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i think we can infer from the white house opposition to dr. kupperman's testimony that they believe that his testimony would be incriminating of the president. it is also, i think, very plain additional and powerful evidence of obstruction of congress and its lawful function by the president that yet again and even after a court decision affirming the right of congress to proceed with this impeachment inquiry, the white house has obstructed the work of a co-equal branch of government. if this witness had something to say that would be helpful to the white house, they would want him to come and testify. they plainly don't. after hearing the testimony or reviewing the written opening statement of ambassador taylor, one can easily see why the white house does not want further evidence to come before the congress. i found it remarkable i have to say that the republican members of our three committees, including ranking members on oversight committees, took a position effectively of endorsing the white house obstruction that the president in an imp
i think we can infer from the white house opposition to dr. kupperman's testimony that they believe that his testimony would be incriminating of the president. it is also, i think, very plain additional and powerful evidence of obstruction of congress and its lawful function by the president that yet again and even after a court decision affirming the right of congress to proceed with this impeachment inquiry, the white house has obstructed the work of a co-equal branch of government. if this...
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the white house. nancy pelosi has been very clear she's not going to succomb when it comes to white house pressure when it comes to pushing for a full house vote on the full house floor to authorizing an impeachment inquiry. she's not ruled it out in the past but she does not believe she's required to do so. many republicans are arguing for a full house vote. arguing that a potentially give them more power than they have right now. potentially giving them even chance to subpoena their own witnesses. subpoena their own information here. this letter most likely tonight not only just essentially will throw a lot of more fuel on the fire for democrats and the white house have made it clear this only adds to this case they are building. this white house stone walling just adds to their case about obstruction which they say will factor in to articles of impeachment. >> thank you. joining me now is congressman a democrat who serves on the judiciary and foreign affairs committee. thank you so much for joining
the white house. nancy pelosi has been very clear she's not going to succomb when it comes to white house pressure when it comes to pushing for a full house vote on the full house floor to authorizing an impeachment inquiry. she's not ruled it out in the past but she does not believe she's required to do so. many republicans are arguing for a full house vote. arguing that a potentially give them more power than they have right now. potentially giving them even chance to subpoena their own...
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last week the white house announced the white house itself and federal offices will and incursions restrictions the washington post. >> i think they will be okay. >> does that make your job broadly as reporters more difficult when news sources are ended or criticized in that way by their decision not to? >> the washington post and new york times you a lot of their business online now. the washington post i know it free subscriptions to government employees. we have a.gov or an email address, you can get a free subscription so i don't think it really materially damages them and subscriptions to that tradition of the paper. and there's kind of a dual game that goes on with this administration. the president wants to feed on us and use us as a prop in his political rallies but we have not been kicked out of the white house, we have not been kicked out, we're still in proximity to the president all the time. he talks to us a lot. there's a lot of news that comes out of the white house and a lot of people in his administration talk to us area and they work with us as the press. they understandthe va
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the white house announced the white house itself federal offices will end subscriptions to the washington post, new york times . their competitors of your that bloomberg. >> i think they will be okay. >> does that make your job more difficult when news sources are ended or criticized in that way by their decision? >> the washington post andthe new york times do a lot of their business online now . the washington post gives free subscriptions to government employees. if you have a.government email address you get a free subtraction so i don't think it damages them and subscriptions to that paper. and there's sort of like a dual game that goes on in thisadministration . the president likes to be on us and use us as a prop in his political rallies but we have not been kicked out of the white house, we've not been kicked out of air force one. we're still in close proximity to the president, he talks to us a lot. thereis a lot of news that comes out of the white house and his and ministration talks to us, they work with us as the press. they work with thepress and understand the value of the p
the white house announced the white house itself federal offices will end subscriptions to the washington post, new york times . their competitors of your that bloomberg. >> i think they will be okay. >> does that make your job more difficult when news sources are ended or criticized in that way by their decision? >> the washington post andthe new york times do a lot of their business online now . the washington post gives free subscriptions to government employees. if you...
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house, the subpoena for the white house to hand over documents that it sounds like from our reporting that they are not going to do that. that they're preparing a letter, kaitlan collins said, that they will make the argument, that first nancy pelosi has to vote on the impeachment inquiry before they hand it over because they don't recognize that the impeachment inquiry is happening. parallels? >> the real parallel is that the nixon tapes are somewhat the equivalent of those conversations summaries that are now in that highly-classified locked digital lockbox. they are somewhat equivalent because what we've seen of one summary suggests this conspiracy. suggests this high crime perhaps by the president of the united states. and nixon was ordered to turn over his tapes because of those kinds of suggestions. so there's some real comparisons of evidence that is being withheld now, that the watergate investigators were able to obtain. >> and which they were not, became article three, which is to say you're not giving us what we want. >> that's exactly right. and that became another part of
house, the subpoena for the white house to hand over documents that it sounds like from our reporting that they are not going to do that. that they're preparing a letter, kaitlan collins said, that they will make the argument, that first nancy pelosi has to vote on the impeachment inquiry before they hand it over because they don't recognize that the impeachment inquiry is happening. parallels? >> the real parallel is that the nixon tapes are somewhat the equivalent of those conversations...
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that was in the white house. they were the rogue operation they broke into the water gate and elsewhere looking for dirt on president nixons opponent. this according to the times is a rogue operation involving the highest officials in the land. the chief of staff of the white house the president himself of course. and bolton wanted to alert the lawyers. what did he expect white house lawyers to do? call the cops? read the president his rights. you have a right -- that may happen some day. not yet. it's amazing. i believe that this conventional wisdom we thought was right. the house would impeach but the senate would never convict with the republicans. it maybe wrong. the senate can convict if this keeps going. >> interesting. the new reporting says that according to today's testimony. bolton told hill to tell the white house lawyers that i am not part of whatever drug deal rudy and mulvaney are cooking up. and we're also learning more about mick mulvaney involvement and working with giuliani. what do you make of
that was in the white house. they were the rogue operation they broke into the water gate and elsewhere looking for dirt on president nixons opponent. this according to the times is a rogue operation involving the highest officials in the land. the chief of staff of the white house the president himself of course. and bolton wanted to alert the lawyers. what did he expect white house lawyers to do? call the cops? read the president his rights. you have a right -- that may happen some day. not...
