facts that could, at a minimum, embarrass the president. the white house counsel s review of documents was triggered by the ongoing house impeachment inquiry. earlier today house intel chairman adam schiff talked about the importance of linking the president s decision to freeze ukraine aid to his efforts to dig up dirt by the bidens. yes, the president s chief of staff, the person who meets with the president every day on live camera admitted exactly that, veis-a-vis the most serious and that is the mill aritary aid. what ambassador sondland did say was everyone was in on the loop of the precondition of the meeting that ukraine desperately sought for its recognition that the united states had its back, that everyone was in the loop on this. it was a clear quid pro quo, and with respect to the military aid, in the absence of any other explanation and in light of the president s own record of pressing for these investigations, two plus two
house speaker nancy pelosi is calling allegations against president trump, quote, bribery. we talked about that just a moment ago with congresswoman speier. specifically, she said of wednesday s hearing, quote, the devastating testimony corroborated evidence of bribery uncovered in the inquiry. now, as we mentioned up top, bribery is not only a specific crime that is maybe easier for voters to understand, it s also specifically mentioned in the constitution as an impeachable offense. joined now but our legal and political folks, john dean, jeffrey toobin, gloria borger, a and jen psaki. i think they are getting away from quid pro quo because most americans, except david gergen speak english rather than latin. and bribery is also a it is clear what it is and there is evidence to support it. personally, i think extortion may be a more accurate
different eyes, do you think any move has been made toward that thus far with the testimony? you know, how do you know? every day there is another disclosure, there is another bombshell. the conversation at a restaurant now is new information that we didn t know about a day ago. so i think what we have to do is just do our job. and this inquiry will move forward. we will present our evidene to the judiciary committee. they will assess whether or not they re going to create articles of impeachment, and then the house will take it up. congresswoman speier, we appreciate your time. thank you very much. busy day. with the testimony tomorrow, the new allegation of bribery will discuss the allegations the white house is facing with our legal and political folks, as well as a veteran in the watergate scandal. also, the deadly school shooting today just north of los angeles and the latest what went on. rm beeping) welcome to our busy world. where we all want more energy. but with less ca
during a cell phone conversation is set to appear before the house impeachment inquiry but that s going to be behind closed doors tomorrow. that s in addition to a second day of public testimony, this time with the ousted ambassador to ukraine. back with our team. kirsten, there is something you wanted to mention? right before we went to break you were saying there are a lot of republicans who are uncomfortable with what he did, but they don t want to impeach the president. sure. but isn t shouldn t they be looking at what the facts are and then deciding whether or not they want to impeach him? you re basically just saying because they like the president, they re not even considering the fact that he may have violated the constitution. well, i m saying a lot of republicans i have spoken to have exhibited varying degrees of discomfort. some very little and some say bad judgment, some say man, that was terrible. but to rise to the most grave action you can take in our system ag
withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of fake investigation into the elections. speaker pelosi also took a moment to remind the president that he is free to provide witnesses to refute the case being made against him. it s called an inquiry, and if the president has something that is exculpatory, mr. president, that means you have anything that shows your innocence, then he should make that known, and that s part of the inquiry. and so far we haven t seen that, but we welcome it. and that s what an inquiry is about. late this evening, as we said at the top, we learned that an official in the president s office of management and budget will testify if subpoenaed. his appearance is now scheduled for saturday. also tonight, the question of what to make of video of attorney general william barr and others in what s been described as an animated