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Pompeo's need to be close to president trump and support him in every way has caused him to give up the integrity that i think is an essential element to being a successful leader. i'm afraid that secretary pompeo has abrogated any claim that he has to being a leader of integrity. >> a lot to get to in the hour ahead. i want to begin with the breaking news in the impeachment inquiry. i want to bring in max smith and frank bruni. max, i want to start with you because i want to get your reaction to this breaking news that's in "the washington post" saying that president trump wanted bill barr to...

Has damaged his own reputation by failing to defend career diplomats caught up in the ukraine scandal. >> it's very clear that mr. pompeo's need to be close to president trump and support him in every way has caused him to give up the integrity that i think is an essential element to being a successful leader. i'm afraid that secretary pompeo has abrogated any claim that he has to being a leader of integrity. >> a lot to get to in the hour ahead. i want to begin with the breaking news in the impeachment inquiry. i want to bring in max smith and frank bruni. max, i want to start with you becaus...

They've never had to do that before in any election. so, those voters have to know that some time between now and tomorrow at midnight, they can come into the elections board in fairfax county and argue that their vote be counted. new rule. the state board of elections clarifying tonight in a letter that they really don't know how things were done in fairfax county in the past. they don't particularly care how things were done in fairfax county in the past, but this is the way they're going to be done now. now. starting now. and so, with one of the candidates in this election giving the advice...

They decide whether the ballot should be accepted or rejected. the other people are the three members of that local board of elections and one member of each party, the republicans and the democrats. and it's the and that representative that has caused so much of an issue here because the state board of elections interprets that law, which was implemented in 2012, last year, as saying the voter and the representative must both be there. >> both be there together, right. >> fairfax county had been interpreting it as the voter or the representative, because they're both allowed to be in there. >...

0 districts in the northern part of the state, it was like an 88% return on those absentee ballots or 86%. but in the most heavily democratic parts of fairfax county, in the congressional district that is the bluest part of that whole blue county, it wasn't 80%, 85%, 90% of the people turning in their absentee ballots. for some reason, there and just there, it was only 50%. why is that? if you did the math, it turned out that it was more than 3,000 absentee ballots that you would have expected from those parts of the state that just inexplicably never turned up. why was the return rate so low ...