We have one of the top impeachment investigators here along with some of the best legal and political minds. First, lets look big picture. Well review some of the biggest headlines to dom out of the first week of impeachment tv. Heres cnn. Historic day in the nations capitol. Reporter historic public hearings. Impeachment inquiry to determine whether the president abused his power for personal gain. Wednesdays hearing was unlike any other congressional hearing because of the gravity of the moment. Reporter the weeks first big headline came in the Opening Statement from bill taylor. The top u. S. Official in ukraine. As he revealed a direct link between the president on the push for ukraine to investigate the bidens. In the presence of my staff at a restaurant. Sondland called trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. The member of my staff would hear trump on the phone asking sondland about the investigation. The big bomb shell. Taylor testifying that one of his staffers over heard a call. We learned something new. Sondland had a direct phone call with the president. What President Trump thought about ukraine. Sondland responded trump cares more about the investigation of biden which giuliani was pressing for. Taylors bomb shell raised questions about the motivation of sondland. Ambassador to the eu and Million Dollar trump donor. 48 hours later the staffer who told taylor of the call david holmes confirmed the account in close door testimony. I have obtained the Opening Statement from the aid. According to the testimony this aide over heard ambassador sondland telling President Trump that the president of ukraine would do anything that President Trump wanted and what did President Trump want . He wanted an investigation into joe biden. That was the one thing he was pushing for. Reporter in front of the camera, taylor and kent a Senior State Department official also out lined what they saw as competing u. S. Policy. Once i arrived in kiev i found it confusing and unusual arrangement for making policy towards ukraine. There were two channels. That Second Channel led by Rudy Giuliani. What interest do you believe he was promoting . I believe he was looking to dig up political dirt against a potential rival in the next election cycle. I agree with mr. Kent. Ambassador taylor said in decades of service he had never heard of a president trading a personal need for an official act. And that really throws cold water on the notion that this was in some way part of the actual foreign policy. At issue, congressionally approved military aide. Which ukraine neepded to defend itself against russia and a white house visit for ukraines new president. President zelensky. Taylor testified it was clear to him that both were conditional. On zelensky publicly announcing an investigation into the bidens. Its one thing to try to leverage a meeting in the white house. Its another thing to leverage Security Assistance, Security Assistance to a country at war. Dependent on both the Security Assistance and the demonstration of support. Reporter as friday dawned and an anticipation grew for the next witness. Yovanovitch. Pulled from her post in may. Ambassador yovanovitch is an important witness for the democrats. She could demonstrate this campaign led by the president s personal attorney giuliani to push her out and to push for the investigations into joe biden. Their goal in having her testify was to detail how this ran counter to the National Interest of the United States. In a detailed Opening Statement, yovanovitch out lined both confusion and concern. About her removal. Ukrainians who prefer to play by the old corrupt rules sought to remove me. What continues to amaze me is that they found americans willing to partner with them and working together they succeeded. Less than 90 minutes into the hearing a interruption from chairman schiff. As we sit here testifying the president is attacking you on twitter. What effect does that have on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrong doing . Its very intimidating. Bennett of the United States if you come forward will personally seek to destroy you and your reputation. Thats what the president of the United States is doing in realtime. A short time later the president pushed back. You know what, i have the right to speak. I have freedom of speech. Throughout the hearing republicans continue to attack the process. What is the sprupinterruptio this time . You are not recognized. The Ranking Member yielded time. Pushed democrats to bring the whistleblower into testify. Subpoena the whistleblower for a closed door secret deposition. One witness that they wont bring in front of us. They wont bring in front of the American People. The guy who started it all. They want to put the spotlight on this person. Who they believe was a political actor. Not what the attorneys of the whistleblower says and the democrats say theyre trying to out an american citizen who is trying to do his or her duty to reveal wrong doing in government. At times it felt like the lawmakers were at two different hearings and they are competing for the same thing. That is the American People. Theres a fair question about to what extent were both sides trying to sort of shore up the people already on one side or another or fight for the middle ground. The committees ended the week with the first staffer from the office of management and budget to appear. What mark told congressional investigators was that he was sidelined in part of the conversation. About what to do with the u. S. Military aide. Eight witnesses will testify this week including ambassador sondland. His testimony will follow initials who have described the july 25th call as unusual. And the ambassador himself as problematic. If you needed to look at one thing that shows how political this is. The republicans asking for the whistleblower. But not upset the secretary of state at the former head security adviser and of course the chief of staff of the president all the men with firsthand knowledge wont come in. Thats the politics. What did week one mean in the mix . We have a key democrat who was in all the week one hearings. Next. Make fitness routine with pure protein. High protein. Low sugar. Tastes great high protein. Low sugar. So good high protein. Low sugar. Mmmm, birthday cake pure protein. The best combination for every fitness routine. Applebees new sizzlin entrees. Now starting at 9. 