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Congressman carson is here. a democrat on the intel committee. we appreciate your time. thank you so much. thank you. let s talk about what we re learning the state department ig is requesting an urgent briefing tomorrow with senior congressional staff members concerning document requests about ukraine. what is this about? hopefully it s about the preservation of the democracy. and making sure that the founding fathers vision of the having checks and balances in three but equal branchs of government are doing their job. it s clear. when you talk about intimidation and unitary leadership, we can look at trump and his toxic leadership style. he has been able to intimidate employees, but attempting to intimidate media. and congress. chairs of committees. and obviously whistleblowers who want to speak truth to power. and to make sure that his presidency has a greater eye of scrutiny on him. ....
And make sure that they re able to tell their story and speak truth. without fear of losing their job or fear of losing their benefits or risking the livelihood of themselves or family members. representative carson, thank you so much. i appreciate your time. what an honor. thank you. president trump tweeting out an inaccurate and misleading map about the 2016 victory. and goading democrats to impeach him. we ll set the record straight next. ....
The state department inspector general requesting what s being called an urgent and highly unusual staff briefing with congress tomorrow. this as battle is raging between house democrats and secretary of state pompeo. the chairman of the house intel foreign affairs and oversight telli telling pompeo any effort to prevent officials from speaking to them is illegal and will constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry. that s in response to pompeo accusing democrats of attempting to bully and intimidate those officials. lots to discuss now. congressman carson is here. a democrat on the intel committee. we appreciate your time. thank you so much. thank you. let s talk about what we re learning the state department ig is requesting an urgent briefing tomorrow with senior congressional staff members ....
To be scrutiny. the zelensky call trump made from the private living quarters. and i think what is finally happening is, indeed, that things are catching up. so we re seeing that with barr and with pompeo, as i said, i think pence may be next. the next whibls might be aimed at mike pence. we will see. congress andre carson, nichols christophe, matt miller, thank you for starting us off tonight. when we come back, what is mitch mcconnell up to? first he agrees last week with chuck schumer s unanimous consent request to release the whistle-blower s complaint. now he decides today is a good day to promise the country an impeachment trial in the senate if donald trump is impeached just as impeachment is looking ever more likely. he didn t have to say that today. he could have been invasieinvas. ....
Been suspended. what did he say in response to that? then he spoke by phone with zelensky on september 18th. clearly there must have been some discussion of that military assistance. i would really like to know what pompeo told him. congressman carson, the question of what pompeo knew, when did he know it, who did he tell, as nick just mentioned, that seems to be coming an increasingly important question. you might get a lot of information in these depositions that you now have scheduled with members of the state department who ve been involved in this. former ambassador to ukraine, for example, and those are coming up fairly quickly. absolutely. we have a very capable staff of former prosecutors and members of the intelligence community who will be a part of that line of questioning. there are those of us who are representatives scheduled to have our own hearing on friday and more to come. during this recess, lawrence, i think it s very important to note that the american people a ....