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I had. there was no quid pro quo. the whistle-blower was so dishonest. the whistle-blower said terrible things about the call, but i then found out he was secondhand and thirdhand. these are bad people. these are dishonest people. when the american people find out what happened, its going to be a great day. >> dana: all of that after house democrats threaten to subpoena the white house for documents on the presidents dealings with ukraine. they say the white house has left them no choice. democr...

Campaign during the 2016 election. in other words, it appears the attorney general was and is hard at work helping the president prop up a disproved conspiracy theory for political gain. and that is the reason why an exchange, theres a principle within the rule of law that investigations have to be initiated because of some factual predicate, because theres some reason to believe theres wrongdoing and they are not and cannot be a reason of tool for those in power to punish political enemies or d...

Ability to compel testimony from these individuals because of the wrongdoing that they may have been a part of or witnessed. it is frankly rich for the secretary of state to be making these totally unbased claims about intimidation of state department employees given the fact that the inspector general has issued a scathing report of secretary pompeo, making clear that for years secretary pompeo, and before that secretary tillerson, have been engaged in a campaign of trying to root out and punis...

National security interest of the united states. theyre not there to protect the president from embarrassing information, politically embarrassing information and certainly theyre not there to protect criminal wrongdoing. so the way this call was handled to me was raising a ton of alarm bells. first of all, these calls are normally classified at levels no more than secret i think is what most foreign calls are classified at. and certainly not at the code word top-secret level which is a system a...

Some guidance about how to convey the nature of the complaint. at no time, according to the committee, did mr. schiff learn about the substance of the complaint, so here is a statement from patrick boland, the spokesperson for adam schiff as conveyed to alex moe. he said the whistle-blower contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence committee. at no point did the committee review or receive the complaint in advance. he con...

And suggest to people that come forward with evidence of his wrongdoing are somehow treasonous and should be treated as traitors and spies. this is a blatant effort to intimidate witnesses. oats an incitement of violence. >> for more im joined by presidential democratic candidate kamala harris. senator, what do you make of this as a former prosecutor? this witness intimidation, scaring a witness, it seems almost mob-like, racketeer-like to say all right youre going to go up there, youre going to...

Keen interest in the behavior of the state department and the secretary of state. mike pompeo is trying block state department officials and even a recently resigned state department official from giving depositions to the impeachment inquiry even though those officials in most cases would seem to be direct fact witnesses to some of whats gone on here. i know that youre an institutionalist when it comes to these agencies and these parts of our government. i just -- i wonder if you believe that m...

>> he absolutely is not within his rights to block this testimony. the house or the senate has the ability to compel testimony from these individuals because of the wrongdoing that they may have been a part of or witnessed. >> so, phil, this gets complicated, but the inspector general is also appearing on the hill today with what may be a response to this pushback from pompeo but also, we understand from reuters at least, some other instances of attempts to intimidate state department officials....

Carolina democratic voters said they may change their minds for the upcoming primary. a third, 34% has said they have made their choice. johnson & johnson has reached a $20 million settlement. its agreed to pay health care and cuyahoga county in cash to nonprofits for opioid-related programs in those counties. johnson and johnson did not admit wrongdoing, and the pharmaceutical responsible for the opioid products have said it accounted for less than 1% of opioid prescriptions in the united sta...

Chain. bill brookschmidt ran risk for the entire organization globally. and then to your point, then sat on their board. how on earth can deutsche bank make the claim it was some guy sitting over there in risk management in jacksonville? give me a break. >> well, listen, this is a pattern at most big banks, most big corporations. >> sure. >> in fact, deutsche bank is the poster child for wrongdoing in corporate america, in the corporate world. and i think this is a pattern. they try to dump stuf...