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Powers of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government, ukraine, in the 2020 United States president ial election. He did so through a scheme or course of conduct that soliciting the government of ukraine, dont harm the election prospects of a political opponent. President trump also sought to pressure the government of ukraine to take the steps by conditioning a conditional United States government acts of significant value to ukraine on its public announc...

What we found out he is come i there would have been a new cant remember if it is zero or that never happened with me and they are. Round of massive sanctions near 0 from any european county to the larger point of the against turkey. And you will see in the meeting one of the things you missed the president didnt want for lee legal aid. Meet you for the president say to take the meeting. Agreement that on the basis of we gave them tanks and they give he didnt want the phone call. Them pillows. T...

Insult insulted as you did today essentially blaming you for somalia. As if this is another step by the president to intimidate witnesses. He didnt intimidate you. Youre here. Youve endured. But there are other people out there that can expect the trump treatment if they come forward. Thats a question for us. Now, you also indicated that the president has a prerogative to appoint a noncareer person and to be candid, republican president s and democratic president s have done that. The mr. Sondla...

Political parties and it was. Regarding the authorization of the Clinton Impeachment inquiry, it was supported by all republicans and 31 democrats. Fast forward to the current impeachment, the trumps impeachment drive approved only by democrats. How does this they did not have any delusions. It is certainly not something they achieved in their own lifetime. You will be surprised that some of these framers did at the ends of their lives including Jefferson Adams sort of reconciled and i think one...

Charge. The truth is in the history of this republic, theres never been a single party fraudulent Impeachment Process deployed against a president like the one thats being used against donald trump. Thats whats unprecedented here. Its not the claim that a president doesnt want to turn over witnesses or documents. That, as weve said many times today, is actually quite common. And by the way, lets remember it needs to be noted again that President Trump has consistently cooperated with this congre...

Nfc. Is he the person that put it in the server . He testified to it. You have to ask him. Id love to do this. We would love to have these witnesses love to have the server . Id love to have the witnesses. We have people running around ukraine looking for a server under some cloud strike notion. We have 67 of the officials bribing officials as well. Thats theres no credible witness that said theres anything in the transcript that was not there. None of your witnesses i find the president goes ou...

Well, thats what it says. To faithfully execute the law. Is there anybody here i dont care what comes out of your mouth today is there anybody here who believes that this president has faithfully executed the law . And faithfully executed the duties, the sacred trust that has been put in his hands and on his shoulders. Hes supposed to faithfully execute the law, not ignore it. Not abuse it. And not forget it. President is supposed to be motivated by public interest. Public interest. The interest...

Phoebe with ambassador taylor, was he assesssatisfied that thie was now behindti him . I dont really know, because when i responded, get ahold of the secretary, and he said i agree. I never knew i whether he reach out to the secretaryhe or not. That was sort of the end at one point in the text you said lets get on the phone, you said youre an individual that doesnt like to walk through these issues on texts when you can talk about it on the 1 telephone, correct . I say that to everybody when som...

What does the president want to know . Did he ask about ukraines efforts to battle corruption . Of course not. Did he ask how the war with russia was going . Not a chance. On the phone, his voice loud enough, President Trump asked sondland, is hes going to do the investigation . The answer was clear. He ensured trump that the ukrainian president was going to do it and that he would do anything you asked him to. If that wasnt telling enough, my colleagues, in a conversation that followed, an amer...

To participate and actually defend itself a on the substanc . Or was does it do . Is it all bombast all the time until we get to potentially an Impeachment Vote. I want to delve deeper into that point and also tell our viewers here, as were at the top of the 11 00 hour on the east coast In Washington, youre watching msnbcs special live uninterrupted coverage of what all agree is a historic day on capitol hill. C this is the preparation for a house vote on resolution 660, providing for the rules ...