so can we please call -- madam clerk, can we please call the consent agenda? >> clerk: items 1 through 6 are on consent and considered to be routine. if requested, an item can be removed and heard separately. >> president yee: colleagues, would anyone like to remove any items from the consent agenda? seeing none, on items 1 through 6, madam clerk, please call the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: okay. then without objections, these filings pass unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, let's go to our regular agenda and all items 7 -- call items 7 through 9 all together. >> clerk: items 7 is the ordinance to amend the planning code and the zoning map to create the 3333 california special use district. item 8 is an ordinance to approve an agreement between the city and laurel heights partners to develop a site located at california street and presidio avenue with various public benefits. and item 9 is the ordinance to create an encroachment for laurel partners to occupy adjacent sections of 3333 california street to ma

host: thanks for the call. jim calling from texas, republicans' line. caller: i'm 82, almost 83 years old now. i have watched all of the coverage.levision i have a few points that i think that is very important here. guilty until proven innocent or is it innocent until proven guilty? .econdly, hear say evidence i have listened to so much of the hear say evidence and evidence that was later on disproven that causes me to our about our history of country. and i'm afraid what i see right now is a lynch mob is going to linch a person that has not been proven to be guilty or innocent. host: if anybody wants to go back, watch some of our coverage of the hearing from today and from the intelligence committee. we have everything on our website, c-span.org/impeachment. getting a few more calls this evening. samantha on the line for independents and others. caller: i just wanted to say i appreciate everybody trying to figure this out but we need to see the other side of what's going on. certain people speaking and not re

the phone call that was perfect. the perfect phone call. i made a perfect call. not a good call.erfect call. in fact a friend of mine who was a great lawyer said, did you know this would be the subject of all of this scrutiny because the way you expressed yourself, this was like a perfect call. it was a perfect call. in fact it was two perfect calls. a perfect phone call. an absolutely perfect call. >> the thing is, however, we keep learning new details surrounding that july 25th phone call that the president has repeatedly called perfect with ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky. "the washington post" reports 29 times in the past three months, president trump has used twitter to implore the country to read the rough transcript of his july 25th call. the president has also instructed his gop allies to use a similar defense, writing on twitter back in november, the call to the ukrainian president was perfect. read the transcript. there was nothing said that was in any way wrong. republicans, don't be led into the fool's trap of saying it was not perfect but is not impeachable. n

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his call notes that the call notes were not being listed by the presidents. the officials became sad that the president did not revere their policymaking apparatus. >> would you be out for these goals like rooting out corruption and ukraine? >> i think the president is skeptical of the inner agency bureaucracy. >> that may be why he relied on secretary perry and ambassador volker ambassador sondland and others? >> by the way, all three of those officials are not that far outside the chain of the u.s. government. >> would be appropriate in any investigation of corruption in ukraine to exempt or removed, say, a political supporter? >> it would be. >> would it be inappropriate to remove a political opponent questioning >> that's correct me out. >> would it be inappropriate to rose >>this all goes to the heart of bias. >> thank you for those answers. mr. chairman, i go back to what you said about the facts being undisputed. i would argue the facts are in fact are disputed. what you contend are facts are in fact not appear there with this presumption's, hearsay, a

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the substance of the call and the political nature of the call. >> and they reported the call, that they actually reported that to the internal legal channels. i placed colonel vindman's testimony about why he reported the call on the screen. am i correct that the call was based on the fact that the president was asking a foreign power to investigate a u.s. citizen? >> yes, and he was not the only witness to express that concern. >> am i correct that he reported this concern because he thought it was a sense of duty? a duty he felt something was wrong? >> as you know, lieutenant vindman was a purple heart winner from iraq, and he's been in the department of defense for 20 years. he has a great sense of duty and great patriotism to this country and felt compelled to follow that since of duty and report it. >> she testified as you brought out or was brought out earlier that it was unusual and inappropriate, is that correct? >> that's right. >> when vice president biden got involved with the european union and the imf and germany and france and said, you have to do something about corr

some people might say maybe they were too many calls. there's rift raft on these calls. the president of the united states calls a leader of another country whether it's boris johnson or mr. zelensky. privacy is defined differently when you're the president. who is usually on these calls as a matter of american protocol? >> it's going to depend on what the nature of the call is. if there's a covert operation you want to alert a leader to that would be different than some diplomatic talk. every conversation should be in the national interest. if it's in the national interest, rather than the president's interest, then you would want more people on for the following reasons. one is the national security staff and the national security council serves as the connective tissue for what was agreed upon. secondly, you want to have a memorialization of what happened so you want people on the call who are not involved in theasse leaders action was. what was agreed to so there can be after actions or action plan for the agencies. that is assuming the call is in the national intere

