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They don't care about almost anything. they don't care about usmca. how about that? i think they're lousy politicians. two things they have. they're vicious and they stick together. >> impeachment, syria, the g7, the president saying the constitution doesn't matter. if there is a dam, our question is how much pressure can it take? joining me now from capitol hill, nbc news correspondent geoff bennett, "los angeles times" white house reporter eli stock olz. and pbs news hour white house correspondent and msnbc political analyst jam yeesh alcindor. welcome. what do you expect to hear this week a...

What sounded the alarm bells and pushed him to say in this text chain, wait a minute, guys, i don't think this is such a good idea. but it isn't just taylor. i also want to hear from michael duffey who held off funds to ukraine. i want to know his thing in this process, what he felt was the thinking of the white house while this discussion was going on. >> and the chief of staff said what he said. we're talking about a message that michael duffey may be able to convey that mick mulvaney may know intimately about. many people who are being called to testify have their involvements with the stat...

Things have just gone from very, very bad to much, much worse. >> reporter: so one of the other things chairman schiff has said is it's very apparent to him that this july 25th call between presidents trump and zelensky didn't happen in isolation. this inquiry is trying to fig yaur out what happened before the call and after. next tuesday house investigators are set to hear from bill taylor, the state department official who said in that text chain said, it would be crazy for the president to try to hold up ukraine military aid for a political ask. >> geoff, let me get your thoughts on what we...

It eventually happens, he could have an enormous amount of insight and be able to express some of his concerns about what he understood to be happening and the things he didn't understand to be happening. you can see that play out in those text messages between gordon sondland and mr. taylor and kurt volker where taylor keeps trying to have the conversation on the text chain so that it becomes part of the record and gordon sondland keeps trying to pull the conversation from the text chain. >> we have that. i just want to share that real quickly so people can remember the reference here as he w...

President's personal attorney with the adviser yarmak and served as arizona state university's mccain institute. he is not hyperrepublican. he is in touch with yermak, the presidential adviser part of the text chain who volker put in contact with rudy giuliani. a couple of critical texts, one happening before president trump's phone call with the ukrainian president. on july 19th. this is kurt volker. he says he had breakfast with rudy giuliani and he is texting the u.s. ambassador to the rurpen you know as well as the u.s. diplomat bill taylor saying teeing up call. yermak monday. most import...