And i thought the threat to our nation was well articulated earlier today by Professor Feldman when you said, if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy, we live in a monarchy or we live under a districtatorship. My view is if people cannot depend on the fairness of our elections, then what people are calling divisive today will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed that the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponents and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposedly because he was worried about corruption. However, contrary to president s statements, various witnesses, including Vice President pences special adviser jennifer williams, testified that the president s request was political. Take a listen. I found the july 25th phone call unusual because in contrast to other president ial ca
colleague did not say this, the department of defense actually wrote a letter determining that ukraine passed the assessment and yet president trump set aside that assessment and withheld the congressionally approved aid to ukraine anyway in direction contradiction to the established procedures he should have followed had he cared about corruption. is that assess is that relevant to your assessment. yes. that would go to the factors the supreme courts discussed. and what about the fact and i think you mentioned this earlier as one of the key things that you read in the testimony, that president trump wanted the investigations of burisma and the bidens announced but that he actually didn t care whether they were conducted. that is in ambassador sondland s testimony, what would you say about that. that goes to whether the claim that this is about politics is a persuasive claim because that goes to the fact
only lived in the small part of it and the rest was being kept for this i guess, pizza parties that never happened. what do you think of all this? it s really hard to keep you have bishop eddie long, he should have given the mansion back. it was extremely problematic and there s a difference of a catholic archbishop and a pastor. it s a good idea to get rid of it. this is not the attention they need down here or any other part of the country. and saying that he ll take the proceeds and donate it to the catholic church and priorities and different programs. robert, you have pope fran cis saying they want a church for the poor. he lives in a guest room instead of the vat ran palace. how does the situation in atlanta mesh with the message that the pope is trying to push? obviously in direction contradiction. he is someone that lives by simple means.
that after the plane left the eastern coast of malaysia, it turned around and headed in the opposite direction. that raises an entire raft of questions, not least, how could it fly back over the entire malaysian peninsula and air traffic control not notice? how could the pilots not get information? how could the plane not be telegraphing information every ten minutes about the change of course? this would have been a plane flying a flight path in direction contradiction to its filed path? that s another conundrum. they are unknowns. we are in the realm of donald rumsfeld, known, known, unknown, known. i m afraid that s where we are. with these knowns and unknown and so many of them being unknowns, we also know these kind of jet liners are so technologically equipped. this had one of those emergenlo
nails. more than 14,000 people have now died since the uprising in syria began and many, many of them have been children. many have been women. the next video that we have for you is chilling. we think it s important that you see it. it underscores what s going on there. brace yourself in you have kids in the room. give them a moment to get out a look what has transfired over the last couple of days. what you re seeing is the live video of complete chaos. a car bomb going off at a funeral procession near the capital. what you re looking at resulted in 85 people at the funeral dying. absolutely remarkable. there was video that came in to cnn that really stopped us all in our tracks. we want to warn you about this. it s so graphic. it details a little girl. i want you to watch. have a look. reporter: the pictures are painful to watch. surrounded by corpses, one distraught man holds up the limp bloody body of a dead young girl. this is a new massacre by assad, he shouts. this