99. cause no matter how far away for you roam. Ys. When you pine for the sunshine of a friendly gaze. For the holidays you cant beat home sweet home. The United StatesPostal Service goes the extra mile to bring your holidays home. Some farms grow food. This one grows fuel. Exxonmobil is growing algae for biofuels. 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The roomba i7 with cleanng base automatic dirt disposal and allergenlock™ bags that trap 99 of allergens, so they dont escape back into the air. If its not from irobot, its not a roomba™ welcome back to white house in crisis the impeachment inquiry. This weeks public lean ip is full of people with firsthand accounts of the perceived Pressure Campaign on ukraine. Including witnesses who are on the july 25th call. Between trump and zelensky. And the first witness to speak directly with the president about the matters under investigation. That would be ambassador sondland. If there were one man to watch this week, it would be him. Now, many of the witnesses this week will take away the republicans early defense of he or she didnt know what happened firsthand. Thats going to go away. They used it when it worked. What will they use next . Lets bring in a democrat asking questions in the probe. Washington state congressman. I pulled a moment of you with former ambassador yovanovitch. Because i was taken by your emotion. Heres the moment. Im very angry. About how it is the most powerful person on the face of the earth would remove you from office after your Stellar Service and somehow feel compelled to characterize you as bad news. And then ominously threaten youre going to go through some things. I am angry. You were upset. You have been in there since 2012. You have seen ugly things. And from this president. Why this . Why did it get to me this in . Yes, sir. Theres no need for him to have done that. We acknowledge he has the Legal Authority to remove her as ambassador. To remove her as a consequence of a month long Smear Campaign is an act of cruelty. And lacking in decency. What you didnt play is what i said there after. Which is that absolutely nothing this president can say or do will in any way diminish the value of what ambassador yovanovitch has contributed to our nation. Nor will it diminish the gratitude on the part of so many of us for her selfless service. I agree. I think one of the good moments objectively to come out of the hearings, is the majority of the American People should feel wow, we have god people working for us. These women and men care about this stuff. They wont give opinion about impeachment. Were not here for you people were here to tell what we know. That was impressive. At least to me. Lets get to the state of play. The reason the president is saying yovanovitch is a bum. Is because thats what he needs to say. And thats what the republicans sitting in the room with you want everyone to believe. Shes a bum, these are deep state losers. They are part of the problem. And the culture this president stands against. And you and your fellow democrats dont like them. You try to use a political process to get rid of him and instead of dealing with him in the election that you cant win. What is your answer to the American People . Lets back up a short five days ago. Right at the beginning of the president s horrible no good very bad week. The American Public had an opportunity to actually see for themselves some of the out standing public servants. Secondly even for those who have been paying attention, maybe reading the reports or the depositions. Which is all ink on a page. They had a chance to see and hear from the people. Thirdly last week and perhaps next week, i didnt think the prospects were high last week but yet an opportunity to learn new information. Which is what happened. The bomb shell that taylor lit the fuse of and went off friday afternoon. Mr. Holmes came in and was deposed. It is not unfair in my opinion to ask where you think things stand in likelihood of terms of impeachment. Put the transcripts aside. Until they have been vetted lets say nothing exists from the other people. What is the percentage chance he gets impeached . Were only two hearings into a scheduled seven. Were only two hearings in to a scheduled seven. I say its a premature question. Ask me next week when the American Public had an opportunity to hear from a bunch of people on this. Almost all scheduled some of whom may not yet have been scheduled. Im with you. If there was nobody else and you had to vote on what you know, would you say i cant impeechl i dont know enough. I hes committed Impeachable Offense ts. Thats why im asking. So Many Democrats said that and youre giving me another answer. Which is not satisfying. Im sorry youre not satisfied, sir. We dont vote for impeachment in the abstract. We vote for articles. I suggest that my two favorite nominees for consideration would be obstruction of congress and abuse of power. How else can you characterize shaking down a foreign government. A direct violation of federal law. Holding needed vital Security Assistance and our own for his own personal political gain. I never understood the quid pro quo talk. Why it doesnt matter. This was an attempted bribe. Thats your argument. Attempted bribe. Youre not arguing extortion. The democrats, we have no show of force. Extortion is make this interview nice or ill punch you in the nose. This was at the same timed bribe. I