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a justice department spokeswoman tel tells cnn the president didn t ask barr to contact the ukrai ukrainians on that or any other matter and that barr never communicated on his own. with the house democrats inquiry picking up speed, president trump is resorting to his well worn playbook. painting the controversy as a smear against him, but will his tactics work this time around? we ll take a look.
come to the floor. i think this process is going to allow the american people to make the decisions on their own as to whether they believe that this is appropriate behavior for a president and frankly, i think most people going to the same conclusion which is that this president is abusing power. are you ready at this point to vote for impeachment? i m going weigh every, when the time comes, i m going to weigh every article individually. one, as oversight, i don t want to come to any kind of c conclusions before the actual articles are set forth b and we know the areas of focus and we know that the actions that fall within those, but i think evidence for certain articles of impeachment that could come forward quickly. i preeappreciate you joining. thank you so much. thank you, appreciate it. with the ukraine continue ro
about his call with ukraine. earlier, i spoke to samantha power, the former u.n. ambassador under president obama about the saga and that white house lawyers tried to lock down the transcript of the president s phone call. the transcript like this which could reasonably be classified because it s an exchange between a president and foreign leader but putting it in a special compartmented code word system which is something that the lawyers appear to have insisted upon speaks to the fact that outside this little circle, bullying and extortion, somebody who s further away says woops, this is not korb e sher. if the distribution continues beyond the small circle of people that surround president trump, this is going to be
whistleblower specifically. adam schiff confirming there s a tentative agreement for this person to testify as early as this week. now professor of constitutional law at the university of north carolina joins us now. rewrote a book called the federal impeachment process and also with us, jennifer rogers. jennifer, let s talk about this testimony if it in fact happens. the acting dni did say the whistleblower would be allowed to speak freely. do you think they ll be allowed to speak before congress without any constraints from the white house or doj. we ve had these promises before. when they show up, things differ, but the whistleblower didn t have any conversations with the president so there s no executive privilege and there s no attorney client privilege so the level of interference they can offer is really limited here because this person wasn t in a