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Air taking the oath. we're going to have the facts laid bare in front of the american people, and this is going to get worse for these guys especially in the purple states. it's not going to get better. >> claire mccaskill, thank you for your time tonight. let me start by playing what kicked this off as i understand it which was a sort of fascinating moment right after the president released his call notes. he dragged the vice president into it. even the vice president has been intimately involved in bilateral relationship with ukraine from the jump. take a listen. >> i think you should ask fo...

In public. >> right. >> now we're going to have public hearings. we're going to have people with their hand in the air taking the oath. we're going to have the facts laid bare in front of the american people, and this is going to get worse for these guys, especially in these purple states. it's not going to get better. >> claire mccaskill, thank you for your time tonight. that was great. >> you bet. >> i want to bring in now nbc news correspondent carol lee. let me start by playing what kicked this off as i understand it which was a sort of fascinating moment right after the president released...

Prison. he's not like writing briefs going before a court. the president has new lawyers to do that. the lawyers take care of that. rudy giuliani is just a fixer with a law degree, and he has apparently been tasked with a pretty clear mission by the president which is to manufacture dirt on my political enemies so that i can get re-elected. instead of running a foreign policy for the people of the country that represents our collective interests, donald trump and rudy giuliani are running and have been running a shadow foreign policy that has nothing to do with the interests of the united stat...

Disparities. it's been pentagon lawyer, ryan goodman. the whistleblower's memo says that trump claimed the crowd strike, you remember that company? he says that was a ukrainian company. the white house call notes just say, crowd strike, dot, dot, dot. the whistleblower also wrote that trump urged the ukrainian president not to fire the prosecutor but the white house call notes don't say that at all. in fact, they just say, quote, he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it, again, dot, dot, dot. so the big question tonight is this. it's all being raised by this memo. did the white ho...

And we now have presidential communications, public statements, call notes, state department text messages, the official testimony. all of it paints this damning portrait of this president abusing his power. this is not a circumstantial case. this is evidence. this is straightforward. let's get to the latest of what we're learning this afternoon. i have ken dilanian, hallie jackson, geoff bennett. and jeff, i should start with you since that's where we had new testimony today. apparently more on his handling of the whistle-blower complaint than perhaps his initial investigation to sort of conf...