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Last week Mick Mulvaney did not show up for a closed door hearing. Now he wants to join a lawsuit against his boss. The acting chief of staff wants to decide if he is obligated to answer questions on capitol hill. President trump teases he may release information on another phone call between him and his counterpart. She flipped off President Trump, lost her job and got a set that was republican. Her revenge run in virginia. A. Scott boulden a criminal defense attorney and former cher of the ass...

Says the decision to delay that aid to ukraine was highly irregular. A former colleague will join us in a minute. It is becoming increasingly clear how pivotal it would be if john bolton were to testify. Pete buttigieg breaks out in iowa with 78 days to the iowa caucuses, three days to the next debate here on msnbc. And kal penn on his new show sunnyside takes on daca. Up me this morning, shermichael singleton. Law professor at nyu. From washington is a White House Correspondent for the New York...

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To withhold hundreds of millions of funds in exchange for political investigations. but, again, we saw more details, more flesh put on the bone here. for instance, pences aide for the first time explained in detail by tby the vice presiden told her that trump specifically said he didnt want pence to go any more. with morison, we see the importance of firsthand witnesses. we see the importance of john bolton. the democrats need to see people who interacted directly with trump to push this case al...

And could underline the republican argument that none of these witnesses have a firsthand account. >> lets sort of pull back and talk about the atmosphere surrounding this, withholding the aid. it is a clear example of an effort within the white house to release that aid, get the aid released. its part of this larger story that you had folks in any number of agencies, be the defense department, folks on capitol hill, wondering why it hadnt been released. from tim morisons testimony, there was no...

Frustration. >> tim morison saying my consistent direction was do not get involved and make sure the lawyers are tracking when it come to gordon sondland. fiona hill said that was the message she got as well. this was a mess, drug deal, hand grenade waiting to go off. we are in a perilous position here. >> thats right. what i gleaned from the closed door depositions was the lengths that john bolton went to, despite his concern, to distance himself from this controversy. when people did raise con...

Day it is important for democrats to, you know, put forth witnesses that directly spoke with the president. gordon sondland is going to be a linchpin in the investigation here. he is the person who omitted this call that was practically on speaker phone in kyiv. he is the person here who is going to provide the most compelling testimony, or is willing to, that the president directed him to coordinate this scheme to get ukraine to launch an investigation into political opponents. >> shermichael, ...

Witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. closed door testimony from tim morison paints a picture of john bolton working feverishly during a secret august meeting trying to convince him to release the $391 million in security aid to ukraine. investigators say u.s. ambassadors to the eu says he believes he was acting in president trumps direction urging ukraine to announce political investigations. tim morison was on the july 25th phone call, raised red flags, telling government lawyers it could be d...

That was a classic trump maneuver. whenever somebody gets in trouble, he is the first to run in the other direction. i hardly know gordon sondland reminded me of manafort, former campaign manager, briefly worked as an intern or something to really downgrade any connection he has to anyone in trouble. the other thing i wanted to point out is tim morison was one of the witnesses that republicans quickly jumped on as something that bolstered their case. he came out of his first testimony saying he ...

Ohr. how likely is it they testify given the parameters that adam schiff subscribed? >> he will have to let a couple testify. the whole point is republicans are trying to say hes biased, thwarting the process, not giving president trump his due process. so i suspect there will be a couple. i would not be surprised if tim morison and kurt volker both testify. both have testified behind closed doors. they have already given depositions. adam schiff promised to release all the depositions. as for t...