, authenticate these calls, stop these calls. we have in this legislation additional requirements for reporting back to congress on other steps that need to be taken, wheps it comes to our health care system and our hospital -- when it comes to our health care system and hospitals. that will be something the committee needs to continue to look at. i think building a better bridge between the department of justice and federal communications commission so they can go after the bad actors and nail them is a good thing. and extending out to four years the statute of limitations is a good thing so the bad actors don't get to run the clock and get away with their crimes. this is good legislation. it will make a difference. we'll continue to fight this fight. and in closing, mr. speaker, i, too, want to thank our terrific staff. some of whom, by the way, have worked on this long enough they have gone on to other pursuits, including robin and tim who is still with us but a different role than when he started on this, christine, kate, eva

they called him a politician, an actor. they called him weak. they called him everything else in the world. he's cowering. use the adjectives. if they don't believe me here, if it looks like a dauk, acts like a duck, walks like a duck, that's what hear doing, tearing him down in the eyes of the public and keep doing it over and over again to try to get at the president. this is crazy. do you know why they do it? i'm going to repeat it one more time. there seems to be a problem of reruns around here. the reason i keep repeating this is they can't make their case. they keep putting this out there. it is amazing to me. the next untruth that we're dealing with here today, and this is very sensitive to many in the military, many who have been texting me who have been serving overseas. we agreed to put it in the record. 13 ukrainian soldiers were killed during president trump's administration, withholding aid. guess what, my colleagues, there were ukrainians killed when they received their previous aid. there were ukrainians who were killed in this be

click, call or visit a store today. >>> ambassador to the eu gordon sondland testified about a call wheresident trump apparently said he wants no quid pro quo. well, the president claims this vindicates him in the impeachment inquiry. the question is did it actually happen? i want you to take a listen to sondland's testimony and how the president ran with it. >> he said, i want nothing. i want no quid pro quo. i just want zelensky to do the right thing, to do what he ran on or words to that effect. i still cannot find a record of that call because the state department and the white house cannot locate it, but i'm pretty sure i had the call on that day. >> i say to the ambassador in response, i want nothing. i want nothing. i want no quid pro quo. tell zelensky, president zelensky, to do the right thing. >> hmm, he had to read that. interesting. president trump isn't the only one clinging to that line of testimony. here are his republican defenders. >> on september 9th and most importantly reading from your deposition, you called president trump to ask him what do you want from ukraine? he

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they called him a politician derogatorily. they called him an actor. they called him weak. they call them everything else in the world, he is cowering. use the adjectives and i will go back to their adjectives. if they don't believe me here come if it looks like a duck and act like a duck, this is what they're doing. they are tearing him down in the eyes of the public and they keep doing it over and over again to try and get other president. this is crazy. you know why they do that? i'm going to repeat it one more time because there seems to be a problem of reruns around here. the reason they keep repeating it is because they can't make their case. they keep putting this out there and again, it is amazing to me. the next untruth that we are dealing with here today, and this one is very sensitive to many in the military, many who have been texting me who deserve overseas. when they put in an article, we agree to put it in the record, 13 cleaning soldiers were killed during president trump's administration while they were holding it. guess what, there were ukrainians killed w

so then he has these calls with devin nunes and two days later on april 12th, four calls made betweenarnas. lev parnas is now indicted and one of giuliani's associates who was digging for dirt on the bidens and ukraine. so nunes was talking to both of these individuals multiple times as this theory is being publicly pushed on fox news. gloria borger, joe lockhart, press secretary for president clinton during his impeachment investigation and former prosecutor laura coates. let me start with you, how bad does it look for devin nunes who is on the intelligence committee? >> it looks pretty bad. if i was a member of the house ethics committee, first of all, i would look into this and ask questions about recusal, whatever the rules are, governing recusal in the house of representatives or disclosure, and i would be asking questions for devin nunes and i don't know if adam schiff was told about these phone calls. you know, devin nunes was a key questioner during these committee hearings. >> yeah. >> and the second thing i would worry about is the southern district of new york. the southern

