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Were not expecting gordon sondland to testify to what he testified to earlier today. the president latching on to those comments as you saw just a short while ago. but remember what gordon sondland said during his testimony. that everyone was in the loop. this was not a secret. the president is trying to make the case tonight i think, wolf, that everybody was in the loop but himself. wolf. >> that is an important point indeed. stand by over there at the white house. evan, the president was denying any quid pro quo in that phone conversation with gordon sondland. shortly after the whistle-blowe...

It. the way you do that is to begin an impeachment i inquiry. >> i would love to ask one of your republican colleagues about this but we don't have one on the show today. >> not to mention they're all hiding behind the president. >> can you give us insight on any conversations you may have had with your republican colleagues? we have seen mitt romney tweet out he's greatly concerned. >> we're supposed to feel grateful one republican, who ran for president no less, expressed deep concern. i would like to see him come in with other colleagues and step out of the shadows and do their jobs. we're ...

It. it just felt wrong. it felt like there was definitely government overreach. >> reporter: ruiz was stopped near this spot in mid-december. >> they asked me what my opinion was on the administration, just generally. and how we were doing economically. >> that is wildly inappropriate. >> reporter: a former top lawyer for the department of homeland security acknowledges authorities do have the right to stop people. >> but to the except they're making enforcement decisions based on political views or views of policy or the trump administration or even your views of the legitimacy of these carav...

Crystallized, but these were comments that caused us deep concern. they were especially troubling, especially to two people who were sent down there to talk about sanctions and whether they had been used for intelligence gathering by the russians. it was a head-spinning and dumbfounding moment. it caused us all to step back and engage in a question that i think bedevils the intelligence community to this day. and that is, how do you get effective intelligence and information to this president? how do you get his attention? how do you get him to consume these products in a way to help him make ...

>> yeah, the president's remarks in the room were along the lines of, i don't understand why we're not looking at venezuela. why are we not at war with venezuela? they have all the oil and they're right on our back door. so i can't put myself in the president's mind, i can't say how clearly his intent were crystallized, but these were comments that caused us deep concern. they were especially troubling, especially to two people who were sent down there to talk about sanctions and whether they had been used for intelligence gathering by the russians. it was a head-spinning and dumbfounding mome...