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His impression came from gordon sondland. the ambassador to the eu. the issue right now is can democrats connect this directly to the president? republicans say they cant. democrats say the entire picture makes it almost impossible for it not to have come from the president. thats what were going to see play out in those public hearings next week. >> the alternative is believing that gordon sondland and others were doing this freelance against the presidents wishes or without his direction and f...

Complaint none of this will be going on. >> bill: rand paul blocking a senate resolution giving support to government employees who speak out on corruption. wisconsin senator ron johnson chair of the homeland security and government affairs committee. welcome back here and good day to you. where do you think this is going among your colleagues with regard to the whistleblower? >> well, first of all i really do believe the whistleblowers deserve protection against retaliation. it is very importan...

Wasnt? >> martha: the whistleblower issue with regard to adam schiff is a big one here. >> right. >> martha: you said you believe this process cant go forward until the whistleblower is known and questioned in some way, shape or form. a lot of stories out there about who this person is and it all seems to be coming from one source so were hanging back on this but there are indications that this person may have worked in the n.s.c., may have worked in the obama administration and been a holdover....

Inauguration day for the morning before donald trump took the oath of office, the impeachment drive has already begun. the democrats have been looking for a pretext to impeach before he took the oath of office. they thought he was going to but he cleared him of any wrongdoing or conspiracy with russia and so trump had an opportunity at that point to have an inflection point in his presidency to prevent and claim that victory and instead, he made the awful mistake of asking the president of ukrai...

In the u.s. >> the complaint also alleges twitter employees provided private information like email addresses, ip addresses, and dates of birth. and back in sessions? former attorney general jeff sessions planning to run for his old senate seat in alabama. but can he win the republican nomination despite the opposition of his former boss, president trump? >> the attorney general thanks im going to recuse myself. if i had one do-over, i would not have appointed jeff sessions to be my attorney g...

To hold a press conference when the transcript of the phone call with the president of ukraine came out and have him simply absolve donald trump of any wrongdoing. >> thats exactly right, lawrence, it is a completely inappropriate thing for a president to ask an attorney general to do. but you could see why trump would do it and actually follow through and grant that request given that this is basically what barr did around the release of the mueller report, where he held a press conference and ...

They seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo. >> lindsey graham. hes perhaps the best individual example of these contortions because his willingness to examine evidence of wrongdoing has now yielded to unwavering support of the president despite the evidence. >> if you could show me that, you know, trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing. im not going to read these transcripts. the whole process is a joke. im not going to entert...

Holding a news conference that the attorney general was supposed hold to say that the president had not broken any laws. the tweets slamming "the washington post" from the president began just before the story broke last night and have continued today, even as house democrats are questioning a top foreign policy adviser to the vice president, jennifer williams. meanwhile, a no-show today, former national security adviser john bolton. more on that coming up. joining me now, nbc news white house c...

Declaring that president trump had broken no laws in his phone call with the president of ukraine. william barr didnt do it, and "the washington post" reports that donald trump has privately complained that, quote, he wished barr would have held the news conference. joining us now is matt miller, former spokesperson for the attorney general eric holder and an msnbc contributor. matt, not surprising, its one of those trump stories where it is both shocking and not surprising of course, of course....

Off. you know, at the end of the day, this is kind of a seminal moment in the leadership of both mcguire and hasball. >> so you can, without defending the whistle-blowers actions or arguing that you think they did the right thing, you can defend the process by which a whistle-blower comes through. and i would imagine that hasball and all intelligence leaders should be able to subscribe to the idea that there should be a process by which people who see wrongdoing should be able to report it. >> t...