have seen video tapes of you. I would never make that comment. Just because i have a big mouth doesnt mean i can back it up. It seems playing to me at this point. That Many Democrats and i want your opinion. Do you believe that the president of the United States was making decisions about what to do with ukraine that were largely a function of his belief and conspiracy theories and in effort to get advantage over biden . More the ladder. Its clear. The former im not so sure of doesnt mean im unsure. Or dont know. At this point its inarguable he was bribing ukraine. What i would really wish for in all of this is that we could get beyond the facts because they are what they are. He did it. He did it. The better debate the healthier debate is interesting or strange as they may seem is this impeachable . Thats a healthy debate for america. I couldnt agree more. I think that whats obvious has been that way for a long time. What is not obvious is what the consequence should be. Congressman, it is good for to hear you stha to the audience. I appreciate you on the show. Especially a sunday night. I look forward to having you on cuomo prime time soon. This is the bigger week. This is not hype. You watched my show. Im not in the hype game. You a case this way, start on the and move towards the inside. Youll never get on the inside here. Youre not getting the president. I dont think youre getting pompeo. Or bolton or mulvaney. Youll get close and as close as youll get will be this week. Now the map to watch, ambassador sondland. He has to address the new information that came to light about his call with the president after the one with zelensky. Ill review what the call was about. 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It has never been that way in any impeachment of a president. It aint going to be this way this time. The reasonable are left to sort out what left and right are fighting about. Hopefully this show will help you do that. And the great minds i introduce you to now. Welcome to all of you. Thank you very much. Thanks for having us. You were in the game at the highest level and recently. Do you agree or disagree with my assessment that this aint going to be about the house united in any possible way. This is full on left vs. Right. And the ideas of cross over at this point are remote at best. I think slim to none. I think the impeachment is inevitable and i would be surprised if you get any republicans to vote for the impeachment. Articles. What about congressman turner . Republican who said a lot of the stuff hes hearing is bothersome and not supposed to come this way. Is that just talk and talk is different than vote. This is bothersome and troublesome i dont like it its wrong. I dont know if it rises to the level of impeachment. Thats where theyll take it. The problem is i thought they had a poor week of trying to convince americans this doesnt rise to the level of impeachment. It seemed very disjointed. If youre going to get the public on your side, didnt seem to me they had a great week in doing that. Of course the biggest detractor from any messages was the president himself. When he is tweeting about a witness who is currently giving testimony. Which was just dumbfounding to me. The idea that we were heading into this people were telling us you may see a different president in the process. He understands this and feels god about his position. He maybe quiet. That was never going to happen. In terms of not the legality. This is political. Attempted bribe and that just because it didnt come to fruition doesnt mean it wasnt an abuse of power. How important was week one . It was incredibly important. We see the democrats laying out a rather method cal case with witness by witness drawing out the story. The story theyre telling from the edges and moving in is the story of the president of the United States pressuring a foreign leader for his own personal political purpose. And he was doing that in a way that wasnt just not in the National Interest but actually contrary not National Interest. We heard all three of the foreign Diplomats Foreign Service Officers testify over last week about how deeply harmful and corrosive this was to the u. S. Ukrainian relationship. To u. S. Strategic interest in the region. And the interest was harmed by the attempt here. And the fact the president was essentially caught and foiled at the last moment. Didnt prevent that harm from coming. Already the allies have reasons to distrust us and adversaries have reason to distrust the commitments to those alloys and this is a astonishing abuse of office that has resulted in concrete harm to the nation. The fact that this wasnt delivered the zelensky didnt actually go on tv and announce the investigations of the bidens as trump wanted, one doesnt under cut thats what he tried to do. And didnt actually prevent serious harm from occurring. The bounce on that is shes in part right. The word maybe. Shes 100 right. When she talks about concrete the only part right is the sand in that mix. This is soft. It never happened. They didnt get the aide. He didnt get any dirt. And what this comes down to is you dont like how the president makes his decisions on foreign policy. Going after bind was legit because what he did was wrong. He had a rightful interest in asking about it and you dont like how he did it. You dont kick out a president for it. That is an argument. Its their argument. Thats what youll hear. Thats part of the argument. And a lot of it is not holding water. This strikes me as water gate in reverse. During water gate we had a year and a half of congressional and fbi investigations. Leading to the smoking gun tape. Where everybody saw nixon was interfering in the fbi trying to block the investigation into the water gate burglary. This is in reverse because we started with the smoking gun. The transcript itself. Showed the president s own words he was asking zelensky to do him a