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Donald trump was doing something that was appropriate and was legal. so, although donald trump likes to say, hey, this was a perfect call that i had with president zelensky, that there's no issue here, well, not everyone in his own administration was necessarily feeling that way in the heat of the moment and in the midst of what was ultimately a weeks-long discussion about this very topic. >> sonam, do you think this makes a case for the senate to call fact witnesses from inside the white house, including michael duffey? >> i think that has been the case for weeks now and that these emails cer...

And he even felt threatened to come back tomorrow. phillip? >> i guess that's the type of spin that we expected from the president. all right, hans nichols traveling with the president this morning. hans, thank you so much. joining me now, dave levinthal, editor at large at the center for public integrity, and sonam scheff with business insider. dave, you fought for and asked for the release of the emails. it talks about the aid and the president asking for the aid in june and michael duffey reiterated the official holding of the aid in july. what more can you tell us about that? because the...

Official said even after that that they wanted to withhold the aid is further indication of the fact that it wasn't enough for trump to just get that private commitment from zelensky but that, as bill taylor testified, he wanted zelensky to be in a, quote, public box. he wanted a public commitment, which, of course, is part of the reason why this aid was withheld until september 11th, when the public find out about it. >> sonam, i wanted to get more into that email that we were discussing here. michael duffey added this line here to the july 25th email -- "given the sensitive nature of the req...

Business insider, political correspondent as well. i want to start with this, you two. according to a 538 ipsos poll of democratic voters before and after thursday's debate, minnesota senator amy klobuchar saw the biggest boost while south bend indiana mayor pete buttigieg took a hit to his reputation as a star debater. how significant was thursday's debate for klobuchar's campaign? >> i mean, in my opinion it was very significant, especially because this was the latest in actually a string of the last two or three debates in which klobuchar has steadily seemed to gain her footing, display mor...

And their primary goal here is to have it end as soon as possible, to kind of boost the president's re-election campaign so that this cloud isn't hanging over him. >> all right, sonam, hang tight. we will see you later this hour. dave thevlevinthal, thank you s much. >> thank you. how bad could it get if witnesses are called at the senate impeachment trial? new insight from the president's former communications director, next. resident's former communications director, next