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Guys? steve: do you think? ainsley: con fras what bill clinton did in 1998. he stayed under the radar. the president is out there, going to a rally. he is going to be moving ahead. steve: griff, thank you very much. three hours from right now. griff is talking about that letter that the president sent, the six pager to nancy pelosi. apparently it was written by steven miller. and eric eulin legislative affairs director from the white house. apparently they didnt want the white house lawyers to l...

Matters that they thought were wrong that the president did? >> mr. hastings, i wish we had those people testify before my committee but they didnt. >> okay. let me turn to the foot note. it says a memorandum of the telephone conversation is not a verbatim transcript of a discussion. the text in this document records the notice and recollections of situation room duty officers and nsc policy staff assigned to listen and memorialize the conversation in written form as the conversation takes place...

Client, president trump, to tell the truth. i think one of the challenges for the president if he is weighing whether to testify in written form, the white house has blocked several trump aides from testifying, people directly involved in conversations with the president. if the president himself were willing to answer questions about ukraine, theres no rationale to keep them from testifying about the president. >> secretary of state mike pompeo had a chance to defend some of the state departmen...

Mulvaney, also a former omb official, he was actually on the call between the president and the ukrainian president, and he also might have some details about how that money was held up or even transferred. jim, poppy? >> thanks very much. the attorney for the ukraine whistleblower says his client is willing to answer questions from republican lawmakers but in written form. this comes after the president, you may have known, has repeatedly demanded the whistleblowers identity being revealed sayi...

Questions in written form to the mueller report. i see this as a sideshow. what do you see? i see a sideshow. the notion of saying, were going to have a response thats vetted. normally youre talking about the president of the united states or any other fact witness, you would kind of shrink away from that and say, i would like to hear to test the persons credibility. but the whistle-blower protection act, this is something thats very generous and magnanimous, frankly, of a whistle-blower who fol...

Many crazy things. he tweeted over the weekend that the republicans should put out their own transcripts of the hearings that are going on in private now. i mean, there are official court reporters there. theres not going to be more than one transcript. theres no question about the legality of the transcripts. crazy stuff like that, weve just sort of learned to discount that, oh, well, you know, thats just trump talking. but i think that has a cost. the whistle-blower thing has a -- and also, th...

Lawyer now offering his client to answer questions from republicans directly in written form, is that a good idea? >> the whistleblower as you know, has preotections. also the independent dense to agree to a certain amount of exposure. im concerned when we start expoedsing whistle blowers because it deters others who want to come forward. this is a very, very serious action. i dont take it lightly. i didnt run for office to impeach the president. but if this whistleblower is part of the investig...

We had an exact transcript. >> to be clear, it was not an exact transcript. in n fact, it was a memo and it saysmo here on the actual documt released by the white house, paige 1, caution of a memorandum of a telephone conversation is not a verbatim transcript of the discussion. the text in this document records the notes and recollections of situation room duty officers and msc policy staff designed to memorialize the conversation in written form as the conversationwr takes pla. >>ta so presiden...

Means that she and other senior officials had concluded a potential crime had been committed raising more questions about why the justice department declined to open an investigation. questions, the referral was made over the phone and relay today the attorney general himself. however, quote, justice department officials now say they didnt consider the phone conversation a formal criminal referral because it was not in written form. and this was the first of two criminal referrals that the doj r...

Of a company tied to his son. we should note there is not direct evidence to support this allegation that the president made in the call. now, zelensky said in response to the president bringing up biden that the next prosecutor would look into it. now, we should note that at the bottom of this log there is a disclaimer, that this is not a, quote, verbatim transcript of a discussion. it goes on to say that the text of this document records the notes and recollections of situation room duty offic...