favor of investigating his political rival joe biden. There it was in many ways thats the most serious evidence we have gotten yet of an abuse of power. The question is, as you have been discussing does it add up to grounds for removal of office. And on that ground i think its a political judgment. The republicans have made a few modest points that help them there. One from ambassador taylor testimony. That its all the indications are that the ukrainians didnt know at the time of the phone call that the military aide was being suspended. And taylor testified he didnt know himself until august 29. When the political article comes out and he hears from the ukraine officials. If this is about an attempted bribe, the bribe bee at the time of the favor request doesnt know its not required. You can ask me to do something. I may not understand it thats whats happening. We have seen mob movies. Where the guy even if classic line well make you an offer you cant refuse. He had no idea what the offer was it came later. The solicitation has to come. You want the common sense of certain legalities and principles in order to carry forward. Help me with this. Mike has been a great mentor to me. I dont like jumping to russia and filling this void of not understanding why the president is differential to putin. Here we are again. With Rudy Giuliani messing with these two guys who you have known a long time. For giuliani to be messing with guys like this is completely bizarre to me. They have a connection to a ukrainian with deep roots into russian pockets. Hes wanted for a criminal solicitation investigation. This guy. And there you have russia again. Who is pushing the theory that ukraine was involved in 2016 with crowd strike . Russian intelligence was pushing it. Why are we back here again with this . You cant swing a stuffed animal and not hit 12 russian Intelligence Officers operating anywhere in ukraine. What is surprising to me is someone like Rudy Giuliani who should know better has been doing business dealings with there since 2008. And during that whole time, clearly there were real issues there. As a matter of fact a quick story i was there as chairman of the Intelligence Committee to try to work out a way that we could communicate and intelligence to the ukrainian intelligence services. Because their services were so penetrated by russian intelligence agents we couldnt use formal channels to do it. Thats about as bad as it gets. All of those business relationships there the level of corruption there is breathtaking. So any activity there on behalf of an american and Paul Manafort found that out, you are going to bump into people who will either agents or Intelligence Officers for the russian intelligence service. Because they are so aggressive in that particular part of the world. I can explain it. Im not sure i will. I will say as an fbi guy that worked bribery and corruption and mob cases in chicago intent on bribery is not as easy to get to. This isnt a rules of evidence kind of proceeding. But that intent is hard. One of the things i thought happened this week that showed that the intent might not be there is you had all the meetings that taylor was in and it never came up and he didnt know about the fact of the money. If you are trying to defend this, that would be a logical way to come at it. In the committee hearing. They need the trial to be today. Because as soon as you get these witnesses next week, youre going to get a different reckoning. You point something out. Its important for the people at home, did the president have corrupt intent . Did he think he was doing something wrong. That could be very important in terms of shows abuse of office. It would be good to know youre trying to abuse it. Thank you for laying out the legality. Isikoff, thank you for helping me understand. Big brother as always. You helped us understand the workings of the process from someone whos been in it it. The host of declassified he has in the contract im supposed to call him big brother rogers. I dont know how i feel about it. You can tweet him. 11 00 p. M. Eastern tonight. Cnn only. Declassified worth the watch. All right. Impeachment hearings, we have seen them. This isnt the first time they have been on tv. The time they were most impressive was without question nixon and water gate. It was so different. We have never seen a president defend himself the way this president does because theres never been twitter and this than he understands even tonight. 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We have a central figure from water gate history joining us now. Former Nixon White House counsel john dean. Always good to see you, sir. So, just one question. When you look at that experience and compare it to this point in this process, what do you see . I see a it is still early in the process. Nixon actually we tend to look at it back through history at what all was accumulated much of it after he left of the office. And we think there was a mountain of evidence. There wasnt that much evidence when they voted on july 27 to impeach him. In the House Judiciary Committee. The house never voted on his impeachment. And of course it never went to the senate he resigned within days because the Supreme Court handed down a decision while the court was the committee was voting. That forced him to return turn over 20 key tapes and some 40 other less important tapes. So, that was the end of the story when the tapes were turned over. And he left right before the house could take action. But today were not that far along in the proceeding. Do you think theres any chance from what you have gotten a sense of to this point that the facts in this situation with President Trump could as damming as those were in nixon . I think theyre more damming. More damming. For this reason, lets back up through nixon articles. Article 3 was his obstruction of congress. Related to four subpoenas that he refused