you can't call it a grand jury where the prosecution calls witnesses. they have to depend on the prosecutor to live up to integrity. you can't have it and say we're a grand jury and then you can't say we're going to make it fire and give their side of the defense. they don't do that in a grand jury. here's the issue. in a court where i practiced, i never went to the prosecutor and say who can i call? the prosecutor said you can call my witnesses. at least at some point in that mix, mr. raskin, would at least -- and others on the democratic side, they would have to acknowledge that having the chairman determine relevancy of my witnesses called or the white house's is a problematic exercise because it's their determining relevancy that is discounting any possibility, any possibility of exculpatory evidence coming from one of my witnesses. they're saying they're irrelevant so we don't want to hear from them. let's make that clear. that's why this was, again -- we said it's very unfair process. >> mr. raskin, you said earlier and rightfully, you said some f

we need a roll call. >> president yee: roll call. >> clerk: okay. on items 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, and 63 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: okay. madam clerk, please call item 53. >> clerk: item 53 is a resolution to declare the week of november 17 through the 23, 2019 as united against hate week in the city and county of san francisco. >> president yee: supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: colleagues, november 17 through 23, which we are in right now is the united against hate week. it's a call for local civic action by people in every bay area county to stop the hate and implicit biases in the bay area. [inaudible] >> supervisor mandelman: the number of hate crimes committed across the united states has increased dramatically in the past several years including san francisco where hate crimes increased 61% between 2017 and 2018. with this resolution, san francisco will join berkeley and oakland in participating in united against hate week. i want to thank the organizers of the united against hate week

that's why i call him "rocket man." >> reporter: the north korea calling with insults, call presidentotard. today, he seemed to issue a threat about another weapons threat. >> i would be disappointed if something would be in the works and if it is we'll take care of it. we'll see. we're watching it very closely. >> reporter: some experts believe kim is making a last push before his self-imposed nuclear deadline for talks arise. but the latest shows the supreme leader may not have ever been serious about giving up his weapons. >> we have to remember nobody has ever enticed the north koreans into good behavior. president trump has tried that for a year and a half. clearly it hasn't worked. >> analysts say one of president trump's few good options left to take the momentum back and pressure kim jong-un to really giving something in nuclear talks is to tighten sanctions against north korea more seriously, put pressure on the chinese banks that do business with kim and pressure the russians and south koreans to cut the flow of cash to the dictator. at that point, kim might have little choi

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madame clerk, please call the next item. >> item 14 is ordinance to amend the health and administrative codes to require the department of public health to maintain and operate at full capacity, and to establish the adult residential facility working group to advise the board and mayor pertaining to resident care, training, workplace conditions and staffing at the facility. >> president yee: can we take this same house same call? without objection, this ordinance is finally passed unanimously. madame clerk, please call the next item. >> item 15 is ordinance to amend the planning code to require half of the educator housing projects residential units to have two or more bedrooms to eliminate three bedroom requirements to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. >> president yee: colleagues, same house, same call? without objection, the ordinance is finally passed unanimously. madame clerk, please call the next item. >> item 16 is ordinance to amend chapter 19b of the administrative code governing the c

it is more than a phone call.veryone comments it is just a phone call, but it is withh olding of the funds, the denigration of the ambassador that was right all he working through anticorruption measures in ukraine -- he worked to get that woman's job eliminated and tarnished during the process. and people. i do not understand how there is one single individual that of the understand -- that doesn't understand that he shouldn't be impeached -- that he should be impeached and removed from ce.i those two callers were very disappointing, very uninformed about what the power of the presidency is. remember, we as an independent country left a monarchy left so we could have -- left a monarchy so we could have a constitutional republic. so we could substitute the constitution for a king, and trump is overrunning all of that. that should horrify all american citizens. thank you. gary, calling to from sterling, virginia on the republican line. good morning. caller: thank you. good morning jesse, i don't believe i've ever t

it's called the starr report.could go through it and then they could look at all the evidence was all there. we had to hire a u-haul truck to send it up. they had the opportunity to go through it and determine if were going to release this information to the public and so forth. what happened here was the cart was way before the horse. first of all there was no special counsel or investigation. there was no staff investigation. there was no equivalent or counterpart for the senate select committee on watergate which was so effective in doing what, not in the kind of speech a finding that has gone on here for the past three months, but actually finding fax. the select committee could have been volunteer. all were very concerned about, the ukraine phone call, let's form a committee to explore this in them will determine if we can get to testimony of the people and administration, et cetera. none of that was done. let's just send it to the house intelligence committee, to adam schiff, let him use his judgment, the ma

