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They don't want to leave stones unturned knowing this is the one big shot on impeachment. it's a very long way of saying still nobody knows. they would like to get this done fast, but there is no deadline. there is no hard cap in which this process will stop. >> the president used a racistrope to try to express grievance of the day. more importantly, are they aware of how damaging the testimony appears to be? >> we'll wait for him to weigh in later. i was just talking to some officials moments ago. they seem more concerned with the process and the timing that garret is talking about than the a...

It seems as though the investigators are bracketing in these conversations, they're getting closer and closer. that really only works if you have good visibility. and the big question here is what will happen when nsc officials are called to testify? they were supposed to do it later this week because the funeral arrangements. that will be next week. tim morrison, they were at the center of the white house version of these conversations. we're getting a really good readout of what's happened in ukraine and the europe yn union. we don't have the white house version just quite yet. that's an ope...

Everything he was involved in really throughout his career provided the back bone to this testimony to the point where i think we are seeing this as almost a pattern here. no one is questioning the vorasity of anything that he's said. what we have seen in the last few days and even more pronounced is republicans who are trying to poke holes in the inquiry are focussing exclusively on the process. no one has said anything that any witnesses have said including some witnesses for whom they had prepared talking points have come out to try to discredit the witnesses. it has been talking about adam...

Leaving, and americans are evacuating our bases, bombing them as we leave or handing them over to the russians. and putin and erdogan will meet on tuesday, and that's really the main show in town. so i think that assessment is quite accurate. >> larry, who would ordinarily be advising the president ahead of decisions like this? give us a sense of how the administration might have gotten to this deal. >> so, in a normal administration, you have an interagency process where experts, guys like brett mcgurk or people like fiona hill on the russian side, people who are steeped in expertise, these i...

Broken down the trump foreign policy making process is. by the way, this is not just a ukraine story. i think you see the exact same thing happening with respect to this decision on syria, where instead of having an interagency process where the president sits in the white house situation room next to a secretary of defense, next to a secretary of state and the entire members of the nsc, he's sitting in his residence on the phone, based on his intuition or personal interests is a way to conduct foreign policy. i think it's a complete disaster for american national security interests. whether i...