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murray, thanks to both of you. thanks for watching our msnbc special. find me on weeknights. it s the beet, 6:00 p.m. eastern. it started as a 30-minute phone call between two presidents. it erupted into a full-scale scandal that now threatens to bring down donald trump. today i m announcing the house of representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. our president sacrificed our national security and our constitution for his personal political benefit. they ve been trying to impeach me from the day i got elected. and you know what? they failed. you ve seen the headlines. tonight we ll dive deep into the part of the story you haven t heard. and key players will reveal for the first time what really happened. as we go on assignment. the conversation just after 9:00 a.m. on july 25th started out friendly. president donald j. trump calling his newly elected counterpart, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. this is from the official notes o ....
about fighting corruption, we should also say specifically, burisma in 2016. mr. yermak provided me a statement. i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to president trump and solve this problem that i had observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. the problem being that he is getting a bad set of information, a statement like this could potentially correct that. was mr. guiliani satisfied with the statement? no, he was not. he believed it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, would not mean anything. so in fact, mr. guiliani wanted a statement that referenced burisma and the 2016 elections explicitly. one that would benefit, essentially, president trump. it is to invest or come here is the text you sent to the ukrainian official on august august 13th. let s put that up on the screen. ....
robert mueller. in his take home forms that his lawyers filled out for him. yes, and it just continues and the court battles involving tax returns, chief justice roberts provided a stay for a few days which was really people overplayed that yesterday. that was administrative decision, but a lot coming at this president. a lot coming at this president, and i think a lot coming at the republican party this morning. ari, the testimony of colonel vindman, the cross-examination will be interesting to see how far they go in trying to demean vindman in front of a national tv audience. i think that is a precarious place for them and if you want to put aside the obvious ethics of it, that these are people that serve, diplomatic or military, there is also a a problem with going against a witness when is there are not many facts known to the witness. so if you want to look bad by exploding someone. it doesn t buy you much if two or three other people can basically testify to the ....
giuliani. mr. giuliani said they thought ukraine should make a statement about fighting corruption and mr. yermac provided me a draft statement and i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to president trump and solve this problem that i had observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. the problem being that he s getting bad set of information. a statement like this could potentially correct that. so was mr. giuliani satisfied with this statement? no, he was not. why not? he believed it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, it would not mean anything. so in fact mr. giuliani wanted a statement that referenced burisma and 2016 elections explicitly. one that would benefit essentially president trump. mr. ambassador, here s the text you sent to the ukrainian official august 13th. you sa ....
a single party fraudulent impeachment process deployed against the president like the one being used against donald trump. that s what s unprecedented here. it s not the claim that a president doesn t want to turn over witnesses or documents. that as we said many times today is actually quite common. by the way, let s remember, noted again, president trump has consistently cooperated with this congress in fulfilling its oversight and investigation responsibilities. i noticed the statistics this morning when we started, there were 25 administration officials that testified before the house oversight this year and 25 at the house judiciary committee. at the start of the impeachment inquiry the white house produced more than 100,000 pages of documents to the oversight committee. in spite of their allegations, the democrats know president trump has a lawful cause to challenge the subpoenas because they involve direct wln are communications between high ranking advisors and a presi ....