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Recall. >> okay. so, you have the state department denying congressional investigators access to the documents. and the way they got it now was this oversight organization sued to have them released. but you've touched on what's in them. can you point to something specific as to why mike pompeo wants to keep this from congress? >> well, i mean, i think it's to the fact that this is pretty damning. if the state department was actively participating in a process with someone -- rudolph giuliani, who is not a state department official, who is not a white house official, who is the personal attorn...

Stuff was happening and said very bluntly everybody was involved and that i think, you know, i really do think it demands therefore we hear from these other people. i can't understand how something as big as this impeachment inquiry would not now demand and necessitate we hear from all of these people that were involved. >> nicolle is being bhod guess because that was the first point she made this morning about the regular channel and, of course, we heard sondland lay it out beautifully later on in his testimony. ambassador, you and i had a conversation probably a week ago now that the only si...

World. this is a dangerous time. we all need to sober up. nato has prevented an awful lot of bad things from happening. plus it's not just a defense institution, it's foreign policy and state departments involved, too. the ministers of state and our secretary of state meets regularly just like defense ministers and secretary of defense at nato. it's more than just collective defense security. it's economic, trade, state craft. it's all our interests rolled into one institution. >> it's not just that president trump is suspicious of institutions which obviously he is. to a degree he was elected...

At their best great leaders and great journalists are also educators. by their state craft in the state of leaders, by their trade craft in the case of journalists they show us how it is done. watch speaker nancy pelosi these past weeks. notice her sense of timing, her patience in waiting for the key moment, her quickness in action when it came. she held off her caucus until she saw the clear-cut case for the president's impeachment, that she struck with all her force and intellect. today we got the accountic from that. 231 democratic votes for the impeachment inquiry, just two gents. better y...

These are people that fight with me all the time on the witch hunts. i've had the mueller witch hunt, the russia witch hunt. we've got to stick together. we've got to stick together. >> today's witness, laura cooper, left that delayed deposition three hours after it finally got under way five hours late. her testimony comes amid the fallout from yesterday. what ambassador bill taylor revealed in his opening statement to lawmakers, he directly tied trump to the ukraine pressure campaign and noted rudy giuliani's role in statecraft. house republicans have largely tried to dismiss taylor's recoll...