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house is refusing to comply with the white house impoo impeachment inquiriy. what's next? paul begala has some thoughts on that. (kickstart my heart by motley crue)) (truck honks) (wheels screeching) (clapping) (sound of can hitting bag and bowl) (clapping) always there in crunch time. i used to book my hotel room on those traalways a catch.here was like somehow you wind up getting less. but now that i book at hilton.com, and i get all these great perks. i got to select my room from the floor plan... very nice... i know, i'm good at picking stuff. free wi-fi... laptop by the pool is a bold choice... and the price match guarantee. how do you know all of this? are you like some magical hilton fairy? it's just here on the hilton app. just available to the public, so... book at hilton.com and get the hilton price match guarantee. if you find a lower rate, we match it and give you 25% off that stay. it also has the highest growth in manufacturing jobs in the us. it's a competition for the talent. employees need more than just a paycheck. you definitely want to take
house is refusing to comply with the white house impoo impeachment inquiriy. what's next? paul begala has some thoughts on that. (kickstart my heart by motley crue)) (truck honks) (wheels screeching) (clapping) (sound of can hitting bag and bowl) (clapping) always there in crunch time. i used to book my hotel room on those traalways a catch.here was like somehow you wind up getting less. but now that i book at hilton.com, and i get all these great perks. i got to select my room from the floor...
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backing you. >>> house speaker nancy pelosi hitting back at the white house. she says any efforts to hide the president's abuse of power will be considered evidence of obstruction. joining me to discuss now, john dean, douglas brinkley. gentlemen, good evening. good to see you. i just want to read this. this is from article 3 of the articles of impeachment drafted against richard nixon. it says, in his conduct of the office of president of the united states, richard m. nixon has failed without lawful cause or excuse to produce papers and things as directed by duly authorized subpoenas issued by the committee of the judiciary of the house of representatives and willfully disobeyed such subpoenas. john, is this where we're heading now? >> well, it might be, but it's not a very good place to go, don. that happens to have been the weakest article against richard nixon. the committee barely got a majority. it was a 21-17 vote. not all the democrats actually voted against nixon on that. so it was a weak read, and a lot of members didn't even want to take it to the f
backing you. >>> house speaker nancy pelosi hitting back at the white house. she says any efforts to hide the president's abuse of power will be considered evidence of obstruction. joining me to discuss now, john dean, douglas brinkley. gentlemen, good evening. good to see you. i just want to read this. this is from article 3 of the articles of impeachment drafted against richard nixon. it says, in his conduct of the office of president of the united states, richard m. nixon has failed...
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of other white house aides to the white house counsel's office and through the testimony of hill we know that bolton expressed himself sometimes in colorful terms. at one point describing rudy giuliani as, quote, a hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up. politically speaking, hearing from a conservative fixture like bolton could represent a light-out moment for donald trump on process and on substance bolton's participation in the impeachment inquiry could seal donald trump's fate as the first president in this country's history to be impeached for conditioning military aid for an american ally on political dirt on a domestic rival. and as dramatic as it would be, boltop's potential testimony may not even be necessary from the perspective of evidence-gathering. a crush of witnesses have corroborated the original whistle-blower complaint and when taken together with the president and rudy's own admissions, the picture of aid for dirt is clear as day to a majority of the public who now support the impeachment and removal of donald trump. "new york times" reports on what may come ne
of other white house aides to the white house counsel's office and through the testimony of hill we know that bolton expressed himself sometimes in colorful terms. at one point describing rudy giuliani as, quote, a hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up. politically speaking, hearing from a conservative fixture like bolton could represent a light-out moment for donald trump on process and on substance bolton's participation in the impeachment inquiry could seal donald trump's fate as...
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and i'll be honest, we can take the headline, white house stymies congress, white house refuses to hand over information, we could run that same headline every three months in this administration began. so i don't think for once the democrats are not shocked and amazed that the white house is lying or not providing information. they can have this vote whenever they want. here's the other key part about this. every piece of information that they have asked for, that this administration refuses to come forward with can be part of a complaint about obstruction of justice into an investigation of inappropriate behavior the president has already admitted to. that's their option, to take everything that donald trump is doing now and make that a part of their case in a stronger case that for once, according to the polls, not only are people in favor of the impeachment inquiry, but we have now moved to a point where americans are actually recent polls show, americans are in favor of donald trump being removed from office in a vote. that's something that works in the democrats' favor. >> interes
and i'll be honest, we can take the headline, white house stymies congress, white house refuses to hand over information, we could run that same headline every three months in this administration began. so i don't think for once the democrats are not shocked and amazed that the white house is lying or not providing information. they can have this vote whenever they want. here's the other key part about this. every piece of information that they have asked for, that this administration refuses...
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that is the white house in general. throughout our history that the occupant adapts to the office in the office adapts to the occupant. think mrs. nixon, like all first ladies, this finds all of them together. who careso person more about the success of the president and the presidency and the president's spouse. that is their single focus and that is something that will bind all of them together in what personare as the single who has experienced the ups and downs, and who at the end of the day is not like any other advisor. they are a different confidant. i think mrs. nixon does not get the credit for just what an incredible political mastermind that she was. this is the hardest working person on the president's campaign. to think about it and richard nixon's campaign he had gone from congressman to senator to vice president of the united states, and in all of these campaigns, some of them were difficult. 1952 running for the vice presidency when the scandal on the finances corrupted and how that personally wounded he
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the white house seems to be assembling some kind of team. how is the white house handling this? >> they're trying to play catch up. the democrats have been able to present a narrative by getting trump officials to testify and putting a damning story together of what president trump was doing tying aid to ukraine to political benefit for the president. now the president is realizing -- at least people around him are realizing they need some sort of messaging to push back. they're looking at hiring other officials. tony sayig got high marks in the white house for handling tax reform in 2017. they're trying to bring in people to help build a counter narrative. right now it's all being run by the president. he says i'm the team. he's orchestrating everything and a lot of that is based on his tweets. his tweets are becoming more erratic. earlier this week he talked about this being a lynching and the republicans had to respond to that. he spent a lot of time putting republicans in a tough spot where they have trouble defending his language and not knowing what the message is. they're
the white house seems to be assembling some kind of team. how is the white house handling this? >> they're trying to play catch up. the democrats have been able to present a narrative by getting trump officials to testify and putting a damning story together of what president trump was doing tying aid to ukraine to political benefit for the president. now the president is realizing -- at least people around him are realizing they need some sort of messaging to push back. they're looking...
