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Democrats efforts to establish potential wrongdoing with the presidents action with ukraine. he does say it gives more evidence of obstruction, but he granted that it gets in the way of getting to the bottom of this. and im just curious what the strategy is. it sounds like democrats are still trying to develop a strategy. >> well, i think we are, and i think judiciary had the same problem, we were stonewalled. people refused to comply with subpoenas. weve gone to court on contempt case citations...

Counsel for the whistleblower. they will ultimately hear from the whistleblower. its important to remember, the whistleblower is important because that individual reveals sort of help catch the president. we should understand the president admitted his wrong doing. its confirmed by the transcript of the call released by the white house. obviously corroborated by the whistleblower report. the president has already nitted he attempted to persuade a foreign government to a foreign leader to interfe...

But also remember that we also have to focus on things that actually improve the lives of the american people. because thats what they really want us to do. >> well, part of -- one of the many important questions, one of the many things that is wrapped up in all of this is former vice president joe biden. and while there is no evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of joe biden or his son hunter, this has raised questions about whether family members of a vice president should be sitting on boar...

He has been to italy, britain, he is also working with the australians, all of this based on my experience from the very beginning is that durham has found evidence that likely points to criminal wrongdoing and based on my two decades covering the justice department he is not the type of prosecutor to ask for extra help if there is simply no there there, bret. >> bret: yeah. we will continue to follow it. catherine, thank you. >> you are welcome. >> bret: talk about impeachment and the letter to...

>> and hes trying to do so for one person, which is to somehow potentially retaliate against him or discourage him or her from coming forward and telling their story. thats why in part were doing everything in our power to prevent this whistle-blowers identity from being disclosed, and we also want to commend the whistle-blower and invite others to come forward with evidence of wrongdoing if they are watching right now. >> congressman raja krishnamoorthi, thank you very much. >> thank you, chris...

Prosecutor is not fired, youre not getting the money. well, son of a bitch. got fired. >> it isnt pretty. the swamp hates it. but mr. nice guy wont cut it. it takes a tough guy to change washington. it takes donald trump. >> we should mention there is no evidence of wrongdoing by either joe biden or his son, but right here is where we should also mention thats us saying that. biden chose not to get out ahead of his own story on this, and so the president is filling the void. still with us, charl...

From coming forward and telling their story. thats why in part were doing everything in our power to prevent this whistle-blowers identity from being disclosed, and we also want to commend the whistle-blower and invite others to come forward with evidence of wrongdoing if they are watching right now. >> congressman raja krishnamoorthi, thank you very much. >> thank you, chris. as the president runs around barking the word corruption at every open microphone, we have this that shows rudy giulia...

Washington. it takes donald trump. >> we should mention there is no evidence of wrongdoing by either joe biden or his son, but right here is where we should also mention thats us saying that. biden chose not to get out ahead of his own story on this, and so the president is filling the void. still with us, charlie sykes, bill kristol. hey, bill, do you concur with that, that the president has taken over the telling of joe bidens story for now? >> yeah, hes trying to. i dont know how effective th...

In the last 48 hours, their attempt. they put out this letter, theyre clearly -- we have rudy giuliani says today he will defy the subpoenas, hes not going to goes theyre willing to play ball in the courts on this. they recognize this is a crisis point. this is a real threat. and people ive talked to in the white house who all along felt like most of them felt like they would survive the mueller probe, it was confusing, they were there during the campaign, they didnt see any wrongdoing. and they...

Supporters that congress doesnt actually have oversight over these kinds of matters. that can cause confusion in the public square because in fact, congress does have oversight. >> of course it does. this is exactly what the constitution envisions in a situation like this with serious allegations of wrongdoing, congress is doing its job by going through with the investigation and doing so methodical and thought fulfully it has so far. whats interesting about the presidents tweet about so-called ...