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Freedom of information act lawsuits and news reporting, you may assume the documents that are being withheld would probably incriminate the president. Otherwise, why wouldnt he have provided them . If he had a legitimate executive privilege claim he could follow the rules and make each claim. Instead he just said no, no to everything. By midjuly, the president had put a hold on all the money. Jennifer williams, special adviser to Vice President pence for europe learned about the hold on july 3. She said it came out of the blue and had previously been discussed by omb or the National Security c...

Deal and a happy occasion to congratulate and thank and honor and, again, celebrate our veterans, so happy veterans day. Even though today is a federal holiday and a big one, the news cycle did not skip a beat, either. We are steaming, of course, toward the start of the first public impeachment hearings on the ukraine scandal the day after tomorrow. Wednesday morning. And theres a lot to catch up on in terms of that scandal and the developments around impeachment as we head toward that public hearing. It feels like its kind of piling up with each passing hour, so lets just lets just jump right...

Michael, is that there was another instance of aid being withheld from ukraine. the concern at that point when that aid was withheld was that russia basically didn't like it. this, according to catherine kroft, a state department official who revealed this, two quotes for you. in a briefing with mr. mulvaney, acting chief of staff, the question centered around the russian reaction. mull vein nir was concerned, quote, that russia would react negatively to the provisions of javelins to ukraine javelins being missiles that were to be sent to ukraine. should russia have been a consideration at all...

On military assistance got to the ukrainians and two ukrainian officials reached out to you quietly to ask you about this hold." kroft answers, "yes, that's right." question, "now, you said the two ukrainian embassy officials, understood they had no interest in this becoming public. is that right?" answer "that's correct, that's correct." "question, why would they not want this to become public? answer, "if this were public in ukraine, it would be seen as a reversal of our policy and would, to say candidly and quoek wa cloak wally, this would be a really big deal." question, so as long as they...

Question, what was the concern around the russian reaction? answer, that russia would react negatively to the provision of the javelins to ukraine. question, what was the reaction of that concern to the orther e agencies? answer, i don't know if i can provide that answer in an unclassified setting. question, is it --. answer, i can say all the policy agencies were in support. question, you mean in support of providing the javelins? answer, kroft, yes, correct. joining us now, illinois congressman mike quigley. sir, thank you very much for joining us. i appreciate you being here. >> thank you, ...