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Murray, thanks to both of you. Thanks for watching our msnbc special. Find me on weeknights. Its the beet, 6 00 p. M. Eastern. It started as a 30minute phone call between two president s. It erupted into a fullscale scandal that now threatens to bring down donald trump. Today im announcing the house of representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. Our president sacrificed our National Security and our constitution for his personal political benefit. Theyve been trying to impeach me from the day i got elected. And you know what . They failed. Youve seen the headlines. ...

Trump-appointed u.s. attorney that launched this investigation five years ago to get full context. we have pieces and we need to see the evidence and the full picture. >> emily: the 1023 used to not be redacted, we did have the picture. >> kevin: the trump doj evaluated it and declined to engage on because much hearsay conversation within the 1023. then the burisma executive recanted quite a bit of it. >> emily: felonies and misdemeanors. >> if we didn't have republicans in the house, we wouldn't know about the 1023, wouldn't be hearing from the whistleblower, or about the 1023, wouldn't be he...

>> so there's plenty of key moments in the transcripts released this week, alayna. but this hit on a theme. george kent said the president wanted to hear three words from ukraine's president -- biden, clinton and investigation. what does this say to you about what we're going do see next week? >> i think it says it shows exactly what democrats are hoping that the american public can clearly hear from these witnesses. that the president very much did want a public commitment from ukraine about investigating not just corruption in general, but key things, including burisma, which hunter biden wa...

Zelensky publicly committed to investigate both y burisma and president trump's baseless theory about ukraine meddling in the 2016 election for hillary clinton. without it? no access to president trump. as relayed in a whatsapp message between u.s. envoy volker and andre yurmak, the same day as the phonesa call.th volker -- >> assuming the president convinces trump he'lles ce investigate, goat the bottom of what happenede, in 2016, we wil nail 2 down a date for a visit washington. >> in another message, two weeks after the call, yermak seemed to know what was required for his president zelensk...

You listen and decide. what's your reaction to the fact that this new prosecutor has been put in place to reopen this case including burisma. >> thank god. the fact is this case was closed in october of 2016 right before the presidential election by pressure from joe biden, a bribe. if they reopen it and they do a thorough investigation that might lead to the president of ukraine who may have been paid to do this. the reality is that this has to be investigated. what democrats have been doing for two and a half, three years is covering it up. a lot of what they are doing with this impeachment ...