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Who are registered as republicans, my appeal is to them. which is that i think we all know this is just not right. it's not right. and in so many ways our democracy is being challenged when we have this kind of abuse of power. and framers obviously imaged that there might be this moment, and there should be a check and balance. so my appeal really is to the american people, regardless of who they voted for in the last election, that we should all stand up and say it is not right and it has to end. >> koamala, it is claire. >> hi, claire. >> i thought you were terrific last night. >> thank you....

Is where our democracy goes to die. you cannot not care about this because it matters. and the president should be held accountable. >> congressman sean patrick maloney, thank you very much. we'll be watching to see how this plays out. and still ahead, we're going to talk about last night's democratic debate. one of the moderators, ashley parker, joins us along with former senator clair mccaskill. plus, three of the candidates senator kamala harris, amy klobuchar and mayor pete buttigieg join us. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. >> you said it's wrong to investigate politi...

Planting this idea. >> remember, that conspiracy theory is the one the president directly references in the july 25 phone call to president zelensky, this crowdstrike idea that somehow it was ukraine and not russia that meddled in the direction. so, claire, republicans don't like hearsay, so here is a firsthand witness in fiona hill that was in the meetings that john bolton allegedly called a drug deal, the two white house meetings on july 10th, where ambassador sondland says to the ukrainians, this for that, this for that. a second meeting down stair in the white house. she was there in the r...

Sorry, not sorry. and second, i would say the days of meddling in american elections are over and we will take any undermining of our democratic processes as an act of hostility and aggression. >> all right. 36 past the hour. joining us now, former u.s. senator and now an nbc news and msnbc analysts claire mccaskill. how do you like these hours? >> i feel like i'm on a campaign, no sleep. >> exactly. and white house reporter for "the washington post" and msnbc contributor ashley parker who comoderated last night's democratic debate. i will not congratulate you for four women on the stage becau...

Significant on the substance of what he said and then the last thing i'd point out is there's something on the process because ambassador sondland said over and over again this isn't fair. i don't get my emails, i don't get access to documents and so on, so he's not just helping the democrats' case substantively he's helping it procedurally and saw adam schiff say that to the cameras and say this is obstruction of justice, they should have these folks testify. you know, bolton, pompeo, so on and so on. if they don't it's just like article 3 of the nixon impeachment which was obstruction of jus...