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and the white house scrambles to deny a quid pro quo. withholding milityil aid to ukraine. >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. i have news for everybody, getbo over it. robert: next. announcer: this is "washington week." funding is provided by -- >> there's a moment, a moment of moment where everything ising, a clear. at fidelity, wealth planning isb t clarity, knowing who you are, where you've been, and where you want to go. that's fidelity wealth management. additional funding is provided by -- koo and patriciau , through the yuen foundation, committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. the corporation for blic broadcasting.ut and by contrns to your pbs station from viewers like you. thanyou. once again, from washington, moderator robert costa. robert:good evening. it has been a dramatic and violent week in syria and on friday, the fighting did ease. but many questions linger. the pause in t standoff between kurdish forces and turkey, brokered by vice president pence and secretary of state mike pompeo, rem
and the white house scrambles to deny a quid pro quo. withholding milityil aid to ukraine. >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. i have news for everybody, getbo over it. robert: next. announcer: this is "washington week." funding is provided by -- >> there's a moment, a moment of moment where everything ising, a clear. at fidelity, wealth planning isb t clarity, knowing who you are, where you've been, and where you want to go. that's fidelity wealth management....
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house, the white house would want him to testify. they clearly do not. how does the white house fight back against that argument? >> reporter: well, they'll make arguments about executive privilege, executive immunity, absolute immunity. you see that in all the letters. what schiff is basically saying is they're guilty by inference, they're guilty by not showing up. garrett hinted at this, but you clearly see the house moving towards a potential second article of impeachment on a broader obstruction charge. now, what does that do? that's a catch-all charge, but it also allows them potentially to accelerate the process. it's a strategic response to if the white house tries to slow walk this, the house can always say, look, we're going to slap you with obstruction as well. there are some other testimony later this week that i think may be complicated by the kupperman decision, namely we have tim morrison, a senior director for russia and youreurope, as well alex whitman. will barr, the attorney general, is expected to be here with the
house, the white house would want him to testify. they clearly do not. how does the white house fight back against that argument? >> reporter: well, they'll make arguments about executive privilege, executive immunity, absolute immunity. you see that in all the letters. what schiff is basically saying is they're guilty by inference, they're guilty by not showing up. garrett hinted at this, but you clearly see the house moving towards a potential second article of impeachment on a broader...
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it is material which purports to have originated at the white house. which you can see from the envelope. the stuff was apparently sent over from the white house to secretary of state mike pompeo's office in may of this year via his secretary, ruth. congressman raskin today described it as a packet of propaganda, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, indicating he does not think highly of the content of this packet of information. nbc news has published some of the images of contents of the packet. a couple of pages nbc news has appear to bolster this description of this being conspiracy theory stuff involving ukraine. but based on the timing and content of this material and the weird way it was delivered from the white house to secretary of state pompeo's office and then it ended up in the hands of the inspector general who ultimately felt like congress needed to see it given the impeachment proceedings under way, the story emerging here is that this stapled and calligraphied and highlighted stack of nonsense printed out from the internet may have
it is material which purports to have originated at the white house. which you can see from the envelope. the stuff was apparently sent over from the white house to secretary of state mike pompeo's office in may of this year via his secretary, ruth. congressman raskin today described it as a packet of propaganda, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, indicating he does not think highly of the content of this packet of information. nbc news has published some of the images of contents of the...
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he was at the white house. two sources tell cnn he will not join the administration instead helping from the outside, joining me now to to discuss this we should know he is a partner makinging a he does not have representation in the case. it's good to have you here today. i wonder if you can tell us one thing on the whistle blowers. your partner says he represents multiple whistle blowers. is that the two we know, can you clarify? >>ly have to leave it to the legal team. they 're the only ones who can speak on behalf of the clients that they are representing that have brought forth these claims. >> okay. >> let's talk about the congressional oversight, it is blocking both witnesses and docume documents even those under subpoena. it appears the democrat's only strategy is to fight that in the courts. you and i know it could take weeks and months. how and when is this involved? >> i think it has become a question for house democrats. do they view this as one all encompassing obstruction or impeding the articles
he was at the white house. two sources tell cnn he will not join the administration instead helping from the outside, joining me now to to discuss this we should know he is a partner makinging a he does not have representation in the case. it's good to have you here today. i wonder if you can tell us one thing on the whistle blowers. your partner says he represents multiple whistle blowers. is that the two we know, can you clarify? >>ly have to leave it to the legal team. they 're the...
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i'm sure they'll get instructions from the white house. if they do and they fail appear, they will be building a very powerful case against the president for obstruction. each time the white house steps in to obstruct congress from getting documents and we know now that there are any number of very important relevant documents the state department is withholding from congress. they also withhold witnesses and forced them to refuse to appear or attempt to ignore lawful process, they will build the obstruction case against the president. in terms of how we will use litigation, we are not willing to allow the white house to engage us in the lengthy game in the courts. we'll press forward. [indiscernible] >> no. we will not allow the white house to delay our investigation. any acts of obstruction of this, any effort to prevent the congress and the american people from learning more about the president's misconduct, will build a public case for obstruction of congress by this president. let's keep in mind what we have learned in two short weeks
i'm sure they'll get instructions from the white house. if they do and they fail appear, they will be building a very powerful case against the president for obstruction. each time the white house steps in to obstruct congress from getting documents and we know now that there are any number of very important relevant documents the state department is withholding from congress. they also withhold witnesses and forced them to refuse to appear or attempt to ignore lawful process, they will build...
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i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house. but when the break-in occurred, i said oh no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant. and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house consultant. >> they thought they were james bond. we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> prosecutor earl silbert read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low-ranking white house lawyer and several former employees of the committee to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, if you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how y
i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house. but when the break-in occurred, i said oh no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant. and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house consultant. >> they thought they were james bond. we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> prosecutor earl...
