and let me just let me put there s agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet, and that s up to them. reporter: but several of the women who have signed ndas with bloomberg s company told abc news they are interested in telling their stories but fear the prospect of retribution. we are not going to beat donald trump with a man who has who knows how many nondisclosure agreements and the drip, drip, drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated against. that s not what we do. reporter: it was clear elizabeth warren wasn t going to drop it. the senator taunting bloomberg, drawing up her own contract to release the women from these agreements. all that mayor bloomberg has to do is download it. i ll text it. sign it, and then the women or men will be free to speak and tell their own stories. reporter: with another debate set for tuesday in south
has already been disproven. we re talking about witnesses in the white house, including michael duffey. and we just learned over the last few days that michael duffey, within 90 minutes of president trump s phone call with president zelensky, sent that email to the pentagon withholding the critical u.s. military assistance to ukraine. and at the same time, asking them to keep it quiet, hush-hush. so clearly they understood that this was inappropriate, and michael duffey is exactly the kind of witness that we need to hear from in the united states senate along with the documents, along by the way with the original transcript of the phone call. mm-hmm. rather than the memo form. as opposed to the rough transcript that the white house released. in terms of those emails, because of that foia lawsuit, those were specifically referenced by senator schumer today in his letter to his fellow senate colleagues where he called for evidence to be admitted. he also then later today said that
about calling hunter biden or joe biden. if senator mcconnell wants to put that in the mix, he hasn t done that. we ve named four fact witnesses that are not, you know, some, you know, wild goose chase that has already been disproven. we re talking about witnesses in the white house, including michael duffy who we just learned over the last few days that michael duffy within 90 minutes of president trump s phone call with president zelensky sent that information with the u.s. military assistance to ukraine and at the same time asking them to keep it quiet, hush hush. clearly they understood that this was inappropriate and michael duffy s exactly the witness that we need to hear from along with the documents and the original transcript of the phone call.
i m ayman mohyeldin, we begin this morning with democrats who are using newly-released emails about the holding of military aid to ukraine in pressuring of witnesses in the trial. and 90 minutes after the president s controversial phone call with the president of the ukraine, the white house fired off an email to the pentagon to hold off on releasing the aid. the white house also wanted to keep it quiet, with budget official mike duffy writing quote, given the sensitive nature of the request i appreciate you keeping that information closely held for those who need to know to execute the direction. duffy is one of the white house officials who refused to comply with house subpoenas to testify. during the impeachment inquiry. now, democrats are hoping that the emails will help bolster their case in the standoff with mitch mcconnell. this email is explosive. a top administration official, one that we requested, as saying
if you read the opening statement from mr. taylor today, you will see that what the president wanted and what was done to try to get that for him are clear. they re also clearly wrong, as evidenced by the need for mr. taylor to take notes, the need to keep it quiet, the need to be disruptive to people stating what was obvious. so if you see it as obvious and wrong, the question is does it move supporters in congress to think this is something worthy of removal? and although that s specifically a question for the senate, it s something that should be in our conversation leadership right now. republican markwayne mullen returns to the show. congressman, thank you for coming back. absolutely, chris. thanks for having me. so mr. taylor today. right. did you find what he put in his opening statement compelling in any way? no absolutely not. what this was an opening statement with no cross-examine.