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Impeachable offense, but we want to get the full facts before the american people and we also want to make sure we take corrective action. i want to thank the whistleblower. we still dont know whether this is a subject of the whistleblowers complaint, but i think this single courageous individual may have had the effect of forcing the white house to provide ukraine with this funding knowing that these matters were going to come to light. but this whistleblower has already had a tremendous impact...

Information for the committee to follow up with other witnesses and documents so were well aware of the work that we have to do and i want to thank the whistle blower for coming forward. i think that let this courageous -- what this courageous individual has done has exposed serious wrong doing, and i think it a travesty that this complaint was held as long as it was because it was an urgent matter, it is an urgent matter and there is no basis to keep this from the community. >> reporter: democr...

On anti-corruption. that does not happen via a presidents personal lawyer or asking a foreign country to investigate a political rival. rudy giuliani is throwing the state department under the bus. he was flashing his phone around on fox news last night. hes really undercutting the state departments work. pompeo has stayed very close to president trump. he has had his favor. trump has a decision now as to whether he sticks with rudy mad libbing on tv or whether he tells him to cool it in light o...

But the hostility, the hostility to the facts, the not owning the truth the first time, the suggest about the president in a way that didnt make sense, now theyre dealing with the outcome from that. where does it go? i think its way more uncertain than were hearing from some democrats tonight. >> yeah. but its also obvious when you look at every single response. obviously someone got together and they put out a memo and said, when you respond about the ukraine story, make sure you pivot immediat...

I will tell people that it is deeply disturbing. it reinforces the concerns that what we previously learned and i think it is a blueprint for what we still need to know. it lays out exactly what congress needs to investigate. i think it reinforces two things. the courage of this whistle-blower and the fact that if a whistle-blower is not -- is blocked in the manner in which dlj and the acting dni did, two bad things happen. things leak, which weve unfortunately seen and that is not good. or a wr...

General william barr and rudy giuliani on the matter. we should also note that there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by joe biden in this case. the president then -- we should note how president zelensky responded to say -- to that saying first of all im knowledgeable about the situation since we won majority the next prosecutor general will be my person, my candidate and will be approved by the parliament and will start in september and he or she will look into the company that you mention in ...

Whistle-blower. and its time for the congress to fully investigate the conduct of this president. the president should stop stonewalling this investigation and all the other investigations into his alleged wrongdoing. using its full constitutional authority, congress in my view should demand the information it has a legal right to receive. >> back now with jeff toobin, gloria borger, and david axelrod. jeff, "the wall street journal" reporting eight references to biden in that phone call, in tha...

Said, when you respond about the ukraine story, make sure you pivot immediately to the vice president and his son even though there has been no credible information, anything that came out that showed any wrongdoing. listen, investigate all you want. i think that is right as an american. we should be able to investigate that if there is wrongdoing. but theres been no wrongdoing found, and it is clearly a shiny object because i -- this is me talking. i feel that what the president -- they knew th...

In rationale. dancing around this issue this we can. the question is whether or not this is one of the episodes, anderson we have seen this movie before with, whether the eebts eengts and facts and the what the president said will catch up with him. >> thanks, very much, jim. we have heard very much from the whistleblower attorney a brief statement which reads we applaud the decision to release the whistleblower complaint as it establish that is ultimate lip the lawful whistleblower process can ...

We await the release of the complaint in its totality. with that, lets go to cnns manu raju at the capitol. manu, do we know how the release of this complaint is going to affect the decision to move forward by democrats? >> reporter: we dont know yet because what the democrats announced today was an impeachment inquiry. what they didnt announce was actually voting to impeach the president. that would be presumably the next step. so if the complaint doesnt show any wrongdoing or if the president ...