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Order relative to a quid pro quo. and in the transcript itself, what the republicans are going to try and do is bring this back to the transcript itself, which there is no quid pro quo. and there's also no -- what he asked for was an investigation. pee didn he didn't ask for them to find him guilty without a trial without due process. he didn't ask them to dig dirt. >> that is the dirt. as soon as i hear jimmy schultz is under investigation, he's got stink on him. >> a lot of people have a lot of problems with what hunter biden was engaged in. >> that's fine. you should have gone to the d.o.j....

That a problem? >> sure, we had that with mueller, right, now that we are removing hearings -- leland: this isn't about mueller, this is about something else. >> right. leland, we have to remember that the vast majority of congress has been kept in the dark, i'm very fortunate to be on on the house foreign affairs committee and been in depositions, 75% of my colleagues have not been in the deposition, how are they supposed to make decisions -- leland: back to the original question, what is the first thing in chair committee, we will start with this, what have you been able to read and see in f...

Cipollone and mulvaney were on opsid sides of that. they have been at odds since the transcript, that bad fact set of the president's or the rough transcript of the president's conversation with the president of ukraine came out. it was cipollone's decision to release it. mulvaney objected, as had others. the transcript itself, a lot of people in the white house and on the hill will say is, as you put it, just not a great set of facts to explain or defend. and so because of that, because of that, because of what mick mulvaney said last week from the briefing room podium and because of the pres...

Been doing much tv or anything because i've been trying to study the history of the three presidential impeachment proceedings and then compare it to all the evidence in ukraine that's come out over the last few weeks. and my ultimate conclusion -- and this will be part of a longer writing project -- is that i think that the president is going to be impeached. i don't think that he has any valid arguments to the contrary, and it's very, very serious. and it started with, of course, the transcript, which the president himself has released on july 25th. so when he goes and attacks the whistle-bl...

Transpired and we've also been able to learn from our own reporting. so i think members of congress that are saying that, oh, this is hearsay and should not be believed, it's, i think, getting tougher and tougher to make that argument. >> evan perez, thanks so much. we'll check back with you. here to discuss is former republican congressman and house manager in president clinton's impeachment trial, bill mccullum. bill, good to see you again. >> good to be with you. >> thank you. what is your reaction to the news that there is now a second whistleblower who has come forward with firsthand kn...