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Be hidden. thats a hearsay complaint about the ukraine call, that person needs to be respected, but then be totally okay when cbs fires a news producer for helping blow the whistle on a story that "abc news" spiked in 2015 about a convicted pedophile, jeffrey epstein. right, humpty dumpty? right, jeff zucker? and perhaps the most shameless hypocrisy of all, you have this corrupt, compromised coward, for three years, nothing but a congenital liar -- by the way, lied in this case already. adam sch...

Of staff said occurred. the presidents ambassador to the european union mr. sondland saidoccurred, or is it extortion, or is it bribery? its important to remember, ari, in an impeachment proceeding a specific criminal charge notwithstanding the language of high crimes and misdemeanors, treason and bribery, may get sup superceded by the concept gerry pointed out which is abuse of power. theres ample evidence it could be any one or all three of those things, the underlying or essential thing that ...

Political opponent. i think were going to hear that loud and clear and hear pancreatic americans who are expressing deep concern about what they experienced. >> congressman hiems, same question. >> the important thing is that weve spent weeks arguing whether its quid pro quo which the presidents own chief of staff said occurred. the ambassador the european union, mr. sondland said occurred. or is it extortion or bribery? its important in an impeachment proceeding a specific criminal charge, not ...

Quid pro quo, we can call it extortion, bribery. all of it points in the same direction. the parnas testimony if thats materializes would be just another point in that. >> and heres why. it hasnt been corroborated. hes under indictment. if it is corroborated, its one of the earliest instances of them telling ukraine the presidents thoughts on this. this ran sosom they wanted essentially. and they say the ukrainians didnt know that aid had been on hold. so that would really change that. he makes ...

Public might respond. democrats know they need broad public support to make the case for removing donald trump from the presidency. and as they prepare for that, theyre using new language, more directly, to more directly describe what they say the president did. no more quid pro quo and instead theyre calling it extortion. the first witnesses theyre call rg the top diplomat to ukraine, bill taylor and senior state department official george kent. they testify on wednesday. ousted ukraine ambassa...

Get public opinion on their side. democrats are saying skip with the quid pro quo, stop calling it that, call it extortion. you have republicans using a variety of argument, including matt tohorn bury saying i dont love what the president did, but it is not impeachable. the president doesnt like that strategy. what would you recommend to your republicans moving forward? are they taking the right tack or is the horse out of the barn here? >> republicans have to remember that they have a constitut...

I think by shifting to calling it prescribery and ive heard them call it extortion as well, they are trying to focus the american people that this is not a this for that. its something that exceeds the bounds of executive propriety. the president of the united states withholding congressio l congressionally appropriated funds in order to achieve something in the next election. >> and tim, you know the republicans say they want, they have a list of witnesses that they want called and lindsey grah...

>> any private attorney you would assume would make conversations based on that, but i also know rudy giuliani well enough to know that theres a whole lot of things that he does that doesnt surprise anybody. >> we touched on this a bit. but is that where were going? that if the testimony is come telling that they call it a quid pro quo, some democrats say we dont want to use that term, call it extortion. call it what you will. this all happened, but the presidents hands are clean, they were peop...

Wants a republican party that is talking about him in a positive light, who are making the arguments that frankly youre making, hugh is making, which is the president did nothing wrong. or the president might have done something that was a little problematic, but this is how foreign policy works. we have to give them something to get something. i will say that democrats are very -- theyre very focused on how to tell the story this week, and ill told from democratic aides they wanted taylor to be...

Extortion. i had one democratic congressman say lets call it extortion, something more visceral. >> this is the uyeeugene robins article. enough with the latin. what trump did is bribery. is this really the democratic partys -- is that why theres 40% not listening? i dont think its the latin. >> their problem is this is something complicated. it gets more complicated with all of the names and far away events. and here we had one of the leading democrats saying we dont want to talk about quid pro...