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quote, heard from white house. assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to washington. but that did not happen. instead, by september 1st with military aid to ukraine still on hold, top u.s. diplomat to ukraine bill taylor was texting sondland, are we now saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations, to which gordon sondland replies, call me. that's just a sampling of evidence and the picture it paints. meantime in the face of all this, president trump, also known as his own best whistle-blower, went on the south lawn again, still trying to sell the idea that none of this had anything to do with the bidens or 2016. no, none of it. only corruption. just listen. >> everything to me is about corruption. i don't care about biden's campaign, but i do care about corruption. what i want to do and i think i have an obligation to do it, probably a duty to do it, corruption. we are lookin
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he's still a white house employee. but he was most important to this conversation because he was on that phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine that kicked off this entire impeachment inquiry. so he could speak to the phone call. he could also to speak to bolton, who they want to get in here, reacted to it. but he's now the first person to take this issue of the bat the between congress and the white house to the courts this is not his battle to decide essentially. he wants the judicial branch to weigh in on whether or not it's appropriate for him to follow a congressionally mandated subpoena or the guidance of the white house, which is not to come testify. you heard adam schiff saying that's not good enough. they are going to put his lack of forthcomingness to speak to the committee in a bucket that says he's obstructing and he must thehave something damning say. they are hoping to essentially move on with the inquiry. >> there has been, as you know, a fair amount of consequential testimony al
he's still a white house employee. but he was most important to this conversation because he was on that phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine that kicked off this entire impeachment inquiry. so he could speak to the phone call. he could also to speak to bolton, who they want to get in here, reacted to it. but he's now the first person to take this issue of the bat the between congress and the white house to the courts this is not his battle to decide essentially. he...
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white house. >>> let's go to capitol hill now. our senior congressional correspondent manu raju is on the scene. that closed-door briefing by the inspector general has just wrapped up. what are you learning? >> reporter: after the inspector general said this was an urgent briefing and convened several key commits, the members who attended and the staffers who emerged end up scratching their heads after hearing exactly what the inspector general found which was a 40-page document full of what one lawmaker jamie raskin calls conspiracy theories about the ukraine matter, about joe biden, and also targeting the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch who was recalled from her post in may of 2019. the question is who is pushing this document. the state department confirmed it provided the inspector general with this document that was labelled from the white house. of course there was not clear if this was written by someone at the white house. or if this person had any connection to it. but
white house. >>> let's go to capitol hill now. our senior congressional correspondent manu raju is on the scene. that closed-door briefing by the inspector general has just wrapped up. what are you learning? >> reporter: after the inspector general said this was an urgent briefing and convened several key commits, the members who attended and the staffers who emerged end up scratching their heads after hearing exactly what the inspector general found which was a 40-page document...
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adding the white house aid was shaken. now despite the white house insisting they will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry they are gearing up for it. sources te sources saying that they hired trey gowdy for an attorney. he met with mick mulvaney. erse >> huh. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst and cnn political analyst to talk about all of this crazy and frightening and now trey gowdy has made an entrance. remember the reprieve when they handed over a transcript and whistleblower can complaint and they said stone walling done full stop. is that going to stop the bleeding now? >> i don't think so. they're trying one too, prevent the democrats from having any additional facts because they do realize, as you point out, that the facts they did release, the reads out of the phone calls on a full transcript and the whusal blower complaint really did open up -- i think they thought that might stop impeachment from going forward and quite the opposite happened. new people came forward and a new amount of facts came forwa
adding the white house aid was shaken. now despite the white house insisting they will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry they are gearing up for it. sources te sources saying that they hired trey gowdy for an attorney. he met with mick mulvaney. erse >> huh. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst and cnn political analyst to talk about all of this crazy and frightening and now trey gowdy has made an entrance. remember the reprieve when they handed over a transcript and...
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white house. kevin, thank you. joining us now from florida, congresswoman val demings, a democrat on the house intelligence committee, and the former orlando police chief, congresswoman, welcome to "fox news sunday." >> representative demings: good morning, chris, it's great to be here. >> chris: based on the witness is that the committee heard from this week, based on the documents that you have received, do believe that there is no hard evidence that president trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors, and do you believe that the house will now vote to impeach him? >> representative demings: welcome chris, let me begin here, as you've already indicated, i served a lot of years in law enforcement. i had the honor of serving in every rank at my department. i even was appointed to chief of police. i took that job very seriously as i take this job. when i made the decision to run for congress, i said that the safety and security of our nation is my number one priority, as it should be, because th
white house. kevin, thank you. joining us now from florida, congresswoman val demings, a democrat on the house intelligence committee, and the former orlando police chief, congresswoman, welcome to "fox news sunday." >> representative demings: good morning, chris, it's great to be here. >> chris: based on the witness is that the committee heard from this week, based on the documents that you have received, do believe that there is no hard evidence that president trump...
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white house to defy the white house and come and testify in this inquiry. and so that suggests that there will be many more and that it would be hard for the white house to stop oerps such as former national security adviser john bolton who clearly have important information to bear from coming forward number one. number two. >> yes. >> this testimony, it really tends to implicate the president very directly. i'm struck by that. you know, in watergate in the nixon era, you essentially had months and months even a couple of years worth of inquiry that was asking the question well what did the president know and when did he know it? but president trump by contrast in this ukraine plot was really directing and very much involved and at the center of the action. all of these people are testifying in various ways about things that the president personally did, for example, he personally ordered gordon sondland, the eu ambassador, the ambassador to brussels be involved in ukraine policy, according to what sondland told fiona him. he said well butt out because don
white house to defy the white house and come and testify in this inquiry. and so that suggests that there will be many more and that it would be hard for the white house to stop oerps such as former national security adviser john bolton who clearly have important information to bear from coming forward number one. number two. >> yes. >> this testimony, it really tends to implicate the president very directly. i'm struck by that. you know, in watergate in the nixon era, you...
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according to this white house counsel. even a conversation with someone who never worked for the president is privileged or could be, according to white house counsel. even a conversation in which two people, neither of them are the president, may be privileged. it's unrecognizable. our conversation may be privileged, according to the white house counsel. reporter: i hope not. mr. schiff: i hope not too. [laughter] it goes to show the legally insupportable position of the white house. and indeed you see this now reflected in court decision after court decision after court decision where judges have said the administration's legal arguments hold no water. but what they are succeeding in doing is building a case involving obstruction of congress. reporter: the white house said it's not cooperating in part because there hasn't been a vote to formalize this impeachment inquiry. why not hold a vote and call the white house's bluff? mr. schiff: i'll let the speaker respond to that. i think the constitution is very clear. the hou
according to this white house counsel. even a conversation with someone who never worked for the president is privileged or could be, according to white house counsel. even a conversation in which two people, neither of them are the president, may be privileged. it's unrecognizable. our conversation may be privileged, according to the white house counsel. reporter: i hope not. mr. schiff: i hope not too. [laughter] it goes to show the legally insupportable position of the white house. and...
