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Extortion here in what the president did? well, one we habribery because s simply asking a government official to take an official act and either paying them to do so or offering them an incentive to do so. what trump did was he offered president zelensky an incentive by holding funds that he had every right to. it would p no different than if somebody intercepted my paycheck that i earned and said you don't get this until you do me a favor as a government official. one, that's bribery. why is it extortion? swrus getting something of value by threat or force. what did he do here? he said look,...

Constituents are being fed a different narrative. and somehow we got to break through that and then all of this testimony which we know to be true and we've seen it will land and have impact. >> let me go to dean on this because you talked to a lot of fox news watchers on your show. but it seems that with something as great as impeachment hearing, even fox has to carry them, right? >> they will carry them. this could be must see tv. and once we get the netflix crime series about the trump series, this will be a big week in that whole thing. what can democrats do? it is all about framing. don't...

American national interests in order to get something for his own personal gain. they're calling it extortion or bribery, and they want to leave it at that. they want to try to use these witnesses, these fact witnesses, to fill in the details. but they don't want to get lost in all the side arguments that tend to come up in a broad investigation. there are a lot of complexities. they understand there are going to be a lot of distractions from the president's side, a lot of side issues. their idea, their hope is to keep this a very concise argument. >> we're looking at the impeachment schedule ...

Last six months since the democrats took the house back is that you have the good guys talking back. and the republicans are just making a mockery, whether it is storming into rooms, whether it is calling the vice president's son, the democrats are filling the vacuum with rational thought. like you said, they are not calling some other witness or some kind of defense witness who can say you know what, i was on that call too, because the facts aren't on their sides. the best they can do is wave their hands in the air and distract. that's not working. and it's been clear for the last six weeks t...

Richard nixon who knows something about impeachments. mr. dean, thank you, as always for joining us. both of these witnesses, lieutenant colonel vindman and dr. fiona hill both directly tie contact acting chief of staff mick mulvaney to this, do you call it extortion, quid pro quo, this deal, whatever you wa unt to call it. mulvaney was subpoenaed but defied and skipped his deposition today. how much does today's testimony put mulvaney at risk? >> it puts him directly at risk. he's right in the middle of this whole scheme. we don't know, we don't have enough of a deal to know which side of the...