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Business, the media, across the board, and the president since hes been in office has stoked that in an unprecedented way. The argument that theyre going to make about the fact that hes obstructing certainly matters on constitutional level but does it matter on a who cares level. This is an issue, i think the loss of institutional integrity, because our politics are tribalized and divisive, why nancy pelosi did not want to move forward with impeachment for the longest time, because it would be so divisive and she feels like her hand has been, you know, that theres no choice but to move forward...

Mr. giuliani, prior to the july 25th call, he made public statements that ukraine should investigate the former vice president joe biden. he tweeted about it, putting pressure on the new president. he went to ukraine and later went again with the assist and direction of u.s. officials who were told to aid the president's personal lawyer on the president's behalf. you'll hear that president trump told his aids that he was relying on for ukraine, that he wanted them to, quote, talk to rudy. what you're going to hear is that his close advisors had just gotten back on may 23rd from the inauguratio...

Ukrainian officials to -- some of these ukrainian politicians remained in government when president zelensky took over. witnesses testified these ukrainian efforts in 2016 colored how president trump viewed ukraine. it is also important to note that president zelensky was a relatively unknown quantity for u.s. policymakers. ambassador yovanovitch called him an untried politician. dr. hale testified there were concerns within the national security council about the relationship with a controversial oligarch in ukraine. although president zelinski ran on a reform platform, president president ze...

Worked on and that was the first step act and that was to reduce the sentences for many african-americans who were charged with drug crimes. >> yeah. so the republicans obstructed under the obama administration very similar policies, a stronger criminal justice reform platform. they wouldn't let it go through. to honor this president for the repackaging of barack obama's criminal justice agenda, good, good step in the right direction. i'm not going to overplay what this administration has done for criminal justice reform, especially when it's sows seeds of hate against communities of color eve...

It's really a mix of a couple of things but two things stood out for me not only in the report but in the things that have followed up. it's really the lack of leadership from the political class. you know, this past election cycle, color of change, a number of other organizations were very involved in getting rid of the attorney general, anita alvarez, and replacing her with someone who ran on the reform platform. from the former state's attorney anita alvarez, to rahm emanuel himself, we've seen a lack of leadership of elected officials at seeing their responsibility and holding police accou...