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kelly o'donnell at the white house. thank you. >>> today is a milestone in the road to the white house. 100 days from today the first true measure of who is ahead in the democrats' race for president. iowa voters begin caucuses february 3rd. three weeks later, south carolina will hold its primary. it will be the first in the south and today several candidates, you can see on the right, are at the same event in the capital city of columbia, south carolina. senator amy klobuchar expected to take the stage at this presidential criminal justice forum. a live picture there from columbia. candidates introducing plans to reform the system all day long and a bit of controversy, i should mention, involving the schedule and senator kamala harris. harris initially pulled out of the forum at a historically black college after only a limited number were allowed to attend and given an award why in same event. nbc news reporter joins us from outside that forum. curious about one thing. senator harris is now, has now decided to rejoin
kelly o'donnell at the white house. thank you. >>> today is a milestone in the road to the white house. 100 days from today the first true measure of who is ahead in the democrats' race for president. iowa voters begin caucuses february 3rd. three weeks later, south carolina will hold its primary. it will be the first in the south and today several candidates, you can see on the right, are at the same event in the capital city of columbia, south carolina. senator amy klobuchar expected...
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that's alarming to this white house. each senator, as they walked from the train up to their office to the vote, they would tell us, sorry, can't comment. i'm not going to be a juror in this possible senate trial. and you have a lot of unease behind the scenes among those senate republicans because they don't know the facts. every day's a new day. bringing another ambassador, another national security official, who is not singing in unison with the white house when it comes to the president's conduct. >> and jeremy bash, witnesses who are active duty or retired military also bring a bearing and an ethos that a lot of civilians don't have. chiefly, chain of command. this guy is prepared to testify that twice he kicked it up the line to the chief counsel in the nsc. he is the kind of witness, it appears, who could do some thorough damage. >> lieutenant colonel vindman is a soldier, a wounded iraq war veteran, combat veteran, someone who clearly is not a partisan actor and doesn't really even have a policy ax to grind. he's
that's alarming to this white house. each senator, as they walked from the train up to their office to the vote, they would tell us, sorry, can't comment. i'm not going to be a juror in this possible senate trial. and you have a lot of unease behind the scenes among those senate republicans because they don't know the facts. every day's a new day. bringing another ambassador, another national security official, who is not singing in unison with the white house when it comes to the president's...
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, white house declares war on impeachment. i mean, the basis of this claim from the trump white house was this sort of astonishing letter signed by the white house counsel, a letter to congress telling congress that the entire administration, the whole executive branch would be carrying on as if impeachment wasn't happening. they would not be responding to any document requests. they would not be allowing any witness from any point in any part of the administration to come forward and cooperate with the impeachment inquiry because the impeachment is illegal. it's unconstitutional or illegal or very bad or something. i mean, the letter was -- it started off, quote, i write on behalf of president donald j. trump in response to your numerous legally unsupported demands made as part of what you have labeled contrary to the constitution, a scare, quote, impeachment inquiry. and then it's sort of downhill from there. president trump and his administration reject your baseless unconstitutional efforts to overturn the democratic proce
, white house declares war on impeachment. i mean, the basis of this claim from the trump white house was this sort of astonishing letter signed by the white house counsel, a letter to congress telling congress that the entire administration, the whole executive branch would be carrying on as if impeachment wasn't happening. they would not be responding to any document requests. they would not be allowing any witness from any point in any part of the administration to come forward and cooperate...
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house, andrea. >> phil rucker, as the head of the white house team for "the washington post," we're seeing such chaos in terms of no guardrails around the president, as kristen was just mentioning. and the secretary of state now in rome today, pushing back and repeating what he outlined in a very controversial and confrontational letter to the hill yesterday, saying state department officials cannot testify without state department lawyers being in the room, that they have to go through channels, through legislative affairs, not directly to the officials who want to speak out including, importantly, the former ambassador to ukraine who was forced out of that job because of, we understand, objections to rudy giuliani's shadow diplomacy, and kurt volker, who quit the state department on friday night, i guess rather than be impeded by pompeo and his objections. so pompeo today repeated that. i just want to play senator murphy with rachel maddow last night saying that pompeo's citations are completely wrong as far as house and senate democrats are concerned. >> he absolutely is not with
house, andrea. >> phil rucker, as the head of the white house team for "the washington post," we're seeing such chaos in terms of no guardrails around the president, as kristen was just mentioning. and the secretary of state now in rome today, pushing back and repeating what he outlined in a very controversial and confrontational letter to the hill yesterday, saying state department officials cannot testify without state department lawyers being in the room, that they have to go...
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cupperman and bolton were close allies in the white house. cupperman was bolton's ally and they used the same lawyer. bolton may use the same legal strategy to figure out whether he can be compelled to come here and testify. cupperman makes this very interesting constitutional argument or at least the white house makes it on his behalf saying he has constitutional immunity which is essentially executive privilege on steroids, the idea that he is an extension of the president and cannot be compelled to testify about advice or conversations that he had with the president of the united states. if that is expanded to other white house aides, it could be very frustrating for democrats who want to get closer and closer to that original phone call and to the decisions that president trump has made. but democrats so far have said they're not going to engage in protracted legal battles. they don't necessarily want to fight this out in the courts, particularly if it's going to take a long time. they will treat anyone who doesn't show up as potentially
cupperman and bolton were close allies in the white house. cupperman was bolton's ally and they used the same lawyer. bolton may use the same legal strategy to figure out whether he can be compelled to come here and testify. cupperman makes this very interesting constitutional argument or at least the white house makes it on his behalf saying he has constitutional immunity which is essentially executive privilege on steroids, the idea that he is an extension of the president and cannot be...
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so why is the white house claiming victory tonight? plus two major court hearings tonight that could change the course of the impeachment investigation. what we're learning from inside the courtroom. and a rising democrat embroiled in a scandal delivers a blistering farewell speech and tonight she leaves congress pointing fingers. let's go "out front". >>> good evening. i'm pamela brown in for erin burnett. "out front" tonight, the breaking news, the impeachment investigation now in high gear on this histori
so why is the white house claiming victory tonight? plus two major court hearings tonight that could change the course of the impeachment investigation. what we're learning from inside the courtroom. and a rising democrat embroiled in a scandal delivers a blistering farewell speech and tonight she leaves congress pointing fingers. let's go "out front". >>> good evening. i'm pamela brown in for erin burnett. "out front" tonight, the breaking news, the impeachment...
