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Center of the impeachment inquiry. >> it was a little surreal to see the presidents defenders this weekend deny what was in the written transcript. there were not only denying what weve all read with our own eyes, but they were profoundly twisting the entire narrative of what happened in ukraine to somehow suggest that joe biden was advocating for some kind of nefarious purpose in getting this prosecutor fired when i think we need to restate this over and over again, the entire western world was...

Patriotism of people that worked in that white house or work there now to come forward and tell the truth. if they dont do it out of patriotism, theres always subpoenas. i truly believe theres going to be more evidence that comes out that will bolster the case that will then come to the u.s. senate. but my belief, to be clear, is that that transcript alone, that summary of a call is enough. but to make a stronger case to the public, you want to get the corroborating evidence. which is what the h...

Foreign power that is dependent on us. and theres a cover-up in terms of where they put the information. >> are you saying the president broke the law? >> im saying we must have impeachment investigations. i believe that this kind of conduct does rise to that level. but like any other good case in the senate, we have to look at all of the evidence. ive been calling for impeachment for months. >> when you look at the law, it shall be unlawful for a foreign national to make a contribution of money...

Love his country and has some serious concerns about what he was seeing from the highest levels of government. >> heres something that has jumped out to so many people about what happened after the phone call. and that is that the contents, the written transcript was transferred to a different computer server or network than would normally hold something like this. here is from the whistle-blower complaint. white house officials told me they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the tra...

"the washington post" reports that about a dozen people were listening in on president trumps july phone call with the ukrainian president including at least three inside the situation room who took notes and helped coordinate it. at some point a transcript of that call wu moved to a highly classified server where national security secrets are usually stored. were joined now by larry pfeiffer, he managed calls like these in the situation room during the obama administration. mr. pfeiffer, we wer...

Whistle-blower complaint? >> well, the transcript reads like any transcript that the people who worked for me created at the white house. the verbatim back and forth probably cleaned up a little bit to create a little bit more elegant flow to the language. i dont think theres really anything significant. if at all missing from the transcript. the whistle-blower complaint, we have a brave, courageous individual who put their career on the line who today has been threatened directly by the preside...

Like he kicked a touch down or something. and heres the guy caught up in a lie right on television which will never go away he will always be the guy who said i lied for trump. >> chris, an hour after as eli said announcing his new hampshire senate bid, he announces to the world hes a liar he confirmed for the world today, cory lewandowski did that he lie tuesday the american people and hes asking to be part of the united states senate that works in trumps gop but i think new hampshire republica...

Graham, he mentioned him and he did get applause there. it speaks to how much trump has let that relationship go downhill. we heard a little bit from merkel this week. it speaks to not certainly the tone was difficult. it was described by many there. the white house leaving an applause line in his written transcript, the fact that he didnt he was a little ruffled by it. >> my gosh, the whole watching that just reminded me of the jeb bush please clap moment. and this is the part where you guys ap...

>> a very nice way to put it katty kay, though, there has to be at least a few people in there that say, if you fired dan coats, that would -- that would be -- that would make the firing of james comey look like a spring shower for you politically, because, again, all dan coats is saying is what hes learned by picking up intel on the russians, what the other intel chiefs have said. theres nothing he said that was radical. the radical actions are taking place by the president of the united states...

Us from kuala lumpur. these families want to hear that final transmission. malaysian authorities say, no, this is an active investigation, right, jim? >> reporter: that is correct. you know, the families, understandably, have wanted to be hands on. when they were unable to get the raw data records, the radar records from the malaysians and others, they have gone out on the internet and created their own versions of it. in this case, they had the transcript, the written transcript, just like we d...