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Undertake for his political benefit. let me get your reaction to that. >> there is two things. it's almost laughable. we talk about a sham process, we have been involved with a sham process that adam schiff has been directing for the last six weeks. that's why your viewers are just now getting to hear from these witnesses where we have heard behind closed doors. the second part of this is any adam schiff narrative that would suggest that this is not a partisan attack is just not based on the facts. why do we not begin to call all of our witnesses? why does the white house not of counsel? if th...

Joining me is josh dawsey and kim whaly, a former federal prosecutor. she served as an associate independent council in the white water investigations. thank you so much for being here. josh, you have this great reporting about mulvaney's move on friday to join this lawsuit that's been kind of lingering out there, asking a judge to decide who he should follow, white house guidance to not testify or a congressional subpoena. how surprised were folks about this move and why were they? >> well, john bolton and his deputy have been going through the legal process to figure out if they could testif...

Told aids to stonewall. do not testify, do not do anything, do not cooperate with what he considers to be a sham process. but mulvaney said, i don't want to be held in contempt by the house. i want to know what my legal rights are and joined this lawsuit. it was a move that surprised bolton's team and surprised many in the white house. >> one of the words that's not often used, but definitely seems to apply here, flabbergasted, as you described it, folks were with this move. kim, so mulvaney is now sitting in the same place as josh was talking about, as john bolton and his former deputy saying...

Are you getting any sense of their strategy going into this week. >> i think the fact that we saw their witness list, they want to hear from the whistle-blower, they want to hear from hunter biden. and of course, kate, those are no witnesses that democrats are not going to allow to come forward. that gives republicans an opportunity to sort of decry the process further. we heard from lindsey graham. the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, who said, any hearing that doesn't include the whistle-blower, any process that doesn't include the whistle-blower is a sham. and when it moves over ...

Appeared to directly attack one of the potential witnesses, marie yovanovitch. he suggested on twitter, retweeting a transcript of hers from one of the house republicans on the committee but suggested that she was a liar. joe, that's different from what the president in the past has said about marie yovanovitch. he said she seems like a nice lady. he's basically tried to maintain that he didn't really know a lot of these people, whether it's tim morrison, marie yovanovitch, gordon sondland, even though he had obviously had conversations with them. so, in this next phase, this public phase that...