and at least four phone calls or attempted calls fbetween parnas and nunes and including one call on november 12 that lasted more than eight minutes. let's take a look at it with our in-house investigator andrew mccabe. thank you for being with us tonight, very important. the first question, i'm going to ask it to a member of the committee later in the show, these phone logs never came up during the testimony. do you think that couldn't be an oversight. was there some kind of rule about what could be asked about and what couldn't in that testimony? >> i doubt it, chris. i don't think so. as we said many times before, this is an impeachment, it's not a criminal proceeding, not a r grand jury proceeding. if the phone records were obtained through a grand jury subpoena, there would be some restriction. none of that really applies here. i think other factors may have led the committee to stay away from the phone records in those public hearings. first and foremost many of the folks that are captured on the phone records didn't actually appear in front of the committee, which we know why

that it was what they call this report calls a dramatic crescendo of a month's long campaign drivens. officials and listed them were either knowledgeable or active participants in an effort to extract from a foreign nation the personal political benefits sought by the president. that is pretty clear. and then it goes on to make the case that it is not just about president trump, but it is about the very nature of our democracy and our checks and balances and that if donald trump could get away with this, then any future president would have no incentive to play by the rules or be ethical or another president wanted to be corrupt could get away with it. >> and the white house is going after this report releasing a statement not long after it came out, the 300 pages, and the president himself, this is clearly top of mind for him. even though he's in london and dealing with nato and at buckingham palace, he's gone after adam schiff and calling him deranged and a sick man and clearly on top of mind for him and getting under his skin. we're told he hasn't received the detailed briefing o

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deal ignores the presence of its island of crete between the coasts of turkey and libya egypt has called the deal illegal those are the headlines there's lots more in our website dot com we're back in half an hour right now it's the listening post. a chinese casino empire is transforming cambodia. rapid development and criminology one o one a few this again is a loser you can go to to see. on al-jazeera. but no. secret is go ok let's try this cut down on me and i'll write. that china's training designed to write history. hello i'm richard just put in you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week big news that beijing didn't want out there somebody inside the communist party wants the outside world to know what is happening in st john the conflict of interest the corporate kind reporters at bloomberg news cannot investigate their boss who happens to be running for the white house they're tracking journalists from inside their phones the governments are buying an insidious piece of israeli software to target activists and reporters they don't

so we didn't call it concentration camps or cells but it's we call it internment camps in radio free asia but other experts are saying because of those reasons that these are concentration moments i want to pose this to you this is someone on twitter sharman his size how is it that the chinese government is still denying that these are prisons despite the overwhelming evidence found through various investigations what do we know right now that's coming out of the chinese government and how has that changed over time. when china started this campaign it is 2000 beginning of 2017 china so. when we had this news they denied it didn't have anything like that when un in 2018 come up with this report that 1000000 over 1000000 people are being held in this camps and china immediately changed its narrative saying that yes we have some people for training job training and so far china had been pushed to answer and respond to these policies but china is denying that it's consensual it's a mass detention of. the message to muslims over there but if china did admit that it's. a concentration cam

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so i think they can both be reasonably called. will object and go to the courts, the courts will decide but if they think this is going to be the same one-way street that they've had up until now, they are sorely mistaken. this is going to be rough-and-tumble. the republicans want to go down that road, they can muddy up a lot of democrats. the conclusion is a foregone conclusion anyway, the president will be acquitted but joe biden's confidence that he is not going to go anywhere near washington is sorely misplaced. >> sean: dan bongino, the federal rules of evidence are applied which i would assume the chief justice of the supreme court would follow. that would mean that there was only one fact witness that we've heard from. everyone else is either hearsay or opinion witness. not relevant or admissible. that would be ambassador sondland. what did he say? i asked the president what do you want, nothing. and no quid pro quo, they released it and they never announced anything. there is no case. but the bidens are the guilty, it is a

