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The numbers have come along as the process has happened, right? >> yeah. >> as mueller spoke you saw more democrats come out and obviously with this latest revelation with ukraine more democrats came out. the more information that comes out you have more democrats. the other thing that's happened here is some democrats were just sitting on the sidelines waiting on nancy police toe come out with the "i "word, and they were deferential in terms of the entire process so you saw people kind of peeling away and particularly members of the cbc out of respect for nancy pelosi. they hadn't really weig...

Putin whether cybersecurity, metaling in elections the list goes on. that's why congress provided the fund fog the ukrainians. >> you have a reason why you did it. they told you it was held up for interagency process. process pch the president admitted in the past two day that's not true. do you have a problem with that. >> listen i don't have the answer as to exactly why the money was held up. it's not just ukraine it's other countries as well. i do know philosophically the president has held up money to ahiness and states and other organizations in order to better leverage the aid. but befor...

They're not given any answers and they're told there are unspecified concerns from the president. when concerned lawmakers on capitol hill call to say it is part of a review process, they're looking at this aid and not to give any more details. what we are trying to figure out, john, is exactly why the president froze the aid a week before the phone call. the white house officials last night insisted to us repeatedly that it was not a quid pro quo, that it was actually as part of a legitimate review process. but, you know, obviously you see a lot of democrats and others who are questioning, yo...

Inquiry, but again, she stuck pretty closely to the president's own word and this is a president that already admitted this act, this basically trying to pressure a foreign leader to interfear with an american election that would benefit him in that way and that was enough for nancy pelosi and those democrats that come along and say this impeachment inquiry was necessary. >> go ahead. >> i just think it's important to underline the fact that what congress really needs to do and what i think the speaker was alluding to was follow the facts here and where they lead because we're going to spend s...

That would help distribute this aid on the why. >> it wasn't clear to them. they're saying it was this interagency process. really what we're described to by sources is it started in the west wing and there wasn't a lot of communication to the pentagon to capitol hill, to other people, why they were freezing this in particular. that's why when you saw them release it, it caught them off guard. didn't sound like ukraine was getting this aid which we should remind people is how they protect themselves from russia. >> there were a number of people saying why is this being held up. now listen to w...