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Losing to russia, losing in the battlefield, being injured or killed. so that's the stakes of why the extortion plot was so strong. and donald trump is someone who is often underestimated. i think by now, americans have learned not to underestimate his sense of how to find people's weakness and exploit it. now, in strategy and politics and business, that can be legal up to a line. in other ways, it has been alleged as potentially over the line. but that's what this is about. donald trump's not an expert on the appropriations process or on the names of ambassadors. he doesn't claim to be. he ce...

Exclusively in heroic terms. he has now left the public eye, having left americans with an image of something perhaps less than that. the mueller report was withering, indeed damning in its findings, but it was written for another era, another time, and american attention span and civic mindedness that we haven't seen around here in generations. because mueller was so by the book, the book that resulted was actually read by very few. the president's bombast and the boost he received from his attorney general worked to in effect prejudge the mueller conclusions and it ended up diminishing the m...

>> first of all, it's a distraction from the impeachment proceedings although i'm not sure that he timed it so carefully as to do that. the main thing he's doing is showing that he's going to have good relations with erdogan, with turkey even though he almost blew it in september and october. you know, all this started and nbc did a great report on this. all this in many ways started at the u.n. general assembly when trump snubbed erdogan completely. he saw a dozen other leaders, couldn't find the time to see erdogan. erdogan insisted on having a phone call, and in that phone call said, i'm go...

We mentioned it a time or two on this broadcast. robert swan mueller iii was revered by those who served under him, spoken of almost exclusively in heroic terms. he has now left the public eye, having left americans with an image of something perhaps less than that. the mueller report was withering, indeed damning in its findings, but it was written for another era, another time, and american attention span and civic mindedness that we haven't seen around here in generations. because mueller was so by the book, the book that resulted was actually read by very few. the president's bombast and t...

Understand, a phone call, an extortion plot, they say. an american president holding back military aid for dirt on his opponent. tomorrow they get to start telling that story. tomorrow's witnesses, state department veterans bill taylor and george kent. then on friday, we hear from former ambassador yovanovich. then next week, it truly becomes relentless. tuesday, jennifer williams, who works for pence, and then lieutenant colonel vindman. then former ambassador volker and former white house aide tim morrison. next wednesday, our eu ambassador gordon sondland, the big trump donor. laura cooper ...