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All right. the stalemate over the senate impeachment trial showing no signs of a breakthrough. sources tell cnn the president is growing increasingly frustrated over the impasse. it comes as the new york times reports new behind the scenes details and that s underselling what they ve done here, about the white house decision to hold up military aid to ukraine. joining us now, one of the journalists behind the extraordinary report. mark misetti. this is a terrific story going into the 84 days you say. and the message sent here is how long, how involved, and how much i think a sense there was a problem from the very beginning. one quote here. this is from mick mulvaney, an exchange here. i m just trying to tie up some loose ends, mulvaney wrote. ....
Crucially, whether or not the trump campaign was in on it, right? to the point where they had advanced knowledge of what the russians were doing before anybody knew about it publicly. i mean, that supposedly was the catalyst for the fbi starting its investigation of whether the trump campaign colluded with russia. if it hadn t been for that drunk kid in the bar flapping his jaws. well, that young guy is now on his way to prison, and on his way to prison, he is now saying no, actually, that didn t happen, or at least i don t remember that happening. so reconsider that story. new york times reporter mike misetti released audio excerpts of his interview on this subject with george papadopoulos today at the website of the new york times. we ve got a clip from that here. what you re going to hear in this clip is the actual interview from mark misetti from the times and george papadopoulos. but interspersed with that is mark misetti sort of narrating it a little bit so you can follow w ....