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Leno the spot. >> have you thought about the abc thing, about whether you want to come over here and more importantly, what will become of me? >> i thought, well, you know what? i would rather follow an hour of "tonight show" than half hour of "nightline." and five years or whatever when jay was done, i would move into slot. >> they said we want to keep you here. okay. what are your ideas? >> nbc wasnt doing well in prime time. so, we had an idea to strip a variety show across our 10:00 hour. >>...

Brought back. what else is next? what else does eddie murphy gong going on now? >> he has a movie coming out next year and i read that "beverly hills cop 4" is the in works and contemplating a turn to the stand-up next year. >> you were mentioning when eddie murphy first appeared in "snl," back in 1980, is wasnt doing so well and he was credited with saving the show. do you think we are going to see more of him on "snl" or these comedy shows? >> yeah. i guess we will have to see. i think that, y...

With the weight of the evidence but, more importantly, not backed up by any record the white house was willing to provide ambassador sondland. if that call didnt exist or is confused with another call, what proof is there that this president wasnt doing exactly what it looks like? if mueller had phone records like this, who knows what else he would have brought to beare n that probe. they once again inform the obvious. this wasnt one perfect call. it was a highly imperfect alliance of lots of pi...

Backed up by any records the white house was willing to provide ambassador sondland. if that call didnt exist or whatever, is confused with another call, then what proof is there that this president wasnt doing exactly what it looks like. if mueller had phone records like this, who knows what else he would have brought to bear in that probe. now, they once again inform the obvious. this wasnt one perfect call. it was a highly imperfect alliance of lots of pieces, players, all in the service of a...

Trying to do to get the ukrai ukrainians to be more serious about investigating corruption. that meant getting rid of that prosecutor who wasnt doing anything and getting one in place that would actually fight corruption. where his son and that company is concerned is succeeding in that, to get the ukrainians to change prosecutors and investigate corruption would have made it more likely that that company would be investigated rather than less likely. on the face of it, it doesnt hold up and doe...

Pursuing corruption. what vice president biden was trying to do was get the ukrainians to be more serious about investigating corruption. and that in this particular case meant getting rid of that prosecutor who wasnt doing anything and getting one in place who would actually fight corruption. the point being where his son in that company is concerned is succeeding in that, including leveraging u.s. assistance to get the ukrainians to change prosecutors and investigation corruption, would have m...

Trumpers when theres no evidence that either of them was that. what are you hearing in terms of what is that doing to the state department, to ambassadors? >> this was already a tough situation. and then on top of that, this particular ukraine case, where you see the ambassador to ukraine, yovanovitch, 30-year veteran of the foreign service, highly respected who had done hard posts. by the way, in republican and democratic administrations. i think president bush appointed her as ambassador to ar...

President basically ordered or directed zelensky to investigate biden and we were at a stalemate if he wasnt doing, the aid wasnt getting to him. >> cooper only testified i think for three and a half hours. a lot of the other witnesses obviously sat longer. did the five-hour delay because of the strange publicity stunt by some republicans, did that impact the length of her testimony? i mean, were you able to get through everything you wanted to find out from her? >> we got through everything. bu...

Host the g7 at his florida resort, he could still face a vote from the democrats condemning him for making that suggestion in the first place. how critical is that? >> well, hes not supposed to be able to use his presidential power and benefit from it by violating the emoluments clause and basically hosting the huge event at his golf course, which wasnt doing particularly well financially, and which they cannot prove that they went through the proper channels to investigate and ensure that there...

Wasnt doing enough investigating. >> if youre saying -- we have corruption in ukraine, we do, were going to say theres 50 people or 25 -- theres only one person that joe biden had fired in ukraine and it was the guy that was going after his son. >> not as aggressively enough, actually. >> hold that thought. congressman, charlie dent, go ahead. >> oh, my. i guess theres so much to say here. >> charlie. >> look, foreign assistance, of course, its condition based. it always is condition based. but ...