to stop him. lets be honest. if we sit still for this and say what lovely new clothes the emperor has, we may as well tear up the constitution, the declaration of independence, the pledge of allegiance with the claim that were all indivisible with liberty and justice for all. thats not what he wants. he doesnt want a country...

>> you were referring moments ago to new reporting in the "washington post" that donald trump has -- had ordered a hold on military aid about a week before this phone call with the president of the ukraine, of ukraine. president trump told his -- im reading from the "washington post." told his acting chief of staff mick mulvaney to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which trump is said to have pressured the ukrainian president to inve...