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I thought the threat to our nation was wellarticulated earlier today by Professor Feldman when you said, if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy, we live in a monarchy or we live under a dictatorship. My view is that a people cannot depend on the fairness of will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponent and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposed...

Elite and criticized for failing to bring corruption cases. senator cruz yesterday also mischaracterized president trump's july 25th phone call with the leader of ukraine. >> there's a difference between foreign interference of the kind russia did, which was hacking into the election creating fraudulent bots, actively trying to deceive people, and law enforcement investigation into corrupti corruption. we cooperate with law enforcement, with countries all over the earth, and one of the central issues right at the heart of this discussion is on the face of the transcript with zelensky what pres...

President zelensky. however, based on the transcripts released on those calls in april and july, president trump never mentioned these points of corruption. he never mentioned the word corruption. does that go to any of these factors with that significance? >> yes, it goes to the one about procedural irregularities and the things that led up to the decision that you figure this mode >> ambassador volker testified that the president never made comments to him about corrupti corruption. >> it goes to the factor about factor about substantive departures. >> professor karlan come up it goes to the...

Aide was linked to something and he admitted he didn't even know why he was presuming that. this is good for the president because the transcripts that were released today show exactly what the president has been saying all along. >> if you look at the timeline, and he presumed that they were being tied to the ukraine making a statement about any corrupti corruption. on september 1st in warsaw, he told ukrainian officials what he was thinking and then told tim morrison about it. when he talked to investor taylor about it eight days lat later, he called president trump to ask what was really go...

Drag a lot more of them down with him. >> the reason i ask you the question is on "meet the press" -- we've done a lot of information about what happened. i fully agree that one doesn't want to make decisions based on half the information and it would be very simple, rick, for the white house or the justice department to not prevent congress from getting the necessary information and, as jennifer says, the whistleblower complaint. but chuck todd was talking to pennsylvania senator republican pat toomey. let's just listen to what his response was. >> i don't know what the conversation was. >> i...