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a criminal acts, that's a white house official. people in the white house saw that it wasn't a perfect phone call. in fact, it was so far from perfect that a slew of people who had heard it were worried immediately that the law had been broken. here with me now one of "the washington post" reporters who's written about the relationship with ukraine greg miller who's also the author of "the apprentice, trump, russia and the subversion of american democracy." what have we learned to how central sondland was to this entire affair? good he shows up over and over to this crinology as you just laid out. he is basically really trying to impress the president. he donates a million dollars as you noted through hidden channel tuesday the inaugural committee so that he can get a position like this in government. and then as people in the white house told us even though he's ambassador to the eu, he is shuttling back to washington with such frequency seeking face time with the president they started joking he's more ambassador to the west wing
a criminal acts, that's a white house official. people in the white house saw that it wasn't a perfect phone call. in fact, it was so far from perfect that a slew of people who had heard it were worried immediately that the law had been broken. here with me now one of "the washington post" reporters who's written about the relationship with ukraine greg miller who's also the author of "the apprentice, trump, russia and the subversion of american democracy." what have we...
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when you said the white house strategy, i think jay rhodes said there is no white house. there is no coordinated strategy. do you think the white house, quote/unquote wanted donald trump to stand up and say china you should investigate joe biden too. i'm sure that wasn't part of the political strategy. he goes out and says mad stuff and as long as he continues to do that, he'll continue to dig his hole and how will democrats enforce it and what will you do to officials that don't turn up. and whose idea is to hire trey gowdy and you saw the video -- he's done a u-turn like lindsey graham. the guy who had the fake benghazi inquiry when there was no story is the guy you will go to discredit what was a real story. >> and it is a way to put rudy on the sidelines more. >> perhaps. >> trey gowdy is all over television, i'm very curious to see how interviews go because i imagine they will begin frequently with the clip of the benghazi investigation. and lawmakers have not been in town which is hard to remember because some have been because they thut they would get witnesses but
when you said the white house strategy, i think jay rhodes said there is no white house. there is no coordinated strategy. do you think the white house, quote/unquote wanted donald trump to stand up and say china you should investigate joe biden too. i'm sure that wasn't part of the political strategy. he goes out and says mad stuff and as long as he continues to do that, he'll continue to dig his hole and how will democrats enforce it and what will you do to officials that don't turn up. and...
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how might the white house use that? >> so we know they're already using it -- at least they're implying that they might use it. so that could work. again, the executive privilege means that the president should be able to have private conversations with his top-level officials, understanding that they're not going to be subject to public scrutiny. so i think courts will take that seriously. there haven't been a whole lot of court cases on it because what usually happens is that the white house and the congress work it out. and the trump administration does not work it out with the house. but again, then it's up to the courts, and that just feeds into their strategy for delay, delay, delay, all they want is to make it to the 2020 election, and then the political stakes are much lower. >> berit, we have seen this president say things in public, and if you're critical of what the president has done so far, you will say when he's reaching out to ukraine, when he's reaching out to china, reaching out to russia for assistance
how might the white house use that? >> so we know they're already using it -- at least they're implying that they might use it. so that could work. again, the executive privilege means that the president should be able to have private conversations with his top-level officials, understanding that they're not going to be subject to public scrutiny. so i think courts will take that seriously. there haven't been a whole lot of court cases on it because what usually happens is that the white...
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white house. the people that were involved in this, whether or not these figures are here. the other thing to point out is that -- because she lost her documents at the white house, and i think part of the subpoena is a suggestion on the part of the democrats that we want to pull her here, but we're putting you on alert, that we're going to go after the documents that belonged to her that were in that orbit through some way shape or form. that we intend to get our hands on this had a. this is about a setup between democrats and the white house, but also the materials and the narrative that actually took place, and democrats trying to set up a story and an environment forehow and what occurred. >> they want documents, they want materials, they also want her testimony, right? >> so what kind of information could she provide on all things ukraine and we add to that, she's a big put ing critic, she wrote two books on it. what information could she provide on the trump putin interaction. >> for two yea
white house. the people that were involved in this, whether or not these figures are here. the other thing to point out is that -- because she lost her documents at the white house, and i think part of the subpoena is a suggestion on the part of the democrats that we want to pull her here, but we're putting you on alert, that we're going to go after the documents that belonged to her that were in that orbit through some way shape or form. that we intend to get our hands on this had a. this is...
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on the white house strategy, this has caught the white house off guard. it caught a lot of us off guard, but the white house was not prepared to be in this situation right now. and so the strategy the is basically the president's twitter account. he is leading his own defense. it's vastly different than what we saw in the clinton impeachment where clinton himself tried to act as though he was governing, act as though he was doing things on behalf of the american people. trump all in on impeachment. he is going to be leading his own defense. i think the big question for the white house is about their practical cooperation with congress. if they choose to stonewall on documents, on interviews, that actually guarantee it is his impeach. , and if it focuses on an obstruction of congress is a definite for democrats. chris: josh, you are our senate expert as the foreman chief of staff to mitch mcconnell. let's assume the house votes sometime november, december, whatever to impeach the president, they need 67 votes. there are 47 democrats, that means that you wo
on the white house strategy, this has caught the white house off guard. it caught a lot of us off guard, but the white house was not prepared to be in this situation right now. and so the strategy the is basically the president's twitter account. he is leading his own defense. it's vastly different than what we saw in the clinton impeachment where clinton himself tried to act as though he was governing, act as though he was doing things on behalf of the american people. trump all in on...
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i think people respected in the white house. it is constantly an evolving relationship between the east and west wing and in some cases it is better than others. i don't think there's any secret that mrs. next and was frustrated -- nixon was frustrated. he did not stop her from doing what came next to her and what she felt she could do to make a contribution, so i would say my experience was the same way and i remember when i interviewed with her, the first thing she said is not here for myself, i'm here for george and because of , it helpedwith that me get access to the things i needed to help and people knew that and for that reason we had a successful run. othersome point you and got the title assistant to the president. there was some recognition in the east wing that they had a role to play. early days, k writes that no first lady had a more fraught relationship with west wing than pat because bob wanted to run everything. houseme to the white after they were gone, i think. >> i miss them. >> there were those in the adminis
i think people respected in the white house. it is constantly an evolving relationship between the east and west wing and in some cases it is better than others. i don't think there's any secret that mrs. next and was frustrated -- nixon was frustrated. he did not stop her from doing what came next to her and what she felt she could do to make a contribution, so i would say my experience was the same way and i remember when i interviewed with her, the first thing she said is not here for...
