moving beyond that she it's not her problem anymore she goes the european central bank that goes to chris george a very crystal leaner the new had there who we heard from and in the end for me looking at this from the perspective of having watched from the is in the late ninety's and early 2003 just seems to be a remarkable lack of. confidence a lack of confidence on their part not just the sidelining of the u.s. not just all these differences on interest rates but real fracturing over what used to be a consensus at the international financial institutions and this has really shaken the investor confidence like world wide because now you have them debating should we sink more good money to follow bad money like is it even worth it at this point where history has shown that they have defaulted at every single step of the way and what could they possibly do this time that could change the course of history very interesting time in transition. time now for a quick break but hang here because just after the break. the other good for all the things that need to be done to fix this problem major drug

the special agent in charge of the criminal agent to his left, george chris hobbie, the special agent in charge of investigation at the fbi. and now i would like to invite to the podium my very good friend bill sweeney for any comments you would like to say. >> think you. last night at the washington dallas international airport we arrested fruman and parnas on criminal charges as they tried to leave the united states. david, the fourth individual charged in today's indictment is not yet in our custody. campaign finance laws exist for a reason. to the american people expect and deserve an election process that has not been corrupted by the influence of foreign interests, and the public has the right to know the true source of the contributions. laws make up the fabric of who we are in the nation. these allegations are not about a technicality, a civil violation, or an error on a form. this investigation is about corrupt behavior. deliberate lawbreaking. the fbi takes the investigation of corruption seriously, there are no exceptions to this rule. we gather evidence. we collect facts.

george w. bush administrations. chris, let's start with the judicial watch documents. this is stunning stuff.rtant, do you believe? >> it pertained to points being generated for the foreign minister lavrov. the up reply case being john kerry was preparing to speak with john kerry and this was classified and forward on unclassified systems. if you are a democrat or one of these deep state critters it's okay to do that. but it also raises serious questions, it raises more questions than it answers. it looks like state department officials may have played a role in that. lou: jonathon wiener appears to have played the role as conduit to the diplomats. that's important as we look at the real collusion taking place with whom. >> why were they connecting with the senior officials at the russian embassy? his job was supposed to be libya. the left assumed russia tried to help donald trump win even thoifort was feckless and played no real role. but who knows. maybe there were elements in russia who were in on the conspiracy to stage a coup against the president of the united states. lou: the collusion

chris. >> all right. thank you so much for that. >>> i want to turn the discussion to my panel. joining me now, andy, former white house chief of staff for george w. bush, as well as an msnbc political analyst. joe winebanks. msnbc contributor. and chris whiple, author of the gate keepers. how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency. so, look, clearly between mulvaney and this week's testimony, democrats feel their case is stronger now. i want to play for you one member of congress who was in the room all four days for all the testimony talking to me earlier today about what he learned behind closed doors. >> the metaphor that i like to offer is that it's as though we're using an old 35 millimeter camera and we're rotating the lens in order for the picture to come into clearer focus, higher resolution. we're already above basic capable focus on what went on here. the depth and breadth of it. we're on our way to high definition. but from each and -- >> is high definition -- just so i understand the analogy, is high definition drafting articles of impeachment? >> well, i think there's some people that would be willing to do that,

chris wallace. he said, oh, by the way, what about the reporting that george kent testified that, you know, that he went to the obama administration in 2015, to say that he thought that it didn't look good that hunter biden was on this ukrainian board and m l mulvaney didn't know anything about it, hasn't read the reporting, et cetera. i wonder if that adds to the frustration? >> certainly, inside the white house, it did. i spoke with a couple of folks who said that they couldn't believe that mulvaney was not read in on that, which is something that could have been a pretty solid talking point for the white house to once again pivot this issue to the bidens, which is something the president has done so many times. as for the president, he'll be having this cabinet meeting later today. and we know that that is often a location where he likes to kind of pump up his own ego by going around the room and having these other cabinet officials sing his praises, especially important at a time where he's facing so much criticism, including from within the republican party on so many other fronts. poppy? >> a

kennedy: on their day 1931, george washington bridge opened, first car to make it across any minute now. step on the gas. chris storm. topic 1. >> let's start in michigan. pumpkin prices fall fast. oh, what is that? davis son fire deputy held annual pum pumpkin drop, it wasa smash hit, it pays raises and money for their most cause, beer money. >> and local love it because, it is nice to see something falling in michigan besides wolverines. jim harbaugh would be better off letting hugh jackman play quarterback. deflate the football, tom brady. >> this year a 100 foot pumpkin fall, highnis highest in historu think that is a big drop, have you not been following beto's prison numbers, i don't know. we head to california. police busted a criminal who shows up once a year. mm-hmm. dad? night before christmas all through the big house. santa was sleeping, because he got really soused. yeah this fellow put the conin santa con, he robbed a shed in town of brea, he was hung over at the time of photo, did you bt doctors say he within into a by bettidiabetic coma after all cos and milk the night before. the good news is

chris. man, i love these live shows. thanks. thanks for joining us this hour. happy to have you with us. a little bit less than a year ago, shortly after former president georgeied, his funeral in washington was the kind of occasion that we only very, very, very rarely see in u.s. politics. there are only so many u.s. presidents. there are only so many ex-presidents alive at any one

