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Jeremy diamond joins us now. >> the president publicly has been criticizing the articles of impeachment and saying this is essentially impeachment light. that's the language he used last night in pennsylvania. but privately, chris, we're told the president has been griping about the article cas of impeachment and griping about that fact that he's about to be impeached. that's not a stain he is relishing at all. we're also learning their latest official explanation for why, in fact, that nearly $400 million security aid was the deed frozen. let me read you a portion from the legal memo we obtai...

Aid to ukraine, saying this is essentially a routine policiry view of this aid. can despite that we know there's no real policy review being conducted of this aid, at least in terms of questions about corruption. we know the department of defense-concluded in the spring that ukraine should indeed receive the security. what's sniff is we're seeing them insist the isis a routine matter. and tewing the president directly to this freeze of security aid. this top attorney for the office of management and budget, saying all of this was done at the direction of the president. >> back with me now, fra...

About. >> now witnesses testified about the real motivation connected with the withheld military aid including ambassador bill taylor. here is what he said in his testimony. >> to withhold that assistance for in good reason other than help with the political campaign made no sense. it was -- it was counter productive to all of what we had been trying to do. it was illogical, it could not be explained. it was crazy. >> illogical, unexplainable, crazy. mr. goldman, according to the testimony from ambassador taylor, the only explanation for the withheld aid that made sense was the president was s...

Connected to the withheld military aid including ambassador bill taylor. here is what he said in his testimony. >> to withhold that assistance for no good reason other than help with the political campaign makes no sense. was counterproductive to all of what we had been trying to do. was a logical, it could not be explained, it was crazy. >> a logical, explainable, craz crazy. so according to testimony, the only explanation for the withheld aid that made sense is that the president was seeking help with the political campaign, correct? >> that is the only logical explanation is multiple witnes...

Important that, you know, we get to the bottom of why the trump administration was quietly and mysteriously holding up security aid to lebanon. it's very similar to ukraine. lebanon is at a very perilous moment right now. the military badly needed the aid, and the president held it up without any explanation to congress, exactly what happened in ukraine. now i'm not suggesting there's as nefarious a motive here, but i would hope my republican colleagues would start asking some questions. we have a hearing in the foreign relations committee coming up with state department officials who oversee ...