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Second congress will not tolerate any repiesal. threat of reprisal or attempt to retail yat before testifying before congress including you or any of your colleagues. please rise and raise your right hand ill begin by swearing you in. do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god. let the record show that the witness has answered in the affirmative. thank you and please be seated. without objection your written...

Investigations. once we have a date they will announce the investigations in barisma meddling. mr. kent are these the same two investigations president trump asked the ukrainian president to initiate in the july 25th meeting, call? >> those appear to be the same issues mentioned in the call as well as the media campaign that started in march led by rudy giuliani. >> mr. kent, as the date-to-date state department point person in washington on ukraine policy, were you aware of this effort to persu...

Meddling. mr. kent, are these the same two investigations president trump asked ukrainian president to initiate in the july 25th meeting, 25th call? >> those appear to be the same issues that were mentioned in the call as well as the media campaign that started in march led by rudy giuliani. >> mr. kent, as the day-to-day state department point person in washington on ukraine policy, were you aware of this effort to persuade president zelensky to issue a statement in order to get a white house m...

He wanted attorney general bill barr to come out in public and basically do a repeat of what he did with the mueller report. he came out and said everything was totally fine. the president did nothing wrong, et cetera. now, barr didnt do it and, hopefully, well hopefully learn in the coming days why. but lets be crystal clear. they put out a statement, a written statement, that said, there wasnt even enough evidence for an investigation, let alone any sort of charges. so, they gave the president...

Around the time that the administration released that rough transcript. the justice department put out a statement sort of saying that. they said that officials had looked at the rough transcript of the call and determined that there was no reason to investigate campaign finance violations. but that was a written statement, and its kind of very specific to that one issue. and trump wanted more. now, we havent reported that he sort of directly ordered barr to do this or even had a personal conver...

Counterintelligence threat? >> i dont think theres anything that i can say on that subject. >> harris also repeatedly asked ray if it was ethical for the fbi to launch, limit or stop an investigation if requested by anyone in the white house? the fbi director said he deflected the question saying he cannot remember a time when trump or any white house official asked him to do so. giuliani has been at the center because he was to contact william barr for next steps to investigate joe biden and hi...

A critical part in making him adjust his statement. and provide this new statement that they must have known would be absolutely excoriated in the press as it is. at the same time, that decision is made when its the better of two evils. changing your testimony is a must. >> is he personally in any legal jeopardy? >> when it comes to perjury, but purchasi perjuring yourself before congress say crime. but weve seen high profile defendants in the last year who have dealt with lying to congress or l...

Welcome back, everybody. im yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. it was a very big night for democrats, unseating the trump-backed republican governor of kentucky and flipping the virginia state house. were going to get analysis on both of these huge stories in a moment. but i want to begin in a major development in the impeachment push, as ambassador gordon sondland reversing his testimony, acknowledging that american aid to ukraine was contingent on a wish list for the president. kris...

Back. >> the democrats feel they have that public admission of the quid pro quo already. i could be wrong, the deposition is scheduled for a saturday, which makes it more unlikely mick mulvaney comes in. he could show up, but odds are hes not going to. this is to set up the congress charge. unless mulvaney is on his way out of the administration or something, he has no incentive to start playing ball with the democrats more than he did in that public statement, which he tried to walk back twice ...

Hearings, on live tv. after all, the televised senate watergate committee hearing had so much impact politically and culturally that we still remember moments like these 46 years later. >> i began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it. i also told him that it was important that this cancer be removed immediately. >> they actually want open hearings or not, a source tells cnn that ...