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The president can claim the two weren't tied, right, the aid and the help against the bidens? >> yes. i think the democrats in the house have learned the lesson of sort of the mueller investigation which is to not get overly sort of focused on those very technical statutory criminal elements a president can't be indictmented. their fundamental task in whether or not the president has committed a high crime or misdemeanor is broader. they need to determine for themselves whether the president of the united states has abused his office and violated the law as part of that. there's a lot of focus...

>> connected with this. >> that is undermining america's national security. what was your takeaway from the whistleblower complaint? >> i can just say i know my first hearing question for mayor giuliani, which is going to be could you speak for the whole four hours? >> go. go. yeah. >> but on your point, i can tell you, you know, i was the white house staff secretary. i'm familiar with these kinds of call memorandum. it's an extraordinary thing that first of all the director of national intelligence would say it's executive privilege. no, it's not. it might be classified. but 'it was classifie...

A chance to see some of the highlights from the transcript. >> just skimming through this, i have to say this is much worse than i thought it would be. >> why do you say that? >> i say that for a few specific reasons. one, the whole game here is the mention of vice president biden and his son. it was really a binary, either he did or he didn't. and we had good reason to suspect president trump did, because he essentially said that in his public comments. but to see it in this call memorandum is really striking and i think it brings into sharp relief the fact that president trump as we suspecte...