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mexicans would pay for it, to use the money to take land away from farmers and ranchers on the border of the united states. how can any conservative support this guy? senator, the definition of conservative has changed so fast in our lifetime it s unbelievable. we need a dictionary to keep up with it. senator michael bennet, democrat from colorado. thank you, sir. stay safe on the trail. that s all we have for tonight. we ll be back tomorrow with more meet the press daily. ari melber is picking it up. good evening to you. we begin here with breaking news rocking washington. moment of truth. house speaker nancy pelosi says that is what faces the nation tonight. right now as she stepped out and made this announcement just within the last hour. i m announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. i m directing our six committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry. the president ....
democrats battle to take back the white house? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we are following major breaking news. house democrats drop the hammer, launching a formal impeachment inquiry as the outrage over the president s ukraine phone call reaches critical mass. nancy pelosi making the announcement awhile ago, accusing president trump of betraying the nation by asking ukraine to help them hurt his potential 2020 opponent, joe biden. tonight, the president is firing back in familiar fashion, calling the impeachment probe a witch hunt. he failed trying to calm the controversy by releasing transcripts of a phone call tomorrow. all this as the person behind the whistleblower complaint that set the scandal in motion wants to speak directly with congress. the house intelligence committee chairman says that could happen as soon as this week. our correspondents, analysts, guests are sta ....
mean, that s the appropriate way to raise an issue with the ukrainian president, correct? it s appropriate for the justice department and the prosecutor general to cooperate and to exchange information, yes. to the extent the president has concerns and to the extent the attorney general is having u.s. attorney durham look into it, isn t it entirely appropriate for the president to flag this for president zelensky and say youn touch with our official channels? mr. castor, i don t know the precise appropriateness of these kinds of relations. now, were either of you involved with the preparation for the 7/25 call? i was not. i was not. how do you account for that? i mean, you were two of the key officials with responsibility for ukrainian policy. if the president of the united states is going to have a call with the leader of ukraine, why wouldn t you ordinarily be involved with the preparation? sir, we work for the department of state in an embassy overseas. prep ....
president, correct? it s appropriate for the justice department and the prosecutor general to cooperate and to exchange information, yes. but to the extent that the president has concerns and to the extent that the attorney general is having u.s. attorney durham look into it, isn t it entirely appropriate for the president to flag this for president zelensky and say that you should be in touch with our official channels? mr. castor, i don t know the precise appropriateness of these kind of relations. now, were you involved, either of you involved with the preparation for the 7/25 call? i was not. i was not. and how do you account for that? i mean, you were the two of the key officials with responsibility for ukrainian policy. if the president of the united states is going to have a call with the leader of the ukraine, why wouldn t you ordinarily be involved with preparation? sir, we work for the department of state in an embassy overseas and in preparation for ....
26. what did that come to mean? my understanding, ambassador sondland s use of that term was the three people in charge of ukraine policy during the summer where he, gordon sondland, ambassador volker and secretary perry. what did you come to, when did you come to learn about mr. giuliani s role and what do you consider his role to have been? i first heard about former mayor giuliani s interest in ukraine in january of this year, that was a different phase than what happened during the summertime. was it normal to have a person who is a privat citizen take an active role in foreign diplomacy? i did not find his particular engagement normal, no. now, ambassador taylor, you testified that there are two channels, a regular and irregular. what did you see as rudy giuliani s role in ukraine policy? congresswoman, i came to see that mr. giuliani had a large influence on the irregular channel. and was that normal? is that normal to have a private citizen of the unit ....