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george soros' company. the put in my lap. >> harris: "they put it in my lap." chris stirewalt, a quick reaction, and then i have a follow-up. >> the good news about this process is it'll act as a nice partisan diuretic for the nation. we will get rid of a lot of these new humors as you go through the process. everything has to come out. we will go through these hearings, go through the stuff, we will get to the end. rudy giuliani makes a lot of extravagant claims, and they change from day-to-day. does that stand up? what about the stuff that shifted? it's all going to come out. spew on my quick follow-up has to do with democrats and how they see joe biden. do support him? i know they are offering to spend their own cash to particular war test ram, fight back and allegations with him and his son, hunter. to support him or start to pull away and say, "elizabeth warren is kicking up, he has issues, he has run twice before and that didn't work out?" because there is one good way elizabeth warren can become the democratic nominee. she needs him to stick around. >> harris:

chris christie and rahm emanuel. we'll break down the politics, smoke out the spin. the facts that matter this week. >> announcer: from abc news, it's "this week." here now, chief anchor, george stephanopoulos. >>> good morning and welcome to "this week." we come onto the air after a rare last night retreat from trump, bowing to fierce criticism and the prospect of a new front in the fight over impeachment. trump fired off a tweet shortly before 10:00 p.m. announcing that next year's g7 summit would not be held at his miami hotel after all. the original announcement made thursday at that stunning press conference where acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, admitted what the president had been denying for weeks, that military aid in ukraine was conditioned on that country pursuing a political investigation for president trump. >> but to be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo. it is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happens as well. >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. and i have news for everybody. get over it. >> all this as turkey continues to pound the kurdish people who fought side by side with america against

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chris hahn. you get very upset on fridays. i think you get tired at the end of the week. >> i'm happy. the yankees won. >> laura: he's very upset. we have to get to georgeapadopoulos.ke we'll talk to him in a second. i would say the career civil servant are they are to carry out the agenda of the duly elected president of the united states and abide by the law. absolutely. elections have consequences. you are not there as part of a permanent opposition group. that is not how our country works.s. if the democrats want to go down this road is going to be a very ugly road and other administrations and i don't think they want that. i don't think they want that. have to go. i have to go. i love how it goes down, the volume goes down. all this brings us back to where we began. the probe, russia collusion. over the course of this investigation john durham the u.s. attorney has reportedly obtained -- we learn this today. two blackberry phones that were used by joseph meston.erse the mysterious multis professor who sparked the entire russia probe. on hearing the news, my next guest remarked, i've lived in this story. he wants to know what's on those blackberries

chris. man, i love these live shows. thanks. thanks for joining us this hour. happy to have you with us. a little bit less than a year ago, shortly after former president george h.w. bush died, his funeral in washington was the kind of occasion that we only very, very, very rarely see in u.s. politics. there are only so many u.s. presidents. there are only so many ex-presidents alive at any one time, and any one of them passing is always going to be a very, very big deal, let alone one as revered as former president george h.w. bush. one of the things that was remarkable about his funeral last year were the pictures from the funeral. do you remember this shot? rosalyn carter next to jimmy carter next to michelle obama and barack obama, next to melania trump, next to donald trump, all there together, the vice presidents and their families sitting behind them. you just don't see that in real life. that's like flipping through a history book, right? except there they all are on the same page in the same place, at the same time all together. you never see that. president bush's funeral is he national cathedral was a huge affair. it wasn't just presidents and vice

george kent about the fact that rudy giuliani lobbied the state department to grant a visa to the very same corrupt ukrainian prosecutor that biden pushed to oust, is that right? >> that's right, chrisve been some rumors going around washington for several days about this. and aerocolleagues at cnn have locked down this story tonight. and what they're reporting is that back in january rudy giuliani pushed the state department to give a visa to this former prosecutor who could come to the united states to give to rudy giuliani what giuliani thought would be dirt basically about joe biden and about the president's political opponents. now, this is the prosecutor that joe biden back when he was the sitting vp had try today get the ukrainians to get rid of because he didn't think he was pursuing corruption enough. and rudy giuliani wanted to speak with him, tried to get the state department to give him a visa. and then when the state department declined according to cnn's reporting, giuliani went to the white house, tried to get the white house to overrule the state department. now, they didn't give him a visa, but why is this important? because this is fresh example completely separate