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Address so combative or newsworthy. these kind of legal addresses arent usually in the news at all. and critics are pointing to the typing amidst reports that impeachment has strained his relationship with trump, that barr reportedly declined to give a press conference clearing trump of any ukraine wrongdoing, and after cameras caught barr having what looked like at least an animated discussion through the windows of the white house, you see it right there. i am joined by dania perry, who is a f...

Will sway still persuadable independents and republicans. but with only 21% of americans say they follow the hears very closely, how do democrats plan to sell impeachment to an audience that might be largely ignoring it? to be fair though, 58%, that is a lot of big numbers, say they are following it somewhat closely or very closely. a lot of folks watching. joining mekong man jamcongressm jamie raskin. nancy pelosi just sent a letter to everybodykong man congressma jamie raskin. nancy pelosi jus...

President decided to weigh in in the middle of her public testimony the president tweeted this, everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in smaomalia, h did that go. it is a u.s. presidents absolute right to appoint ambassadors. intelligence committee chair adam schiff called it witness intimidation, but president trump argued that it was freedom of speech. heres how it all played out. >> the president implicitly threatened you in that call record, and now the president in r...

Was not advised by counsel in deciding to do this tweet. extraordinarily poor judgment. the president frequently says i follow my instincts. sometimes we have to control our instin instincts. obviously i think this was quite injurious. i dont think it rises to the level of intimidation of a witness. >> the white house criticized the yovanovitch hearing arguing that her testimony presented no evidence of wrongdoing by the p president. white house press secretary stephanie grisham put out a statem...

And it was friday that the president upended his partys strategy during the public hearing with former ambassador marie yovanovitch. democrats called his tweets that you see right there witness intimidation in realtime. >> what effect do you think that has on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, its very intimidating. >> joining me now is presidential historian and msnbc contributor jon meacham. and mr. meacham, every day as you well know in the trump admin...

Has on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, its very intimidating. >> designed to intimidate, is it not? >> i mean, i cant speak to what the president is trying to do, but i think the effect is to be intimidating. >> so congresswoman, youre on the house judiciary committee which will ultimately draft or not draft the articles of impeachment. it seems to me that chairman schiff is saying that might be in the articles of impeachment. its wince intimidation. d...

And center. former u.s. ambassador of ukraine marie yovanovitch told lawmakers on friday about the smear campaign against her and even as she was testifying, president trump hurled insults at her on twitter as house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff pointed out. >> now the president in realtime is attacking you. what effect do you think that has on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, its very intimidating. >> time now for cross exam. cnn legal an...

First day was dull, it was a slog. so lets go to moment when democratic chairman adam schiff read the tweet or part of the tweet to witness, marie e yovanovitch, and well see her response. >> what effect do you think that has on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, its very intimidating. howard: she, of course, was abruptly recalled from kiev by the president. so is this the kind of moment that breaks through the media static? this. >> its unclear to me yet...

Chairman nadler is going to allow that. i dont think they will allow that, they should and i think thats unfortunate. its another reason why this will be dead on arrival in the senate including adam schiff will not be testifying. >> im going to speak with doug collins in just a few minutes and ask him about that pre-but it struck me because i guess thats what he can say we have not seen the whistleblower, we dont know who the whistleblower is and then a couple weeks later we found out my staff d...

>> on friday, the president attacked the former ambassador to ukraine on twitter as she was testifying. everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia. how did that go? then fast forward to ukraine. >> now the president in real time is attacking you. what affect do you think that has on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, its very intimidating. >> i have the right to speak. i have freedom of speech, just as other people do. >> yov...