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Working on, is theyre trying to avoid any accountability for the stuff theyre doing. but there is one little sliver of what i guess youd call, accountability, that seems to have punctured the haze tonight. just as we were getting on the air, that i wanna tell you about. i mentioned jeff clark, justice department official who appears to have, cooked up this scheme with trump. where in the u.s. justice department would declare publicly that the election was corrupt. that serious voter fraud was be...

Ridiculous arguments about process, about -- think of the other arguments they are making that, oh, hes just -- corruption -- >> zelensky didnt know it. >> right, he didnt know it or it wasnt corrupt. he was really talking about corruption. i mean, all of these things that they dont really believe or couldnt possibly believe. i mean, if barack obama had done this, theyd be out for blood and theyd be right. >> neal, we have talked about this moment. you guys sort of share a legal theory when it c...

Act on behalf of yourself, and, again, thats the problem with trump. trump always puts himself first. you saw it with, oh, the doral, wanting to put -- wanting to have these foreign leaders meet at the doral. you see it with the mueller investigation. the mueller investigation was about what russia -- it wasnt really about trump as such, but because of trump being trump, he made it about himself. it was really stupid for him to do that. it didnt have to be about trump. but because hes so self-ob...

He didnt know it, or it wasnt corrupt. he was really talking about corruption. i mean, all of these things that they dont really believe or couldnt possibly believe. i mean, would they -- if barack obama had done this, theyd be out for blood! and theyd be right. so. >> neal, weve talked about this moment. you guys sort of share a legal theory when it comes to donald trump. barry mccaffrey calls it sort of his extrajudicial basket of sins. what does it say that there is a bipartisan -- a small, b...

True. there is a readout of the call which is not verbatim as he said, and they believe him. >> right. i mean the question, don, is how stupid does donald trump think we actually are? and judging by some of his supporters, i mean he thinks theyre pretty stupid, that theyll believe anything he says even though it is so plainly at odds with that phone call. remember those magic words, i would like you to do us a favor, though. >> right. >> whats interesting to me, don is while the president is sti...

We actually are? and judging by some of his supporters, i mean he thinks theyre pretty stupid, that theyll believe anything he says even though it is so plainly at odds with that phone call. remember those magic words, i would like you to do us a favor, though. >> right. >> whats interesting to me, don is while the president is still sticking to his defense that this was a beautiful and perfect call, there are some republicans who are not prepared to fully imbibe all of the kool-aid. so there wa...

White house issue and that is that they cant get their stories straight. they cant decide whether or not this didnt occur, there was no quid pro quo, military aid was not in any way linked to the political investigations or if it was perfectly fine and it all happened but it wasnt corrupt. this is a legitimate thing for the president of the united states to be doing. and so the president himself has been vacillating on this and so it is no surprise that aides like mulvaney that go out and give a...

Sondland, the ambassador to the eu gets angry when bolton is trying to stop the appointment with the ukraine president. and he actually shouts out the quid pro quo in the meeting. we have to have a meeting because giuliani said they get a meeting if they do the investigation. of course, this is the same sondland who said he didnt know if the president was talking about a real quid pro quo, but he was telling -- >> the quid pro quo wasnt corrupt. >> we have the quid pro quo and thats when bolton ...

And then the stonewalling was all an effort to muzzle these people so this probe wouldnt get the facts from them. the ambassador i mentioned, he is also reportedly planning to testify he worked with giuliani could get the ukrainians to publicly commit to this same ukraine plot, including the idea that they would release a special statement about the very biden-linked company that trump wanted investigated by name, and that was basically in exchange for a promised white house visit. one source sa...

With bob mcdonnell, the virginia republican governor and said that he didnt -- he wasnt corrupt because he was just doing donors favors but it wasnt an official act. >> julie: there is a slippery slope when it comes to politicians receiving any kind of gifts whatsoever especially when theyre up for reelection but politically there is a lot at play here. he is a democrat. if he gets convicted doesnt necessarily mean he will resign. thats another story. if he is unseated this could be a huge win f...