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That an impeachable offense? >> well, we hope that the administration will cooperate. that certainly hasnt been the case up-to-date. though there is some reason to believe that moving forward given the seriousness of these allegations that we will see cooperation from secretary pompeo. were going to follow the facts, apply the law, be guided by the constitution, were going to unearth the truth for the american people which relates to the fact that the president has betrayed his oath of office, h...

Mystery deepens over who is the alleged whistleblower and who changed the intelligence communitys rules just last month eliminating a requirement that whistleblower complaints contained only direct, firsthand knowledge of alleged wrongdoing. chris, if democrats have their way, this could all move very quickly including more subpoenas this week, hearings scheduled is and a possible vote to impeach by november. chris? chris: kevin corke reporting from the white house, thanks for that. joining us n...

Whats happening. the democrats are in charge, and they are going to be investigating this, and they want the president out of office. what are you going to do about about it as the ranking member of judiciary? >> well, its been a really interesting week because it seems like the judiciary committee is, again, in this ramrod of speaker pelosi and, you know, frankly, degradation of the house rules. theyre saying now, well, were going to do an inquiry, were going to keep following the rules, but we...

There is no evidence of wrongdoing and ukraines former top prosecutor has agreed, but president trump brought it up with ukrainian president prompting the whistleblower complaint in the first place and that is what has sparked the impeachment investigation, garrett tenney with more and what we know about this. >> this controversy surrounding hunter bidens work for one of the biggest gas companies in ukraine isnt new. in early 2014 vice president joe biden became the obama administrations point m...

The process started to be politicized. we need to all back the process down, use stop using it for political purposes and use it for what it is designed for, get evidence of wrongdoing so special counsel and prosecutors can all do their jobs. >> dan, count me among those who hadnt seen a whistle-blower account like this before. what does it tell you about the way this individual approached the complaint. what did you make of how it was presented? >> as a very well-written document the the first ...

Whistleblower. thats our paramount concern here. this whistleblower has done obviously a cardinal service to the country by exposing wrongdoing of the most serious kind. a breach of the presidents duty of the country that endangers our security and hes got to be worried about his own security right now with the president issuing threats like he did the other day. >> your committee has seen material end up in the white house before, end up with the presidents team before. are you confident that y...

Cast a shadow over our government. as people would say, lou, if you asked for help from the mexican government what would happen. of course clearly i would probably not be in my job. so people want transparency. more importantly, people in my district are telling me they want congress to do our job. they want us to do an investigation and they want us to make sure theres a government, an election system that they can rely on and trust. >> that is the whistle-blower complaint. when it comes to th...

Said there is nothing there. >> going to note here im going to beat it like a drum. in my exclusive interview, the former ukrainian general prosecutor reiterated there was no evidence of wrongdoing by joe biden or his son hunter. joining me from california is congressman, surrogate for the biden campaign, correia. how do you respond to constituents who hear this specious messaging from his surrogates, allies and ask you about it. what is your response to him as they bring up these fantastic stor...

Theres no evidence of any wrongdoing by vice president biden and i might call other foreign leaders who would say hes doing exactly what we wanted him to do. we thought the prosecutor that he was trying to get removed was standing in the way of all corruption investigations and we needed corruption invest grea d ininvestigated. we applaud what he did. as opposed to trump saying, lets get rid of the prosecutor whos not bringing charges against joe biden. lets bring in somebody who will do it. let...

President of ukraine which a whistle-blower says was placed into a highly classified computer system accessible to only a small number of officials. tess, what about the lawyers making that decision? >> sure, lawrence. from my perspective, this is very odd and deeply troubling. first, i would just say lawyers from the white house councils office are not usually who make the call about the level of classification of a document or what system that document needs to be stored in. so thats the first...