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Hearings in front of the judiciary committee talking about not just the factual record but the constitutional basis for impeachment, do you yourself in term of thinking about making up your own mind about how you are going to vote and also what you want to be in those articles, do you feel like you know what you need to know or do you feel like there are holes in the record that may materially affect your base level decision here? >> well, you know, it's been amazing how much evidence that we have been able to accumulate in about 75 days. but the bottom line is this: the best witness, the most...

Everyone that rudy giuliani has met with and tweet the exact opposite of things he's tweeted. >> so on that point, i'll come back to you in a second. but on that point i've been reading into some of the characters he's meeting with. and these are some pretty sketchy figures in ukrainian politics. >> absolutely. so one of the people he spoke with is viktor shoekin, who was the prosecutor general in ukraine who when he was in charge was supposed to be running anti-corruption efforts but was actually pretty corrupt himself. and it wasn't just former vice president joe bide wloen said that. it was...

Needs to go. in joe bidens telling after he left office, he really elevated himself. and that's become the base level of this conspiracy theory that shulkin got fired. >> and what's key here you have a bunch of figures basically unknown to the american public but in ukraine have pretty shady reputations that giuliani seems dead set on elevating as the means of defending his client the president. >> absolutely. go from shulkin to his successor who giuliani met with before he got to ukraine, he's the one who spun a bunch of tales former ambassador yovanovitch formed a do not cross list, that she...

Of impeachment. so as it plays out today, we'll be looking for any other updates or indications, but it's hard to imagine that they could close that gap and say that yes, the president now wants to participate on the house side. we'll wait to read it, probably in great detail, based on what pat cipollone wrote in four or five pages the other day. so the white house is certainly talking about impeachment internally, trying to come up with a strategy. looking at how best to position the president to combat all of this, and in one way we'll see some of that today with a focus on jobs. >> reporter...

Bottom of this. we need to understand what role they are deciding to play, especially given the light of the fact that they are going to take money to public disinformation ads from political campaigns. broadcasters are held to a much higher standard. while they cannot discriminate on what kind of advertisements they run, there is a base level of fact checking that must go on. and so for this, in order for him to go far below that standard raises very serious questions about the integrity of the information that people are receivin receiving. >> would facebook make enough mopey to survive if t...