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The rule. we're going to need the president to put all of his efforts, and the vice president, into crafting a kind of voting bill that will get 50 votes. manchin's put out a kind of white paper just talking points but it's got some good changes in it that could work and i think they also have to include not just the voting rights act but the bill that raphael warnock the senator from georgia has put in that would obviate some of these terrible efforts to enable republican legislatures to overturn election results because they don't like them. put that package together and i think biden can pl...

Trying to get some momentum behind that effort. >> charles: is a controversial effort. by the same token i know in america the death tolls and the years that we've been in afghanistan make many americans believe we cannot win there. certainly we can't win with the approach of just a handful of troops of the time who, for a layman, feel like sitting ducks out there. how do we go about crafting a bill with a terror organization? >> it is tough. 2400 plus u.s. soldiers this year have died. it's a high cost. 18 years. it's interesting could come the russians spent a decade and then they exited bec...

House democrats are trying to build. >> reporter: former special representative to ukraine kurt volker defendd the president's actions in closed-door testimony telling lawmakers there was, quote, no leverage implied. >> there was no linkage. and i think further testimony in depositions will confirm that multiple times. >> we've got text messages from vlker and sondland. >> reporter: volker's private text message the morning of the july 25th call revealed ukrainian officials pushing for a white house meeting. volker, writing to an aide for zelensky, assuming president z convinces trump he will ...

To washington. good luck. on august 9th, sondland messages volker. i think potus really wants the deliverable. going on to suggest volker should ask for the ukrainian president's aid in crafting a, quote, draft statement so we can see exactly what they propose to cover. volker will also appear on tuesday. >> kurt volker, let's remember, is a former career foreign service officer. kurt volker knew what normal foreign policy looks like. >> reporter: the final witness fiona hill is expected to see private interest driving u.s. policy and high stakes into a explosive week of testimony. >> we're ad...

Zelensky, assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail donwn a date for the visit to washington. good luck. on august 9th, sondland messages volker. i think potus really wants the deliverable. going on to suggest volker should ask for the ukrainian president's aid in crafting a, quote, draft statement so we can see exactly what they propose to cover. volker will also appear on tuesday. >> kurt volker, let's remember, is a former career foreign service officer. kurt volker knew what normal policy looks like. >> reporter: the ...