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>> several outstanding members of congress, these are warriors. 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...

Their phones can be turned into listening devices without their knowledge. in afternoon in pittsburgh the president praised republicans who defended him. >> several outstanding members of congress, these are warriors. 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 t...

Impeachment inquiry is a valid exercise of the house's power? the president obviously has called it a coup. >> i think it's fine to have the inquiry. i haven't heard anything yet that would tell me that we should impeach the president of the united states, but i'm very interested in hearing the rest of the testimony, particularly bill taylor this week and hopefully at some point ambassador bol ambassador bolton. >> how do you square the president's defense of his phone conversation with the president of ukraine. he said once again today that it was perfect. is there anything perfect about it i...

>> i think it's fine to have the inquiry. i haven't heard anything yet that would tell me that we should impeach the president of the united states. but i'm very interested in hearing the rest of the testimony, particularly bill taylor this week, and hopefully at some point ambassador bolton. >> how do you square the president's defense of his phone conversation with the president of ukraine because he said once again today that it was perfect. is there anything perfect about it in your opinion? >> well, i think it's confusing to me to mix business things of rudy giuliani with statecraft. it's...

>> the front tip between roosevelt and churchill is the most important friendship in american history. bret: then there was joseph stalin born into poverty rising through the ranks of the communist party using mass murder as a tool of statecraft. >> stalin is such an enigma and a fascinating figure. on one hand he's a brilliant military tactician and understands the levers of power in a way that few leaders did. bret: in 1939 he's done the best by west by entering into a nonaggression pact with hitler but in 19 for the one hitler attacked the soviet union anyway and effectively in allen greg h...