asked for roll call on the motion to table the appeal of the ruling of the chair, the clerk will call the role. >> mr. nadler. mrs. lofgren. mrs. jackson lee? >>> mr. johnson? mr. deutsche? mrs. bass -- >> you are listening live to this historic day, thursday, december 12th, the house judiciary committee beginning the mark up against president donald j. trump. we have breaking coverage today, i want to bring in senateer claire mccaskill. we're going to see some of this procedural back and forth what is b happening when you see the minority republicans interject this way. >> they are just -- i don't really understand the point, they're going to try to make a point with this but i think it just falls flat, he will do motions to table and it will be a party line vote. >> so so we understand when they have this type of motion, you can get this role call vote. >> you can always get a roll call vote onge a motion to tabl for somebody who makes an actual objecti objection, or on a point of order where the chair on this one said i'm overruling your point of order, you don't get a minority hea

needed to be called by the house. the president himself wants to reserve that right to call witnesses. by the way, george, his witnesses would be a very different list than what democrats want, what chuck schumer wants, he'd want to call hunter biden, joe biden before the senate, obviously there would be a lot of opposition to that. >> unclear if all republicans would vote for that as well. mary bruce, with congresswoman with dfrom florida. >> can you help us set the stage a little bit for this day? we have seen so much testimony in your committee, judiciary committee, americans remain relatively unswayed. how will today be remembered? what is your message to americans as they watch these proceedings? >> the most important point i will be making on the house floor we took an oath of office, i took that oath twice, i became an immigrant of this country when i was 20 years old. we came here to work for the american people but the president has left us no other choice. it's a crime that he's committed and it's a crime in

can you call item 21? >> twenty-one is a resolution to authorize the mayor or her designee to cast an assessment ballot in the affirmative for the proposed formation of a property benefit district and business improvement district with respect to certain parcels of real property owned by the city that would be subject to assessment in the district. >> okay. the last item -- i think, colleagues, can we have a roll call, please. >> on item 21... [roll call] there are 11 aye. >> okay. this resolution is adopted unanimously. madame clerk, please call the next item. >> twenty-two is a ordinance to amend the green building code to establish energy performance requirements for certain new building construction and to adopt the appropriate findings. >> supervisor safai? >> yes, i know we talked about this inland use, but i wanted to ask if there was someone here from the department of environment. i want to get one question i wasn't able to ask on the record on the record. great. >> come on up. >> through the pres

on the call. the call summary shows president trump and president zelensky engaged in pleasantries and cordialities. the call summary reveals laughter. simply put, the call is not the sinister mob shakedown some democrats have described. president trump raised his concerns about european allies paying their fair share in security assistance to ukraine, a concern that president trump would continue to raise both publicly and privately. there is no discussion on the call, i repeat, no discussion on the call about the upcoming 2020 election or security assistance to ukraine. beyond the call summary, the next best piece of evidence are the statements from the two participants on the call. president zelensky has said he felt no pressure on the call. on september 25th at the united nations he said, we had a good call. it was normal. nobody pushed am he. on october 6th, president zelensky said, i was never pressured and there were no conditions being imposed. four days later on october 10th, president ze

[roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> has everyone voted that wishes to vote. the clerk will report. >> there are 24 aye's and 64 nose. >> motion to recess to the call of the chair. >> how long is a recess. >> the gentleman will suspend. >> the gentleman will suspend. the gentleman will suspend the committee will stay in recess for 15 minutes and i will announce also we have been in session two and half hours and after the conclusion of the testimony the cross-examination will be another two and half hours before the commencement of the five minutes of round of questioning. and i would ask people remain in their seats in the two witnesses are given opportunity to leave the people in the audience if inthey leave and they will stayn recess and reconvene in 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] after 45 minutes of very monotone discussion, my only question

we'll take roll call. commissioner lee is absent today. agenda item number 2, public comment on those items not appearing on the agenda. >> good afternoon. thank you, commissioners. my name is ellen. i have my name tag here. i am a public employee. i am a union delegate for government employees. i am also the director of public relations for california for the grand jury for the san francisco chapter. i have been coming to you at the commissions with other government employees, many times. in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. the last time i was here was november 15, 2019, which is last month. i came before you demanding as a commission to investigate corruption within the commission department. between april 2017 to july 2017, six public employees reported bribery, extortion and retaliation with the ethics commission department, but no record was found, and they never got back to us. i was one of the eight candidates for mayor, june 2018 election. i just finished my mayor run for the november election. i was one of the six mayor candidates for t