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is the white house saying criticism on that front? i think there will be criticism alayna: not pulling troops completely as the president had said i was a campaign promise. i think most people are of the mind we are seeing republicans being some of the most outraged over the issue. they want people there, they isis and thee that other terrorist organizations fill this vacuum with troops in place so we do not fall back into a pattern of what we saw over the past few years. i think there's reports we have seen from the new york times and wall street journal overnight that some troops may be capped there to help defend the kurds and tried to prevent isis from researching. it will be interesting messaging for the white house. jason: some of the oil wells there are a place the troops would protect. alayna: we've seen the president referred to protecting the oil fields in syria frequently throughout. people have raised eyebrows saying is that what we are protecting? not the kurds? that is definitely a location that the president has been wa
is the white house saying criticism on that front? i think there will be criticism alayna: not pulling troops completely as the president had said i was a campaign promise. i think most people are of the mind we are seeing republicans being some of the most outraged over the issue. they want people there, they isis and thee that other terrorist organizations fill this vacuum with troops in place so we do not fall back into a pattern of what we saw over the past few years. i think there's...
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the real sham process quite frankly is coming out of the white house. what we know based on what this president has admitted, based on what his acting chief of staff has admitted, based on the testimony we know has come out of the intelligence committee, i mean, this is serious stuff. and so we can -- some can continue to circle the wagons around the white house and make believe there's nothing there, but i don't know by any measure how people cannot be shocked by what's going on. >> that's the chair of the house rules committee, congressman jim mcgovern speaking tonight shortly before his committee voted to advance the official text of an impeachment resolution that will be voted on tomorrow by the full house of representatives. it's an eight-page resolution. it calls for public hearings and authorizes the intelligence committee to publicly release transcripts of depositions taken for witnesses thus far. it also says the intelligence committee has to compile a final report on its findings from this inquiry, a report which will be released to the public
the real sham process quite frankly is coming out of the white house. what we know based on what this president has admitted, based on what his acting chief of staff has admitted, based on the testimony we know has come out of the intelligence committee, i mean, this is serious stuff. and so we can -- some can continue to circle the wagons around the white house and make believe there's nothing there, but i don't know by any measure how people cannot be shocked by what's going on. >>...
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at the white house tonight. and that would be news in its own right just like that, but it's a particularly intriguing piece of news given that tomorrow morning that same official, tim morrison, is due to give testimony behind closed doors in the impeachment proceedings against the president. i don't know if we're going to get an opening statement or any other read out from morrison's deposition tomorrow, but watch this space. and that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for the "last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. question for raja krishnamoorthi. a member of the committee that will be hearing these depositions tomorrow. we'll see if mr. morrison shows up. >> that's one way to sort of curtain raise on your testimony, resign the day before you do it. >> thank you, rachel. >>> we'll be joined tonight by someone who served as a juror in the impeachment trial of the president of the united states. former democratic senator russ feingold of wisconsin will tell
at the white house tonight. and that would be news in its own right just like that, but it's a particularly intriguing piece of news given that tomorrow morning that same official, tim morrison, is due to give testimony behind closed doors in the impeachment proceedings against the president. i don't know if we're going to get an opening statement or any other read out from morrison's deposition tomorrow, but watch this space. and that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. now...
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substantively we're told it doesn't change the thrust of what the white house call but the white house said they gave complete transcripts of this. these were real things in real words that were omitted according to colonel vindman. >> we knew from the gimg that this was not the transcript the way a court reporter does in a courtroom, but any removals we were told were incidental and not substantive. well, what makes vindman's testimony in this area explosive is that there was an effort to censor politically explosive things. that people involved in the preparation of this transcript had in effect a consciousness of guilt. they knew that this was politically explosive, damaging material and they schemed to keep it out. who did that and at whose direction is of course a mystery. >> can you talk more about that, consciousness of guilt and why someone might want, you know, a record of the president speaking in much greater specificity about what he wanted and what he was directing the ukrainian president to do. >> if you were a white house official who knew that it was inappropriate, an a
substantively we're told it doesn't change the thrust of what the white house call but the white house said they gave complete transcripts of this. these were real things in real words that were omitted according to colonel vindman. >> we knew from the gimg that this was not the transcript the way a court reporter does in a courtroom, but any removals we were told were incidental and not substantive. well, what makes vindman's testimony in this area explosive is that there was an effort...
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if the white house counsel's office, the white house lawyers are doing something to try to expose the identity, are you suggesting then the story means that the white house lawyers may be trying to break the law? >> add it to the list, ari. but, again, let's remember why it is that anonymity is extended to the whistle-blower. because it makes us safer. we want people within the national security environment and within the intelligence community to reveal, to point out, to disclose, to put a spotlight on wrongdoing so that we can stop it, and if we make them feel safe that they can come forward with the identification of wrongdoing, they'll be more likely to do so. ergo, we'll be safer. >> congresswoman? >> well, i think what we're really seeing is a witch hunt undertaken by the white house. he wants to find out who is the whistle-blower for one reason and one reason only, so he can besmirch that individual, can tear that person down and can do what he does to so many other people who challenge him, and that is to destroy him. we want to make sure that doesn't happen. that's why we wer
if the white house counsel's office, the white house lawyers are doing something to try to expose the identity, are you suggesting then the story means that the white house lawyers may be trying to break the law? >> add it to the list, ari. but, again, let's remember why it is that anonymity is extended to the whistle-blower. because it makes us safer. we want people within the national security environment and within the intelligence community to reveal, to point out, to disclose, to put...
