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To any attempt for this president to sort of malign his predecessor, president obama, who of course was the vice president's boss. >> nick burns, it is a foreign policy victory, if you will, for donald trump. he's already using it on the stump. what about the way he's taking credit and really trying to diminish the capture and killing of osama bin laden? >> well, andrea, certainly i think we should congratulate -- personally i think we should congratulate president trump for ordering this mission against baghdadi. it was the right thing to do. but the president, of course, as he offense does, ...

Certainly has weakened us by withdrawing u.s. special forces from syria and given a victory to the russians, the turks, and the assad government in the process. >> nick, as well, i don't know if you know alexander vindman, this national security council official, had been the attache working in the moscow embassy. how difficult a position is this for an ongoing military aide in the nsc, to be giving such explicit testimony undercutting the president's position today? >> this was a powerful moment, andrea. and i think you have to think that the floodgates have opened here. it began with ambassa...

Implications for the u.s. government's support for ukraine. geoff bennett on capitol hill, the impact of vindman's opening statement overnight has been so profound for the white house and both ends of pennsylvania avenue. what are you seeing and what are you hearing? >> reporter: house investigators, andrea, are getting a key piece of evidence from lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. as you mentioned, he's an army officer assigned to the national security council. his opening statement tells house investigators that he listened in on the july 25th call in question between presidents trump an...

Comments, suggesting that this is a bigger deal tha and suggesting that this is something you and president obama left to him to do? >> oh, my god, this man is amazing. look, bagdadi was a bad man, no redeeming value. he killed a lot innocent people. and he's responsible for more killing. to compare one to the other -- the things i compare are the incredible special forces we have and the risks they take and their incredible capacity. these -- the thing i do know, andrea, whether it's baghdadi or bin laden, it takes months and months of detailed planning. and the idea in the reports that are c...

Enforcement. so what's actually being done to stop russia? what's being done to protect our elections? i want to bring in andrea kendall taylor, former cia analyst at the national intelligence council. she's now a senior fellow at the center for new american security. andrea, thanks for your time. let's start with the big picture. what does it tell you that these campaigns found out about a specific russia operation from folks like me, through the media? >> yeah, i mean, it just raises the importance of more communication and coordination between all key stakeholders in the election. so increa...