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They don't with the want to be the record because they can see the ads in the district in michigan where the president won by 7%. >> some of them are coming out publicly they support the inquiry, right. >> i think what's noteworthy and what could be problematic is for republicans. in the house. because they're the ones who are going to have to be on record if their republican letteredship are successful enough in pushing for the vote. they have to be on record even before there could be an actual vote on articles of impeachment which could be politically dicey for them depending on where they ...

We should remember legally you don't have to establish a criminal for there to be impeachable offense. ultimately trump has only one direction to go, which is the executive privilege defense. that would be weakened if there was a criminal case going on. in nixon let's remember it was a criminal case. unlikely to happen here with barr head of the justice department. but it doesn't have to be a full charged criminal offense for it to be impeachable. there is evidence here for the impeachment inquiry. >> mark mazeti i want to draw attention to another text. again getting to the military assistanc...

Ukraine underscore how trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani was involved in setting up the july 25th phone call between the two leaders. one text from volker to the u.s. ambassador to the eu reads quote had breakfast with rudy this morning. teeing up equal yermak. must have helped. most important for zelensky to say he will help investigation and address specific personnel issues if there are any. let's bring back our analyst cana bash and mark mazzetti. mark, specific personnel issues. that's notable there because of course the president fired the u.s. ambassador a longtime diplomat to ukr...

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Let's analyze all of this, as this is pretty, pretty huge. this just dropped on us this afternoon. with me now, cnn national security analyst, mark mazeti, and former spokeswoman for the u.s. mission to the united nations and for the treasury department, welcome to both of you. and mark, let me just start to you first on your reaction to this forthcoming report from the saudis. >> i think it's actually not surprising that the story is evolving this way. as you said, there have been flat denials in the beginning that they knew the whereabouts, they knew his fate. and now the story has evolved t...