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The administration was keeping donald trump in check. elected bureaucrats and cabinet appointees were never going to steer donald trump in the right direction in the long run or refine his malignant management style. if donald trump is re-elected anonymous predicts the guardrails will be gone entirely and free from the threat of defeat this president will feel doubled down on his worst impulses. heres how anonymous sees the stakes of the 2020 presidential election. we should see trumps acs as fi...

All of us including me as a member of congress understand and we go from there. so what does the intelligence committee include in their report will matter. >> then i also want to ask you your thoughts about the step past impeachment. how does the senate handle this? what should you recommend as house members and specifically ask you about the possibility of censure as opposed to removed from office and your colleague brenda lawrence is one that prefers that over impeachment. thinks thats a bett...

Welcome back to our politics lead. the white house now has one week to decide whether to participate in the judiciary committees impeachment proceedings which kick off next week on capitol hill. as alex marquardt reports this comes as new questions about the testimony of a key witness, one the president claims clears him of any wrongdoing. >> reporter: a new showdown brewing on capitol hill. the chairman of the house judiciary committee jerry nadler this afternoon sending a letter to the preside...

Weve heard various witnesses say that the president believed ukraine is corrupt and wanting investigations of the bidens. and improving relations between the united states and ukraine is one thing but improving relations through the presidents friends and family is an entirely other thing. if the ukrainians have any credible evidence of any kind of wrongdoing, they should be working that through our embassy, they should be working through people like david holmes so it is the channels in which t...

Complaining about excessive partisanship i take it with several grains of salt to say the least. in this case the investigation in question is being conducted by an obama appointee committee and expect her general who is an independent agent. weve seen from his past reports he seems to be a straight shooter, an honest broker, this isnt an investigation is being carried out by political trump appointees. this is being conducted by an independent watchdog whose very job is to investigate wrongdoin...

Drug deal that described rudy giuliani as someone who was going to explode on everybody. officials sent their deputies to the white house counsels office. what is the knowledge of criminality and the knowledge of wrongdoing from the highest levels of the white house, the president say to you? >> it says this looks like almost an organized crime enterprise in which everyone around the boss knows exactly whats going on, and the boss knows whats going on as well, and is hoping that his aides dont f...

It was someone detectives needed to investigate. did you wonder immediately about brittanys ex-husband? >> you know, the ex-husband is always your first suspect. their divorce had not been very pleasant. it was a little bit ugly. >> so detectives questioned brittanys ex-husband terry eldridge. >> terry was looked up by the police and did take a dna sample. >> you have to think about all the different possibilities, you know, could this person have done this, what would have been their reason to ...

Apparently it didnt happen, according to the inspector general report, "the new york times" says. and carrie cordero. i want to start with you. what do you make of the reports of this finding? >> well, ill look forward to reading the full ig report that were still waiting for. but based on the dribs and drabs that are coming out about it, i think the important headline is that, yes, i -- there was a mistake and there was a wrong-doing by one individual and so that person can be handled administr...

Information not from the president but through mulvaney and sondland. the one exception is that there are these direct conversations that were overheard between gordon sondland and the president but republicans have been saying, well, maybe he misinterpreted or its just his word. we havent heard the president say himself that he wanted these investigations. apart from the transcript of the phone call in which he refers to the bidens and crowdstrike server and things like that. so the republicans...

And, in fact, whatever investigations or surveillance took place, was done generally, according to appropriate legal standards, absent what looks like this one instance of wrongdoing which is by an individual, not in evidence of systematic abuse. >> so while it didnt happen, despite the fact we were told multiple times it did. none of us should be holding our breath likely waiting for not only the folks we saw in that tape to say, i was wrong, this didnt happen, but the president either. >> the ...