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After it was attacked as a pipe dream by fellow democrats. welcome to the lead. i'm jake tapper. we begin with some breaking news. a shocking admission from the white house today. an admission that aid to ukraine was in fact tried to president trump's push to help ukraine lily. specifically to investigate what tom bos erat has called a debunked conspiracy theory that ukraine, not russia, interfered in the 2016 election. mick mulvaney confirmed the quid pro quo this afternoon. >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. we were holding up money at the same time for what was it, the northern...

In the white house, an assault weapons ban has virtually no chance of being signed into law before 2021. nearly 200 house democrats are backing legislation to reinstate the ban, which is not enough to even pass the house and voting on such a measure would be politically ricky for vulnerable moderates. with us to talk about it, david jolly, a former republican member of congress from the state of florida who has since left the house and since left his political party. so, david, let's put it this way. right now you can have impeachment in regular or diet. we're having diet, apparently, the sing...

Reasoning, to protect moderate democrats from casting a very eventful vote because, after all, if you want to stay in the majority, everybody and more has to get reelected every two years. >> look, that's absolutely true, and impeachment is a good analogy. but i would say the complaints should not be with those swing districts, it should be with james madison and if the house doesn't want to do its job. i would say this for those whose priority is an assault weapons ban right now in this environment, if a democratically controlled how else of representatives cannot pass a ban in this environme...

Chance of being signed into law before 2021. nearly 200 house democrats are backing legislation to reinstate the ban, which is not enough to even pass the house and voting on such a measure would be politically ricky for vulnerable moderates. with us to talk about it, david jolly, a former republican member of congress from the state of florida who has since left the house and since left his political party. so, david, let's put it this way. right now you can have impeachment in regular or diet. we're having diet, apparently, the single calorie impeachment. a lot of people say for the reason t...

So the government seemed to be casting a pretty wide net. and they -- the reaction by both mr. cohen's lawyers and mr. trump's lawyers in court with regard to their concerns about privilege would indicate that it was all being taken quite seriously. >> and as you report in this new york times article, william, mr. freedman was disbarred earlier this month, and he had been accused and i'm reading from the article of failing to pay more than $5 million in taxes. he faced four counts of criminal tax fraud, one of grand larceny, all b felonies carrying a maximum prison sentence of up to 25 years i...