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Lifetime retirement income from tiaa doesn't. guaranteed monthly income for life. nooooo! we are back with the breaking news. testimony from another witness in the impeachment investigation into donald j. trump. msnbc's garrett haake has been reading in for us. what are your takeaways? >> reporter: well, cooper really expands the net here of people who knew what was going on and were totally confused by. she describes a series of meetings in the pentagon and elsewhere where first it's conveyed that the chief of staff doesn't want this money to go out. and that's unusual. and then there is a ...

This. so if i were president, i'm not going to be president, i would call someone like brett mcgurk. but he was obviously not phoned in advance of this stuff. that just stood out to me as how hastily this thing came together. then finally the thing i would have asked him is have you heard from anyone on the hill? they are clearly enraged at what's going on, and they have a design to sort of reelback this whether it's through some formal statement. has he heard from anyone on the hill? i kind of want to know if they are backchannelling to him to get a sense of what they can do to repair this po...

Election. republicans have said some objectives include emphasize on pressure for democrats to deliver, pressing mueller on anti-trump texts among fbi officials and focuses on the origins of the russia probe including use of the carter page fisa warrant. doug collins says the expectations are entirely on the democrats to deliver and ranking house intelligence committee member devin nunes suggesting this week that mueller may already be coordinating with democrats. watch. >> i'm concerned that mueller doesn't purposely try to create a narrative and that he's not working with the democrats alrea...

Issued their report. they were not obstructed. so that makes it more difficult. >> i want the get in the house intel committee ranking member, devin nunes. he has the concern ahead of mueller's testimony. let's watch. >> i fear what is going on right now, mueller is working with his staff that are back channelling to the democrats. it's very possible that mueller is going to have a few little sound bites that are going to give the democrats exactly what they want. >> do you agree with that? >> i think we've seen when mueller has had the opportunity in the report and in his prior statement to b...

Failure on the prosecution. that key witness is so terrible and so self destructive that they self emulate. that will be the prosecutors fault. >> i don't want to go down this rabbit hole too far, but the fact that manafort at sometimes was double dealing, a cooperation agreement with mueller, back channelling with the president's lawyers, is that -- at what point is that obstruction in your mind? >> it is definitely bad conduct and i guess it is possibly obstruction. people forget that paul manafort was convicted to one trial and then pled guilty to what they thought would be a cooperation ag...