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punxsutawney, pennsylvania. get your arms around that. theyre waiting to see. >> i love it. >> will the groundhog see his shadow? >> fantastic. >> band is on stage. everyone is ready to go. >> we have to do the show live from there sometime. >> oh, my god, id love to do that. can we do the show live from punxsutawney? >> groundhog day for me is one of those things, i can never remember whether the groundhog sees its shadow, its good or its bad. it just doesnt stay with me. maybe becaus...

State department is fully supportive of not only what weve done but our ukraine policy moving forward. >> but no defense your employees? >> i always defend the employees. its the greatest diplomatic court in the world. proud of the team. >> im curious if you think ambassador taylor has been effective in that policy and if hes going to remain in his job or if the president has lost confidence in him. >> state department is doing a fantastic job. think weve deliver in a way that the obama administ...

Distinction. >> well, willie, the house impeachment investigators released a transcript from last fridays session? >> yeah, another important witness. the closed-door deposition from state department official david holmes. hes the man who overheard the july 26th cell phone call between u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland and president trump when holmes joined sondland at a restaurant in kiev. according to the transcript, homes told -- >> by the way, can we have a real here, its...

Therefore hes kind of like working with the ukrainians, lets just try to meet donald trumps demands and then everything can come back into place. but i think he has to be forthcoming. its overwhelming evidence against him. i just dont see how he actually ends up helping the republicans. if he tries to stick to his former testimony, i think he also undermines the republican position because it will crumble. he has no credibility with the former testimony. theres just so many data points and speci...

Interesting this week, even gordon sondland testifies. because there are some people who think gordon sondland is going to realize that he went a little too far and possibly say, look, i was just doing whatever the president told me to do. theres some republicans who want to make the case that gordon sondland went a bit too far and was out of realm of what president trump was hoping he would do. >> willie, theyve already proven, have they not, we already have testimony that the ukrainians felt p...

Same fate as everyone else who attaches themselves with loyalty, unquestioning of donald trump. im reminded that pretty early on in the trump administration donald trump was asked by fox news about different ambassador posts. and at the time we didnt have an ambassador to south korea, when was important since he kept egging on kim jong-un. and donald trump said we dont know ambassadors in all these different posts, i can do everything. and i think donald trump genuinely believes that he doesnt n...

Will willie, his words and deeds leave no doubt that this guy is trying to help russia any way he can. >> at the very least, hes an easy mark for vladimir putin. were looking at the tape where he stopped on his way to new orleans, took some questions from reporters and you had kristin welker ask her in an extraordinary moment whether or not he was working for russia, whether or not the president of the united states was working for russia, a question the president had to finally address and give...

Is the fact that the question has to be asked because of the president of the united states behavior over the past three years. and actually, im sure as robert mueller knows, over the past 30 years. willie, it really was a surreal moment when you saw kristen welker ask that question. as susan said, its a question that we all knew had to be asked. we were all waiting for it to be asked again to see if he would finally deny it. just a surreal moment that really does make watergate look look a thir...

>> good choice. good morning, everyone. >> smart, smart candidate. >> love her. . we welcome to "morning joe." we have joe, willie and me, national affairs analyst, executive producer of showtimes "the circus," john highly maeil. >> he doesnt watch morning even when hes on morning joe. >> rick tyler is with us. washington bureau chief for "usa today," sharon page and glenn kirschner back on the show this morning. and what a day to have you on. >> what a day to have him on. also, mickey, yesterda...

Muellers investigation. he wrote "the special counsel should not be permitted to demand the president submit to questions on obstruction of justice. so, glen, william barr can say what he wants to and im glad hes saying but his initial feelings, his core feelings remain true as published in that memo. >> willie, it was almost a surprise, i think, when the president first announced he would nominate bill barr because bill barr was viewed as something of an institutionalist, a law and order guy, s...