white house is moving closer and closer towards developing a more aggressive, a more robust impeachment messaging strategy. that s not to say that every official at the white house agrees with the need for that, but what is clear is as we are learning more damning information from some of these witnesses coming before house democrats, there is this recognition at the white house that something more needs to be done in the face of this impeachment inquiry. jeremy diamond with the latest for us there. jeremy, thank you. also with us, cnn global affairs analyst and columnist for the washington post, max boot, and cnn political commentator and republican strategist doug heye. as we statalk about this, tim morrison, he was on that july 25th call as we know. the fact that he s mentioned 15 times in taylor s opening statement, just put into context for us, how important could he potentially be here? well, assuming that he backs up what ambassador bill taylor said, which i would expect
no better evidence of the danger he poses than his own conduct. brian stelter is joining me now. so, it s becoming clear just based on what we see there, this is not likely a low-level staffer, if they had conversations with president trump in this book. yeah, this person s suggesting that they are in the room where it happened, so to speak, that they are inside with meetings, with deliberations with the president. and according to this writer, he or she is going to share that information and make it very clear just how much access that might be just to protect the person s identity, we don t know. what we do know is this book is coming out in a little more than three weeks. it is already in the top ten on amazon, already a top seller,
give you information. what would you need, though, in the doj to move into the criminal phase? what do you have to show? yeah, so, this is a major escalation, as shimon said. and what you need in order to open a criminal investigation is pred occasi predica tink on, some form of criminality, a basis or fact to say we believe if we follow this investigation, we could end up finding that there was a crime. and my big question here is, well, what is the predication? what crime are they looking at and how strong is it? is that laid out somewhere? is there like a form that says here are the reasons why? and is that something people can attain? no, there is no standard form where you can say, and the predication is thus. that said, the federal prosecutor and i m sure a lot of people were in this decision, have to sit down in good faith in doing your job right and say what is our predication here? on what basis are we moving forward? or are we just making this criminal so people will ta
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to this rapidly advancing impeachment inquiry, but there is a growing recognition from all sides inside the white house that more certainly needs to be done. white house officials don t necessarily feel like they are winning the messaging battle here as democrats bring witness after witness to corroborate damning information about the president s involvement in these ukraine matters. what we are learning, though, is that there is an effort by some white house officials to hire somebody to essentially run the messaging operation as it relates to impeachment. so, essentially, take off some of the load from the white house press shop. jared kushner, the president s son-in-law and senior adviser, i am told according to three sources, is one of those officials who is pushing for this external hire. and right now, the leading candidate to take over that position is tony sayeg, who is the treasury department s former spokesman, at one point rumored to be in the running for white house communi