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Correct? >> reporter: right, brian. at this hour, you've got house democrats huddled behind closed doors in this room down the hall. and the guest of honor is adam schiff, the house intelligence committee chairman. he, we're told, is walking house democrats through his committee's work product. so he's taking them through a tour of that report that the committee released, approved, and then kicked over to the judiciary committee late last night. now, the intel committee report itself does not recommend specific articles of impeachment, but look, it certainly telegraphed at least two, one being...

Worked with giuliani and his indicted associates to oust former u.s. ambassador of ukraine marie yovanovich. >> was it mr. lutsenko among others who coordinated with mr. giuliani to peddle false accusations against you as well as the bidens? >> yes, that is my understanding. >> the post and other outlets revealed today that around the same time that giuliani and lutsenko were smearing yovanovich in order to clear the way in part at least for trump's extortion scheme, legal agreements are drafted under which giuliani's company would have received more than $200,000 to represent lutsenko. in add...

25th call versus what trump is saying now about rudy giuliani, interpret that for us. >> well, he's backing away. i mean, this was what john bolton called the drug deal and the king pen is the president and he assigns rudy giuliani to carry out this extortion scheme. what we are learning now is that rudy is not just an extortionist. he's not just a character assassin going after ambassador yovanovitch. he is an influence peddler and he's in it for himself in the same way that, you know, the top guy is. it always comes back to money for trump and for all of his thugs. they're all in it for thei...

25th call versus what trump is saying now about rudy giuliani, interpret that for us. >> well, he's backing away. this is what he called the drug deal and the kingpin is the president, and he assigns rudy giuliani to carry out this extortion scheme. what we're learning now is that rudy's not just an extortionist, he's not just a character assassin going after ambassador yovanovitch, he is an influence peddler, and he's in it for himself in the same way that, you know, the top guy is. it always comes back to money for trump and for all of his thugs. they're all in for his their own interests. t...

Secretary of state mike pompeo, who witnesses have testified, was deeply involved in the president's extortion scheme. recently responded with this comment. >> the president tweeted just a short while ago that he encouraged you essentially to testify in the impeachment investigation, is that something you're considering? >> when the time is right all oe good things happen. >> okay. thank, chauncey gardner. and then there's former national security advisor john bolton who according to testimony referred to trump's extortion scheme t famously as a, quote, drug deal. and an attorney for bolton 's...