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Senate and this is a way for history to reflect that this president and any president from now on, this is unacceptable and we will not tolerate it and we will say as the checks and balances in our government that we did our job and that was my -- my call to the republicans in the senate. >> certainly, i think you made it clear here and i appreciate your time, congresswoman. thanks as always. >> thank you so much. >> out front next. breaking news. democrats are releasing two new impeachment transcripts we've never seen before and we're finding out tonight that before anyone in congress or the ...

First the breaking news. democrats releasing a trove of impeachment transcripts. trump and his defenders holding money to ukraine. the president's acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney had the office of management and budget put a hold missiles because they were concerned that russia would react negatively to the provision of-and-a-half ly jave ukraine. all other parts of the u.s. government involved in the javelin deal supported it. we're learning christopher anderson, a career foreign officer testified the president's special envoy to ukraine believed rudy giuliani was an obstacle to improvin...

>> president trump and lindsey graham pretty much on the same page, but when graham said he's not reading the pages of impeachment transcripts -- >> the whole process is a joke. >> the jokes flew. it was compared to sticking fingers in your ears, especially since last month the senator said -- >> if you could show me that, you know, trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing. >> hard to be disturbed if you won't read the transcripts. >> i would just summarize the transcripts in three little words, okay? lindsey, don't look away, lindsey....

>> reporter: president trump and senator lindsey graham pretty much on the same page, but when graham said he's not reading the pages of impeachment transcripts -- >> i'm not going to read the transcripts, the whole process is a joke. >> reporter: t-- the jokes flew. la, la, la, like sticking fingers in your ear. last month he said -- >> if you can show me the president was engaged in a quid pro quo outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing. >> reporter: hard to be disturbing if you don't read to transcripts. >> i will summarize the transcripts in three little words. lindsey, don't...

>> reporter: president trump and senator lindsey graham pretty much on the same page, but when graham said he's not reading the pages of impeachment transcripts -- >> i'm not going the read these transcripts. the whole process is a joke. >> reporter: the jokes flew. la la la. it was compared to sticking fingers in your ears, especially since last month the senator said -- >> if you could show me that trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing. >> reporter: hard to be disturbed if you won't read the transcripts. >> i will just summarize t...