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Investigation, while it found there was insufficient evidence to prove that there was a conspiracy, did determine there were as many as 140 contacts between the trump campaign and russia and found that there were ten instances of possible obstruction by president trump. and so there were real findings that were yielded from that trump which complicates of theory that this investigation was purely politically motivated. so president trump right now speaking on the white house south lawn before he departs, andrea, so far it doesn't seem like he's been asked about this specifically, but we'll let...

Suspicions, his theory, or is there something more going on? do we know who is being investigated? >> well, it has certainly opened up president trump to that type of criticism, andrea. particularly you have jerry nadler saying this is essentially the president using the justice department to attack his political enemies. i put that question to mark short, who is of course the chief of staff for vice president mike pence, who disputed that that's what's happening here. but it does fit into the fact that president trump has been calling for this to happen for years, referring to the mueller inv...

Conversations that were taking place here about ukraine, about those investigations that president trump was asking for. we know that he wasn't on that july 25th phone call. but certainly you would anticipate that the administration, the white house, would be concerned if he were among those going to capitol hill to testify. tim morrison, one of the russia advisers here, who we believe was on that phone call, those are the reports, we don't have that confirmed ourselves, but all signs point to the fact that he is going to be testifying as soon as next week. so both of those testimonies could b...

Require him to be knowingly going along with that. there are reasons for concern but there are also reasons for us to do what we're not very good at which is to stay tuned and recognize there is so much we don't understand about what's going on here. >> a lot we don't understand, we should not be jumping to conclusions. but kristen welker, it has to be alarming to the democrats running this impeachment inquiry that a whole other criminal investigation to some of the former officials who were front and center in the univer universally-accepted conclusions of the russia probe. and key to this mi...

That you see authoritarian leaders use across the globe. it creates joifgds fustificatio leaders to dismantle institutions and i'm concerned that's what we see at this point. >> trump is basically saying, if you choose to serve the united states government, you're an enemy of the country. it's outrageous, but that's what he's saying. you're an enemy of the country if you work for the country. >> what does a strong country consist of? it's got to have not just a strong man at the top but strong independent institutions. that's national strength. that serve the president and the elected leaders ...