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Appeared trying to find ways to increase trade with turkey and to get turkey to avoid sanctions that congress wants to slap on the country for buying an advanced russian missile defense system. that was a very strange subplt today, brian, that kind of got buried. but we still have to ask ourselves what is it about this authoritarian turkish leader that president trump seems to admire so much. >> mimi rocah, let me play for you a bit of the attorney general, who was asked today whether he in fact...

And his son hunter biden who served on the board of burisma, a ukrainian energy company. >> the vice presidents role was critically important and top cover to help us pursue our policy agenda. >> but given hunter bidens role in burismas board of directors at some point in your deposition you expressed concern to the vice presidents office. is that correct. >> that is correct. >> reporter: kent was concerned about a perceived conflict of interest but never saw any evidence of wrongdoing and kent ...

Conversation that set off alarm bells in the state department and the white house and now threatens the trump presidency. remember in that rough transcript right after the president of ukraine says hed like to buy more anti-tank missiles from the united states, president trump says, "i would like you to do us a favor, though." then he goes on to ask him to investigate a debunked conspiracy theory, debunked conspiracy theory that ukraine was behind the 2016 election interference, not russia. and ...

Inappropriate. at the very least. and that -- but maybe this does not rise to the level of impeachment. i think theyre better off acknowledging the wrongdoing and then arguing against impeachment. >> do you think theyll do that? do you think theyll somehow go after the character of the witnesses? >> i hope they dont because i think it would be a bad strategy. i dont know all of the background of everybody thats testifying, but certainly taylor and the ones who have been questioned outside of the...

Was behind the 2016 election interference, not russia. and then pushes for an investigation of the bidens even though there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by either the former vice president or his son. ive said it before. it is right there in black and white. it was so disturbing to lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, the decorated army vet, harvard-educated ukraine expert, on the national security council, who was on the call, that he immediately went to the top nsc lawyer, who told him to...

3rd time in the modern u.s. history that the president of the united states is facing the prospect of impeachment and as you said this is the biggest challenge so far to presidents trumps presidency and he has to cry out in korea as politically motivated witch hunts and he said that there was no wrongdoing that his phone call with president of ukraine with president was appropriate that it was perfect but of course many democrats are convinced that it is evidence that president strom abused his ...

This is the 1st chance to defend the president in a public hearing they have a clear strategy there was a memo that was circulated here yesterday so what they want to do is to 1st of all of course undercut the democrats arguments they want to show that to minimize the presidents role in all of that they want to depict the whole investigation in corrie as a political politically motivated witch hunt and they are saying that listen there was no wrongdoing there just just reached a transcript there...

>> it would be completely inappropriate to call the whistle-blower. if we would do something like that, you should throughout the whole concept of protecting people who can come forward to play out wrongdoing in the government. i think would be a terrible precedent, and our sight is willing to entertain the witnesses but they need to bring forward with with this is that makes sense. i know they all werent, you know, cast aside. >> neil: they want hunter biden, but that doesnt look likely. but th...

Zero experience, hunter biden. he was getting paid millions and millions of dollars from ukraine and gas energy giant, burisma holdings. at the same time his father was in charge of u.s.-ukrainian relations for the obama administration. now, hunter must have offered great experience in ukraine. no. energy? nope. oil? none. gas? none. quid pro quo joe wants you to believe there is zero evidence of any potential wrongdoing. what you are about to see is a live. take a look. >> look, i think every s...

The president mentioned the investigations in his july 26 phone call with president zelensky and that of course he would mention it today after. the method from the white house, the democrats have based this entire sham on what amounts to a game of telephone. press secretary stephanie grisham tweeting, "dems star witnesses can provide any firsthand knowledge of any wrongdoing by the president. their own testimony contradicts the dems false quid pro quo narrative. these are essentially two bureau...