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Advice she said she got from u.s. ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland, to tweet out praise or support for president trump in order to save her job. tomorrow, transcripts from sondland's testimony, as well as kurt volker's will be released to the public. remember, volker provided evidence of trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani's efforts of a shadow shakedown in u.s. policy towards ukraine. all right. to start the hour, joining me from the white house is nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson and from capitol hill, msnbc's garrett haake. hallie, what's the mood and what's t...

>> the president used the phrase i have a favor and that gets close to quid pro quo. i will describe giuliani as he is running a shadow shakedown. >> who is doing the shakedown? >> compare what they are saying might have happened to what we know happened in the videotape of the former vice president, joe biden, saying he threatened the ukrainian government with the withholding of a billion-dollar us loan guarantee unless they fire the prosecutor investigating his son. that sounds like a pretty formal quid pro quo. >> listens these text messages fox was able to get a hold of going back and fort...

Attempt to exchange public value, better diplomatic relations and the like. and the political gain for the campaign. and joe biden, $1 million, and trading diplomatic value for it. what do the american people think of this? >> republicans think he's going after corruption and others think it is joe biden. here's the democrat responding to what he heard yesterday. >> i will describe giuliani as a shadow shakedown. rob: a lot keep going back to i have a favor but you need to

>> good evening, lawrence. i was present for the whole interview with the ambassador. and first he corroborated entirely what the whistle-blower complaint stated, that there was a shakedown, a shadow shakedown going on by rudy giuliani. it looks like ordered by president trump and the whistle-blower said he said there was an effort to have the ukrainians,,quote/unquote, play ball. so here's what the ukrainians understood as soon as president zelensky was sworn into office that there were two asks from the white house and that if he wanted a meeting with president trump, he had to, one, investi...