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Were going to talk about all of it in this hour as well as in a special report with the leads jay tapper. We want to focus on the call itself. The key points from july 25th which is the rough transcript is not verbatim. The president saying, i will say that we do a lot for ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot of time. Then after a brief digression the president continues, quote, the United States has been very, very good to ukraine. I wouldnt say that its reciprocal necessarily because th...

He wanted to show that bravado, and i took on mueller, and i win. If he had sat in that chair, don, you and i would have had a very different experience in processing the outcome of the Mueller Report because that president s ability to sit in a chair under questioning and not Say Something that was abusive of the truth is very small. Jay sekulow and the raskins convinced him not to do that. Hes a good lawyer. You mean we would have gotten the truth out of actually what was happening. Maybe. A l...

Said he is not a lawyer, assumed could be illegal. Sondland now admits he knew the bottom line, his testimony indicates his ukrainian counterparts knew it as well and knew the demands were from President Trump. In short no u. S. Military aid until ukraine publicly did the president two political favors. And if that were the sum total of what sondland, the ambassador of the European Union told house investigators that will be plenty but it wasnt his testimony that of kurt volker the preponderate ...

Is it just spin. You wonder if its part spin and trying to craft the narrative. Remember impeachment kwib here the public has to go along with it. They have to be on one side or the other. In favor or against. A lot of people are in the middle trying to figure out what they believe. His job is say hold on lets put it into perspective. The context that helps my client. Remember, that whole phrase the audience of one, a beneficiary of one when it comes to the nation and president United States can...

Why theyre holding the vote in the first place. Quoting, she said we are taking this step to eliminate any doubt as to whether the Trump Administration may withhold documents, prevent witness testimony, disregard duly authorized subpoenas, or continue obstructing the house of representatives. Nobody is above the law. Tomorrow will mark five weeks since Speaker Pelosi publicly announced the inquiry. In that time, the president s top lawyer said Administration Officials cannot participate in your ...

And trying to craft the narrative. Remember impeachment inquiry here the public has to go along with it. They have to be on one side or the other. In favor or against. A lot of people are in the middle trying to figure out what they believe. His job is say hold on lets put it into perspective. The context that helps my client. Remember, that whole phrase the audience of one, a beneficiary of one when it comes to the nation and president United States cant cut it in democracy. Who sekulow is spea...

Tonight, anderson, that special Counsel Robert Mueller sent a secret letter to the attorney general in late march, in the wake of that fourpage letter that the attorney general had sent to congress about the special counsels investigation. As you pointed out, bill barr, the attorney general, provided the principle conclusion saying that the special counsel did not find collusion and that it couldnt reach a conclusion on obstruction of justice and then went on to say there wasnt sufficient eviden...

Tell zelensky president zelensky to do the right thing. So here it my answer. I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell zelensky to do the right thing. Then he says, this is the final word from the president of the united states. I want nothing. Thank you, folks. So according to the new reporting in the New York Times when he said that, he already had known for more than a week, maybe two, that the whistleblower was about to make out point out the very thing you just heard the...