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Really dispute. joining me is a former foreign minister of russia, the author of "the firebird." imagine, if you can put yourself in the place of vladimir putin, i know difficult to do, but you know him far better than we do. right now he's watching a meltdown in american diplomacy, and a corruption of american diplomacy. i don't even know how much he's been pulling the strings behind the scenes because we don't know anything about these private meetings he's had, without note-takers, with our american president. in "firebird" you recount how the successor to the kgb, which he was a former kgb...

What you will protect against mr. atkinson? >> correct. >> there is a memo of a telephone conversation on the july 25th call, right? >> i believe that's what transpired yesterday morning, sir. >> they call that a telcon in the jargon of this memoranda, is that right? >> this is the first time i've ever seen a conversation with foreign leaders. a telecon would be a teleconference on the telephone, though. >> would you ever be present for those? >> they might call in. the president might ask us to stay for a brief time, yes, sir. >> and there are note takers who scribble down furiously what is b...

And impeachment ultimately is a kind of constitutional issue between executive branch and congress. people are exercise birthday that now. >> eli, one of the remarkable things about this whistle-blower complaint is in normal presidential scandals, the questions from the press, and i'm more accustomed to being on the receiving end of those questions were how high up did knowledge of the impending scandal go. did it reach the president, did it reach the national security adviser. in this case the transgression was on the part of donald trump. donald trump on the phone with president zelensky say...

Through investigations but by impeachment, no matter what the senate does, at least you will have done your constitutional duty and look stronger versus weaker, which is how bewe're looking right now. >> is there something different about this set of facts here, susan, with the president admitting he had this phone call and that he brought up investigating, essentially digging for dirt on joe biden with ukraine? >> well, look, it is astonishing in a way, facts that we're looking at here. first of all, what we already know, there is a lot we don't know, not just in what was exactly recorded by ...

Virtually any time i speak on the phone to a foreign leader i understand that there may be many people listening from various u.s. agencies, not to mention those from the other country itself. no problem. knowing all of this, is anybody dumb enough to believe that i would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially heavily populated call? keeping them honest whether the president is in his own words, dumb enough, that's unclear. but his larger denial would certainly be easier to swallow if it weren't for some of what we know he has done when he's not surrounde...