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Is what the democrats have been trying to do since day one. >> but here is the thing, glenn, we could be offended all day long, stonewalling work. you take you to the president's taxes. we're two plus years in and we still haven't seen them. the president has been stonewalling us on things that he didn't want to put forward since he started running in 2015 and it has been a great strategy. >> although there was a ruling yesterday from the manhattan court that the president may have to come up -- >> and what happened? emergency appeal. >> you're right, stonewalling seems to work. when i heard t...

Going on, people who aren't officially in the process who ar advising the president and doing these things. is that typical, do you recall that in your experience? >> no, not at all. and what it does, it creates plausible deniability potentially for the president to say that these people that he is engaging with were operating off the books or that the policymakers who are engaged like kurt volker was and other, they are carrying one message, but he really behind the scenes is doing something else and they can say that they didn't have the authority. there is a lot of manipulation here the pre...

Wouldn't the white house want him to show up and tell possibly the president's side of the story? >> it is a good question. i think that is not clear yet. clearly it was a last minute decision and calculation of theirs that they potentially don't want to create the precedent of complying at all with there investigation. one thing sondland could do which we're not seeing, a lot of house democrats have called on him to resign. and like kurt stroll kerr who d kurt volker did resign, so he would be free to speak to these congressional hearings.kerr who kurt volker did resign, so he would be free t...

Gordon sondland ambassador to the european union ukraine is not in the european union. and then ambassador to -- the actual u.s. ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor. and then there is kurt volker who was the special envoy to ukraine. you say why is there a special envoy and an ambassador? they have different roles. the special envoy is not an official state department position. it is not a paid position. it is sort of a part-time person who is involved in this thing. these three guys were involved in a discussion about why the aid was being held up to ukraine. >> and one of the reasons people w...

More than any other demographic in an effort to suppress the vote.are targeted more than any other demographic in an effort to suppress the vote. don't forget donald trump thanked black voters for not turning out for hillary clinton. and there are also a series of recommendations, that is what is new here. some of these findings had already been issued by private researcher, but now we have how the senators want to address this. and one thing they are proposing is legislation for example to require the disclosure of who is paying for political ads on line, the same way we can find out who is p...