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I'm sorry about that social awkwa awkwardness. this is a serious step, this op-ped you wrote with your colleagues tonight. tell me about your thinking process leading up to this. >> well, my thinking process is if this particular instance that's happened with the president of the united states, enlisting a foreign leader to assist him in conducting an investigation that will smear and damage his potential political opponent in the upcoming election and in the process of doing that potentially withheld foreign aid to that country, if this isn't impeachable, what is? so i feel like this is a cle...

Just within the past few minutes, the "washington post" has published this op-ped. it -- you see it's got a big, long byline there. it's because it's is co-authored by seven members of congress. these are zemseven democrats. each of them freshmen. each of them in their first term. each is a veteran of either the military or one of the defense or intelligence agencies. this is seven freshmen democrats speaking in one voice in this short new op-ped that's just been posted about this new explosive scandal about trump se seeking, apparently seeking assistance for his re-election campaign from the ...

Being implemented here and the whistle-blower's complaint being transferred. part of that is i like the rule of law. i think it's a good idea. i think it's good for our country, but second, my prediction is that that whistle-blower's complaint will have much more material in it than simply the transcript. >> michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia, sir, it's great to have you here. thanks for your time tonight. >> thanks for having me. all right. we got more news ahead. as i mentioned, the "washington post" has just published an op-ped by seven freshmen democrats all of whom are mil...

Be a political calculus in this situation. there is not for me. >> looking at this from the outside, it does feel like things are different to see your name on this op-ped. the names of the other people who signed on to this with you, mikey sheryl, abigail spanberger, slotkin, christy houlihan. to see people who have not only been banging the drum for impeachment but who have been reticent on this issue, really not willing to be out ahead of other people on this, taking a sort of moderate line on all of these things, it feels different. it does feel like something's broken and that the democra...

Four days later the whistle-blower complaint is filed with the intelligence community's inspector general. three days after that dan coats and sue gordon leave the white house. before that week is out, president trump says publicly, that should be forgiven. russia and vladimir putin should be let back into the g8. politico is first to report trump put on hold $250 million in military aid to ukraine, money that was appropriated by the congress to help ukraine stands up to russia. before the next week is out, the white house announces that it is cutting almost the entire military construction bu...