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>> we did not make that calculation. >> how could you not have made the calculation with the regulations -- >> the olc opinion, office of legal counsel, indicates that we cannot indict a sitting president. so one of the tools that a prosecutor would use is not there. >> could you charge the president with a crime after he left office? >> yes. >> you believe that he committed -- you could charge the president of the united states with obstruction of justice after he left office? >> yes. >> its re...

Is big news in this inquiry and very bad news for this white house. anderson? >> jim acosta, thanks very much. congressman ro khanna sits on the oversight committee, which has helped conduct the closed door hearings that have laid much of the groundwork for what were going to see on wednesday. he joins me now. in todays transcript release, we learned that a person named laura cooper, the pentagons deputy assistant secretary for russia, testified that ukraine was very much aware of their milita...

This is not a quid pro quo. i want him to clean up corruption before i give him $400 million. the president of ukraine said no, i was never threatened by president trump, i never believed there was a quid pro quo where i had to investigate joe biden and hunter biden to get $400 million of military aid. the whole thing is a joke. the whole thing is being driven bipartisans in the house. adam schiff is not looking for the truth and the testimony is incoherrent. it depends on who you talk to but th...

Thenman has direct knowledge of the phone call between donald trump and the recently elected ukrainian leader which launched democrats impeachment inquiry, quote, i listened in on the call. i did not think it was proper to demand a foreign government investigator us citizen and i was worried about the implications for the us government support in ukraine. house lawmakers debated the significance of his testimony among familiar party lines. >> the transcript release for todays deposition you will...

>> reporter: so the president continues to go after the whistleblower, even though he has said he doesnt know the identity, and jake, as president trump is dangling the possibility of the transcript release, he has been known to say in the past hell be transparent, such as testifying to robert mueller on russia, and then not doing it, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out, jake. >> i want to play these latest comments from president trump about the bidens once again just because th...

Prejudice against trump? he said no. his clients have called for the transcript release and the former f.b.i. agent is pleased his side of the story is now public. >> sandra: you also have news on the steele dossier as a florida court has unsealed records in a defamation suit against buzz feed. >> according to the newly released deposition. an aide to mccain gave the dossier to buzz feed. for nearly two years david kramer one time at the state department refused interviews with fox news and our ...

Trump, his continued efforts to discredit nonpartisan investigation of what happened with russia. thats what this testimony was about, what the dossier is about, and what we should be pursuing. we should be pursuing what actually happened here. let the facts go where they will. and i think thats what this transcript release helps us to determine. >> without any judgment on whether this was right or whether this was wrong, its a unilaterally move. and it signals a break with the republican judici...

Be the ones that actually hear that. there will be a transcript release. >> theres no way the audio is going to reach the public domain. >> its only through this cockpit voice recorder, which is the other box, which the tpl would ultimately listen for the ping. is that correct? theres no other way an investigator can tap into any kind of audio in the cockpit, correct? >> thats exactly right. that data is only captured on that flight recorder, thats right. >> staying with you, one of our senior i...