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Branch of the white house and the office of the white house. >> corruption is not the business or it shouldnt be of the white house or anyone in it. >> the white house decides to do what their privileged communications and information is i believe the business of the white house. >> do you believe thats true even if that communication involves crime or fraud? im sure youre aware theres an exception to any claim of privilege. privilege cant be used to conceal crime or fraud. >> any crime or fraud...

Is that something that you would see that should be forwarded to this committee? >> congressman, i dont mean to be disrespectful. its very difficult to answer hypothetical questions. im not sure i understand. >> i wont make it hypothetical. lets say instead of it being a conversation between the president and the president of the ukraine, it was a u.s. senator who was the head of the foreign relations committee and was asking for the foreign leader -- >> i understand. >> would you forward that t...

Matter of this. in the past, as i said before, i have always worked with legal counsel. because of the magnitude and the importance of this decision, i just -- sir, as a naval officer for years, i just thought it would be prudent. >> i understand -- >> i also want to say, if i may, my life would have been a heck of a lot simpler without becoming the most famous man of the united states -- >> no doubt about that. my question is, when considering prudence, did you think it was prudent to give veto...

Ill be co-hosting with our colleagues. starts at 4:00 p.m. eastern. and im going to talk to adam lambert. we may be able to show some of that right here on the beat tomorrow as well. "hardball" with chris matthews is up next. whistling impeachment. lets play hardball. good evening, im chris matthews on capitol hill where the case for impeachment escalated today as the whistle-blowers report landed like a bombshell. the complaint released today portrays a white house that recognized the presi...

People hired by in a man and ask if you can disclose his wrong doing to congress. but beyond that, i mean, just think about what the president is saying. he is basically putting a bulls-eye on anybody who disagrees with him, anybody who has the temerity to step forward and point out that there is egregious wrongdoing. this aint some process conversation, this is about as im sure you have been covering the president leaning on a foreign leader threatening to withhold u.s. aid and asking him to sm...

Happened in ukraine. they say ukraine has it. he then mentioned william barr. i would like to have the attorney general call you or your people and i would like you to get to the bottom of it. trump then brings up rudy giuliani, his personal attorney. quote, mr. giuliani is a highly respected man. i will ask him to call you along with the attorney general. rudy very much knows whats happening. if you could speak to him, that would be great. there is a lot of talk about bidens son, that biden sto...

Share the complaint with the white house and the department of justice run by the presidents lawyer basically. here goes. lets watch. >> did you think it was prudent to give a veto power over whether the congress saw this serious allegation of wrongdoing to the two people implicated by it? >> i have to work with the situation as it is congressman maloney, only the white house can determine or waive executive privilege. theres no one else to go to. >> didnt sound to good the way you questioned hi...

There is a lot of talk about bidens son, that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. note that there is no evidence that either vice president biden or his son, hunter, were guilty of any wrongdoing in ukraine. we also learned tonight that the july call was not the first time the two men had spoken. "the new york times" also reports this, quote, when ukraine elected its new leader on april 21...

Prudent to give a veto power over whether the congress saw this serious allegation of wrongdoing to the two on people implicated by it? is that prudent? >> i have to work with the situation as it is, congressman maloney. only the white house can determine or waive executive privilege. there is no one else to go to. and as far as a second opinion, by only avenue of that was to go to the department of justice office of legal counsel. >> so congressman, you put a fine point on something that i thin...

It was the white house lawyers, lawyers from the white house counsels office that directed it. the direction would have probably gone to staffers on the security council as well as those who maintain the computer systems there as part of the nsc. ben rhodes and others who worked at the nsc can explain that in further depth. i think they realized, oh, my goodness, the president has just committed significant wrongdoing, maybe felonious acts in a phone call with a foreign leader. a lot of people h...