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costa. >> house democrats are appalled by the white house in this administration. their decision to block witnesses in addition to blocking all of these documents. we're seeing the beginning of a drawn out fight that is almost unprecedented in american history. congress being tested as an institution. >> only because it is such a unprecedented day, so surprise that democrats are appalled. >> i would love to send ambassador sondland to testify but he would be testifying before a compromised kangaroo court where rights have been taken away and true facts are not allowed out. importantly his tweet which few reported i think you're incorrect about president trump's intentions, no quid pro quo s quos of any kind. i want to share a tweet by chris hayes. the reason sondland is so dangerous is he was speaking directly to the president. >> so unfortunately the president is not playing out any sort of legal argument in the constitution. it say most where that you don't have to comply with congressional requests. if you don't like what the questions are or if you this it is a
costa. >> house democrats are appalled by the white house in this administration. their decision to block witnesses in addition to blocking all of these documents. we're seeing the beginning of a drawn out fight that is almost unprecedented in american history. congress being tested as an institution. >> only because it is such a unprecedented day, so surprise that democrats are appalled. >> i would love to send ambassador sondland to testify but he would be testifying before...
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secretary pompeo in the white house. it may have come from the white house, it may have not. we don't know. there is a series of folders which all come from. folder after holder. i don't have time to fully scrutinize everything in here. it's essentially a packet of propaganda and disinformation spreading conspiracy theories. those conspiracy theories have been widely debunked and discredited. apparently, the material came in may of this year. it coincided with the moment in which the ambassador was recalled. so it was clearly targeting her as well as some other people. the inspector general turned it over to the fbi and has not done anything else internally with it at the department of state, as far as we understand. when the whistleblower report came out, he felt that he needed to turn it over to congress. we are now in possession of this packet of propaganda and disinformation that was circulated in may. peopleions a number of we were planning to see, most notably, ambassador jovanovich. secretary state pompeo is trying to block her from coming. we don't think he will succe
secretary pompeo in the white house. it may have come from the white house, it may have not. we don't know. there is a series of folders which all come from. folder after holder. i don't have time to fully scrutinize everything in here. it's essentially a packet of propaganda and disinformation spreading conspiracy theories. those conspiracy theories have been widely debunked and discredited. apparently, the material came in may of this year. it coincided with the moment in which the ambassador...
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the white house aides sought a cost for. if all those methods failed, the president suggested that soldiers to shoot migrants on the legs to slow them down. president trump denied this earlier today. nbc has reported the plan included reinstated the family separation. using border agents to conduct a asylum interviews. that one actually went through. i want to note one thing. if you are remembering, ali, the interview that ivanka trump did with abc news where she referenced the child separation policy being a low point in the administration. i wonder where ivanka trump's first daughter senior advisor to president trump feel now since it has been brought up again. >> he was the custom and border protection chief at the time. in a new interview. he expressed among other things of his frustration that his own department is being used for a partisan immigration agenda. he maintains operational control of the dhs and told "the washington post" what i don't have control over is the tone, the message and the public faith and approa
the white house aides sought a cost for. if all those methods failed, the president suggested that soldiers to shoot migrants on the legs to slow them down. president trump denied this earlier today. nbc has reported the plan included reinstated the family separation. using border agents to conduct a asylum interviews. that one actually went through. i want to note one thing. if you are remembering, ali, the interview that ivanka trump did with abc news where she referenced the child separation...
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whether or not they can shake anything loose from the white house. >> got it. keith, i want to ask you, too, about this. just yesterday the trump doj, justice department, argued a watergate ruling a judge allowed congress to see a secret grand jury report on nixon was incorrect to which the judge, also noteworthy, the judge responded, wow. the department of justice is taking an extraordinary position in this case. i mean, you laugh, everyone else does like, hearing this judge write how she, what she said, but they are basically arguing, my interpretation, this president is above the law? >> they are extremely bold comments. and that judge's reaction is reflective on how lots of lawyers including jumps are likely to react to the kinds of arguments the administration is now mustering. i think increasingly the administration is in the territory where really it's making political arguments not really legal arguments. they're not arguments that are designed to persuade lawyers that there's some kind of decent constitutional grounds for what the administration wants
whether or not they can shake anything loose from the white house. >> got it. keith, i want to ask you, too, about this. just yesterday the trump doj, justice department, argued a watergate ruling a judge allowed congress to see a secret grand jury report on nixon was incorrect to which the judge, also noteworthy, the judge responded, wow. the department of justice is taking an extraordinary position in this case. i mean, you laugh, everyone else does like, hearing this judge write how...
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road because the white house is putting it out there. there is a cycle of intentionally bad information that is going out there. >> yeah. this is the point of it. you can see it here. it starts at 4-chan, gets to read it and infowars. once it gets to the talk radio, then it starts to confirm this guy on 4 chan posted a thing he knew was false. by the time it got to news outlets, people start to believe their own madness and it confirms things that are unconfirmable. >> you have been reporting on this for quite some time. you kind of wrote the book on how all of this got started. where does it end? >> that's a really good question. i mean, it ends when we as a nation start deciding that facts are facts. you don't get to choose your own facts. there has always been a partisan angle to what you believe and see. at the end of the day, either biden gets out of the race and the falsehoods about biden's sons don't matter anymore or we made a decision on what we're going to listen to and believe and actually look at as facts. >> we have to be vi
road because the white house is putting it out there. there is a cycle of intentionally bad information that is going out there. >> yeah. this is the point of it. you can see it here. it starts at 4-chan, gets to read it and infowars. once it gets to the talk radio, then it starts to confirm this guy on 4 chan posted a thing he knew was false. by the time it got to news outlets, people start to believe their own madness and it confirms things that are unconfirmable. >> you have been...
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there was no indictment of the president or people within the white house. think a lot of the house judiciary committee is excited about this opportunity to dig into the grand jury testimony and able to see some details they didn't get to originally. >> what's the next move for the white house? what are they going to do? >> i think they'll appeal. as elena pointed out, i think behind the scenes, they're now starting to take this a bit more seriously in the sense they recognize this is going to be something that potentially will not be wrapped up by the end of the calendar year. the expectation was that this whole impeachment process would be something that would be quick, that it would be designed for cable news. they would be able to move on from it relatively quickly. now the working assumption in washington mass pushed this beyond christmas. beyond the holiday break. and really could head into the first quarter of next year. which obviously has implications into the election cycle as well. >> looking at iowa. >> and all this. >> while the president procla
there was no indictment of the president or people within the white house. think a lot of the house judiciary committee is excited about this opportunity to dig into the grand jury testimony and able to see some details they didn't get to originally. >> what's the next move for the white house? what are they going to do? >> i think they'll appeal. as elena pointed out, i think behind the scenes, they're now starting to take this a bit more seriously in the sense they recognize this...