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Had nothing to do with national security and that such investigations were not something the nsc was going to get involved in or push." few things -- this happening before the call, we're seeing an extended pressure campaign, it sounds like. >> yeah. i think we got to call it what it is, don. it's extortion. what they were seeking was to extort the president of ukraine in exchange for the resumption of military aid and a promised visit with the president of the united states in exchange for digging up political dirt on a prospective political opponent. that's extortion. and obviously a number ...

Testimony that indicates that there was clearly a quid pro quo with respect to both the white house visit and the military aid. >> it's no different than the readout of the call. >> yeah. i mean the most damning evidence is the president's own words. but now we have everybody else validating that. >> and vindman's testimony, the colonel says he twice alerted the lead counsel of the national security council. what should have happened at that point? >> at that point the counsel for the national security council, who i had a similar person reporting to me, should have taken it straight up the ch...

When you hear vindman brought registered objections in internal objections out of quote sense of duty, that's significant certainly a message republicans on capitol hill maybe concerned about. >> very significant for a couple reasons. he's an active military officer who chosen to go testify. that's a big deal. maybe even a bigger deal the fact this is not secondhand information. he was on the call. now we know firsthand the information that we all guessed for a while that trump admitted out loud as did the chief of staff. we have somebody on the call testifying about it. it will be a difficult...

You think about that? he said he did it out of a sense of duty. how damning is this? >> you know, this is a lieutenant colonel in the army, seconded to the national security council. he has no political ax to grind. he's not out to get trump. he's not part of some, you know, deep-state conspiracy. this is a patriotic member of the military who heard something wrong, really wrong, and felt that he was compelled to report it to the legal counsel of the nsc. correct action and further corroboration of the underlying facts. >> i want to read some of vindman's opening statement. he is recounting a ...

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