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Course this is they were doing. things with the possibility that it might come out later on. and the process attacks that i hear from republicans reflect >> now, i want to be clear about that they don't want to defend your expertise, jay, both as a what was actually going on, the federal prosecutor and someone extortion scheme with our who worked for donald trump. you know michael cohen. taxpayer dollars. as you know as a lawyer, law >> that's very interesting. professor tell you when the in the 15 years that i worked facts are against you, argue the law. when the law is against you, for trump...

Time this morning. >> good morning, jim. good morning, poppy. >> you were in the room for fiona hill's testimony and other officials testifying. have you heard evidence to this point that would support articles of impeachment against this president? >> yes, jim. we have. but the president's going to get a fair process. it will be a swift process, but we'll continue to do our work. and just so your viewers understand, essentially a tip was placed through the whistle-blower tip line that, you know, the president was engaged in this extortion scheme with the ukrainians and that a cover-up was und...

This comes as republicans have been without a unifying message on how to respond to the impeachment. it may well have been the beginning of an effort to come up with a response to this. >> jon karl with the new reporting tonight. jon, thank you. now to the new developments coming in. the house issuing a subpoena to the white house, pulling vice president pence deeper into the impeachment inquiry. three house committees asking for any ukraine related documents, and now we're learning about the text messages made public, i peering to detail the trump administration's pressuring of ukraine. abc...

Having him submit essays to the corrupt tennis court that took the bribe. the judge said involving this teen did add to the serious nature. the defendant was painted as remorseless. he sued georgetown university to stop them from expelling his son, trying to retain the fruits of his fraud. it means the classic definition of chutzpah. in his letter to the job, he does cast blame on rick singer. she said that he wanted the future that he worked hard for. he said the responsibility is mine for the vulnerability to this extortion scheme. the same judge gave felicity huffman two weeks in prison. sl...

Citizen couldn't commit, but it really does echo the -- demanding a thing of value in exchange for the performance of an official act. in my district, the former mayor of detroit was convicted of an extortion scheme that was very similar. he would withhold contracts, public works contracts that were worth millions of dollars unless he got a demand met and received a thing of value, that was his friend getting put on all these contracts, to cash in on some of the proceeds of those contracts. i see this in a very similar way with parallels to bribery and extortion. unlike the kinds of crimes mue...