reporting from the press, that the prime minister of australia was also engaged in the president s efforts to use his position of public trust to dig up dirt on his political enemies. i think the american people now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the president has committed crimes, that he must be held accountable, and that if our democracy is to make it, there must be justice at the end of the day. there is a tentative agreement for the whistle-blower to testify, but the president is threatening the whistle-blower and today said that he is trying to find out who that person is. what do you think of his tactics of this impeachment inquiry? donald trump is a thug. he s acting like a mob boss right now. he s had a history of witness tampering and intimidation. he s trying to do the same thing right now with the whistle-blower, demanding that his identity be revealed so that he can intimidate him and, frankly, so that he can intimidate other potential
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beto o rourke has been calling for donald trump s impeachment long before the whistle-blower complaint came out. but this week, he became the first candidate to call on trump to resign from office. joining me now is 2020 presidential candidate and congressman beto o rourke. thank you very much for being here. good morning. good morning, good morning. so you have called on donald trump to resign. is this specifically in your view over the national security threat presented by what the whistle-blower revealed vis-a-vis his call to the president of ukraine? this is about the national interest, about making sure that a country that has never been more divided is able to come back together again and to heal. it s about knowing the facts now beyond a shadow of a doubt. we have the reconstructed transcript or call notes from the call between president trump and president zelensky of ukraine, from july. we have the whistle-blower s accounts. we have the understanding that there are many
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well, it is, because the house democrats have essentially said now, yes, it is. what you re hearing from them, they re going off talking points from the president this morning, saying there was no quid pro quo. andrea, we have got to make a fine point around this. we hear that from lindsey graham as well, no quid pro quo. what we know already, beyond a shadow of a doubt, without any insinuation, is that the president of the united states asked a foreign leader to work with his personal attorney and the attorney general of the justice department that the president is responsible for administering, to investigate his political opponent. andrea, that is abuse of power as the framers envisioned when they wrote the impeachment clause. there is no quid pro quo required. you heard chairman schiff refer to that. we may see evidence of quid pro quo. it certainly looks like it. we know that donald trump was