to honor. So far, the Trump Administration and the president at the direction of the white House Counsel has refused to honor ten subpoenas. So thats a good bit more. Lets go into the second article in nixon. The abuse of power. Thats still ongoing. Were peeling that back currently. And i think its right in there right now even before more testimony is given with what nixon was doing. Obstructing fbi, misusing the irs and places like that. The big difference being he was abusing his foreign powers authority. Which is much different than his president misusing civil powers of domestically or political in the United States. And the article 1 of nixon was obstruction of justice and i want to tell you the Mueller Report is much more powerful than the evidence collected by the House Judiciary Committee on obstruction of justice. Interesting how quiet the democrats have been with that. Do you believe looking at the roster of whos coming up this week, do you believe this is is it . After this week the American People will have the best look available at what mattered here and then comes the discussion of consequence. I think if ambassador sondland was forthcoming and told what really went on, it would be the end of the trump presidency. I dont think hell do that. And i think hes going to be in trouble because hes not going to. The rest of the witnesses are important, yes. But sondland is the key. As he was the intermdiary between the president and the ukrainians. I agree he is the man to watch. Obviously you have heard your own personal experience with the process. He has to make a decision. To give testimony that will protect him or protect the president. I dont know how he does both. He will be coming after Jennifer Williams the Vice President s aide. Lieutenant vindman. Mr. Volker and mr. Morrison. So he will hear them all in public which i think puts the box hes in even smaller. John dean, thank you so much for your perspective especially on a sunday night. God bless and be well. All right. So these public impeachment hearings have been playing out. Theres another person while they have been going on in trump orbit who went down in a court of law. And you have to look at it if the charges stand against roger stone. We have never seen this many people around a president go down and thats just legally. Remember all the people who left for allegations of corruption within his cabinet. What happened to drain the swamp . 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But when you look at what weve seen collectively in the cabinet, people close to this president , people that work with and for this president , jail, corruption, criticism, have we ever seen anything like it in any other president ial administration ever . I cant i cannot think of any presidency in American History that has this much criminality surrounding the president where the president at minimum has simply attracted people who are willing to break the law. Now, you can ask even deeper question is why were so many of them willing to break the law . Were they covering up deeper issues, even issues implicating donald trump . But the innocent is he just happens to collect a lot of people around him who are happy to commit crimes. Thats the best spin you can put on this from the mueller investigation. And what is that in terms of being a lens for you into what were dealing with now . Now know, i thought it was interesting that the stone verdict which found another criminal violation in trumps inner circle came in the same day as marie yovanovitchs testimony. I thought the real point of her testimony on friday was that the Trump Administration has been trying to recorrupt ukraine. Trump has used corruption as his excuse for his agenda. Hes supposedly fighting corruption in ukraine. What she really testified in great detail is that the Previous Administration had worked hard and successfully to reform ukraine, to restore the rule of law, to make officials there treat people in government and powerful people the same way as everybody else. Its also a big part of the case that trump has been jonathan, its also a big part of the republicans case that theyve been better than obama. They keep using this line obama gave blankets, were giving them bombs. Theyre forced to give military aid. In terms of corruption, i think its very clear that the Previous Administration reformed ukraine, and part of trumps agenda thats what she testified so effectively was to recorrupt ukraine, to ally himself with the ukrainians and try to get them back into power. And the way they did that was to work with trump, work with his hen chman like Rudy Giuliani and ally themselves with the Republican Party and set up with the pipeline that is had been shut down under the zelenski government. In addition to having a partisan interest, its a very basic criminal interest. And part of what Rudy Giuliani and his partners have been up to in ukraine is simply trying to get a piece of the action for themselves. Their main goal is to help donald trump by getting investigations of his opponent. But their secondary goal is to lean on the ukrainians and say were trumps guys and you better give us some of your liquid natural gas importing business whether or not we give the best bid, whether or not were the most qualified. Give us the money because were trumps guys and we need a taste of the action. Thats parnas and fruman for sure. Rudy giuliani is still two big question marks. One is why was he anywhere near guys like that . And two, how will he figure in this overall investigation . Will they try to make him a scapegoat . Dangerous. Rudy giuliani knows a lot of things and hes no one to be messed with. If this was a legitimate interest, why was rudy used the way he was. Appreciate it and look forward to talking to you in the future. Thanks. Thats a great dove tail what we were talking about at the end. 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