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Hour. Ali velshi is here. That would be wild if there wasnt a mention of emoluments in the konsz constitution. Even without it. If you look at the way business operates, the way we operate, the way politics operates, you protect against seeming like seeming like. For your own pocket. Even if the impression is there you protect against that. This was the danger when people didnt take the emoluments clause seriously when we discussed it. It becomes more and more on normal. We started discussing it...

Department that essentially says the president is above the director, therefore the president is not subject to the jurisdiction of the director, therefore it doesnt meet the definition of urgent concern, therefore the Inspector General is done. The Inspector General cant investigate anymore. Thats the Inspector Generals reading of the Department Opinion, that he is no longer allowed to investigate this. Is that your reading as well . Chairman, not necessarily the president , but the allegation ...

The oath will require, and even though what speaker pelosi is doing is to focus on the need of the fair trial, and the fair trial means that you get to call your witnesses. every american knows that is what a trial is all about. >> and new documents released this weekend with critical details of the key components of the democrats case for impeachment, and they reveal e-mails of the office of management and budget and the pentagon regarding the military withheld funds to ukraine and one e-mail s...

Argument. it would seem that the president, you know, falls in line with the democrats ironically in wanting to call witnesses. >> very interesting. i think that my belief is that there is a certain number of witnesses called and maybe a certain number for each side, and i think that it is only prudent that we do so. you brought up in the previous segment the fact that we have new information about this e-mail sent following the phone call which raises the question of why, you know, conditionali...

Phone call or an e-mail was made after this phone call relatively soon thereafter and within a couple of hours raises the question of why. was the preliminary hold only in hold until the phone call at which time the president was seeking an answer to the question about whether zelensky was going to actually order the investigations or announce investigations, and when he didnt provide the information that trump sought, did they then impose the conditionality again, and those are the questions to...

This right now were seeing what ben sasse, a republican center who hasnt crossed president trump in a long time called what he read, quote, very troubling. matt miller, youve been reading through. what jumps out at you? >> yesterday republicans set the bar for what would be misconduct by the president at a quid pro quo. there is direct evidence in this document of quid pro quo. >> what do you see? >> multiple u.s. officials told me that the ukrainian leadership was led to believe that a meet org...

Helped dig up dirt on joe biden. >> and really, clair, this underfliens more specific detail because theres follow-on investigation of what we read in the phone call yesterday, this gives us much more detail. >> whats interesting is the white house distributed talking points, ham handedly because they sent them to the democrats too, and part of that talking point was that zelensky brought up giuliani first. >> right. >> well, lets look at this document in that context. and lets go back to april ...

Inspector general. >> the appendix points out that on may fourth the president instructed vice president pence to cancel his planned trip to ukraine to attend zelenskys inauguration. rick purchaerry went in said it was made clear that the president did not want to meet zelensky until he showed how he was going to act be in office. its my understanding a meeting between the president and zelensky would depend on whether he chose to play ball on the issues of -- >> and your point about barr, this ...

About the information that is provided herein. it is remarkable, again, in this letter that attorney general barr is mentioned as being involved and yet barr chooses to, jeremy said, cover it up. however you want to describe it. chooses to not let the acting dni go to the hill to reveal a whistle-blower report that, as it says right here, attorney general barr appears to be involved in it as well. mika, what are you reading? >> ill jump to seven pages in during this same time frame multiple u.s....

Around zelensky who knew this, take the people around everybody thats been involved in this. suddenly this little conspiracy expands. and its something that cannot be contained. and, barr knows hes on the hot seat now. he can play it cool if he wants to. but a $30,000 christmas party at a trump property is not going to protect him. zelensky now has his own political problems at home. hes going to have to explain this as well. the ukrainians are already getting out in front saying, hey, we knew t...