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Including at the top of the hour. You mentioned his meeting with the leader of venezuela, this is one of several one on ones that the president has today. Msnbc happens to be able to be in the room, interacting with the president. One of our teams producers is there. Ill be in the room for the meeting with the president and the leader of ukraine in just a bit. It is now 10 00 and were going to get to breaking news. As this moment is Trump Administration is releasing what the president describes as the transcript of that phone call that launched the democrats impeachment investigation. What we ...

Campaign. He did not do that. And if he abused his power, most likely he would tell president zelensky that he was asking to help his president ial prospects . You would never engage in conduct nor explicitly say, in this case, president zelensky, im going to bribe you now, or im going to ask you for a bribe, or im now going to extort you. This is not the way these things work. Getting back to you, we talked about hunter biden. Hunter biden had been on the board of burisma going back to 2014, correct . Yes. President trump supported ukraine with aid and otherwise in both 2017 and 2018, correct...

We've heard testimony already. mr. trump said to president zelensky that he should speak to two people, his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, and the attorney general barr, correct? >> yep. >> immediately after this call memorandum was released, isn't it the case that attorney general barr and the department of justice issued a statement about his role in all this? >>. >> he did. >> let's put up the statement. slide 13, please. t from the department of justice. the president has not spoken with the attorney general about having ukraine investigate anything related to former vice president biden ...

Important first because she can speak to the view from the ground. about what was actually happening in ukraine whenever giuliani was essentially under taking this freelancing effort on behalf of the president of the united states as private political interest. and effort that efbtly forced her out of her job. and yovanovitch is going to speak to what was actually happening in ukraine. what the president was attempting to pursue through giuliani and the second smear campaign aimed at her. recalled one line in the transcript call memorandum the white house itself released was whatever the presi...

Clearance. it is unusual what was done here. one explanation is this is a consciousness of guilt. there is awareness that there is a problem. obviously it has become on enormous problem. to cover it up, to deep six it in some code word national security database which would never include something as banal as a call memorandum even if it was confidential is a red flag for me. by the way, there is reporting out there that there were other call transcripts put in the database. i would like to know what the reason for that was since it seems to be where you try to hide the president's misconduct....