madame clerk, please call roll call. [roll call] mr. president, you have a quorum >> thank you. will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> okay. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at san francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. madame clerk, are there any communications? >> none to report today, mr. president. >> okay. colleagues, we are approving the minutes from the october 22nd, 2019 and october 29th, 2019 board meetings. are there any changes to these meeting minutes? seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented? >> so moved. >> to moved by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor ronen without objection, those minutes will be approved after public comment. madame clerk, will you please call the 2:00 p.m. special orders. >> the special order is the appearance by the honorable mayor london breed -- london breed. there are no questions from supervisors. the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. >> welcom

he didn't say it was because he concerned about the call. number 1 they were not on the call. he wanted to update them. he was concerned about leaks. he was concerned if this call leaked out how it would play in washington's polarized environment which is what we have here. he was also concerned that if the call leaked, it might affect bipartisan support in congress. the issues of the ukraine have traditionally been one of the few issues where republicans and democrats share interests. the third reason was he didn't want the ukrainians to get a distorted perception of what happened on the call. on the call we were talking about 8 lines of concern and a lot of ambiguty. this oval office meeting on may 23rd, there is this question, i didn't think it was ambiguous, but when the president -- the delegation to the inauguration may 20th. they come back. it's sonland and volker and perry and the president is having none of it. he said the ukrainians are corrupt and he doesn't want to invite zelensky into the white house. volker testified about this. the president doesn't order anybod

>> she called me tonight and calls me every night. i'm 83, and she worries about me. and so we were just having our conversation, and then all the sudden she just screamed and said, oh no, and then i have not been able to get her to answer the phone back. so i'm, you know, afraid something bad's happened. >> okay, ruth, who does your daughter live with? >> she's recently divorced, she's alone. >> what's your daughter's name? >> carol kennedy. >> reporter: did you notice what she said? recently divorced. certainly the operator heard it. >> do you believe that there's any reason she would be concerned if her husband, ex-husband, came back? >> oh, i don't think so. >> okay. >> no, i don't think it's that kind of a thing, no. >> okay. >> reporter: family and friends all knew that even after their divorce, steve and carol both cared deeply for each other and their two daughters. that connection between the two of them interests me. >> they took time to nurture their relationship and to spend time together. and to do things that they enjoyed doing and bringing up katie and

me, i'm going to answer this call. we should be stripped off my little robotic voice that doesn't sound anything like siri and sounds pretty bad for a call from the world's largest company probably shouldn't do going forward, hang up on it. it is going to leave a message and if they left a message like the one they just played for you, it is obviously a scam. don't interact with it. >> dana: never delete brett larson, love having you, thanks for being here. major league baseball shaking up its drug policies and what players will and won't be tested for. when i was diagnosed with dupuytren's contracture, i waited to get treated. thought surgery was my only option. but then i found out about nonsurgical treatments. it was a total game changer. learn more about the condition at factsonhand.com most people thinkal as a reliable phone company. but to businesses, we're a reliable partner. we keep companies ready for what's next. (man) we weave security into their business. (second man) virtualize their operations. (woman) an

i hate when people call it a transcript or manuscript, it's not actually the verbatim phone call. from what i learned today, if you listen to both sides of the scholars, they were setting a president for understanding the constitution of moving forward with what we can move forward to. i wish the democrats asked turley more questions and in colorado i think neguse was the only democrat that was asked any question. if you listen to what he was saying, as of right now it's not an impeachable offense and i think what he's saying is that until we get mulvaney, pompeo, giuliani and mcgahn to testify, then we won't have any of these facts because they have set a barrier amount ruled those people. unless those people are going to testify and give the truth under oath, then really there are no facts and both are right. those people are the ones holding all the answers to all the questions and leads to the doors and a locks that we know. you could compared to el chapo, everyone agrees el chapo should have been prosecuted but it's a very long time to bring about the witnesses. >> thanks dan

thank you for the call.hecking out some of the comments on our facebook page and those text messages. let me share with you some of them. this is from luanne, who says neither. this is about truth, not strength. this from jim, a tweet -- i would not hold my breath. awaiting a tie vote in the senate. and a second -- dialect disappointment in the first 10 minutes. maybe there is something to this blexit movement. the dems seething hatred has weaponize the impeachment process and is dangerous. another facebook message from rebecca -- the juxtaposition of trump holding a rally to a stadium full of people on the same day he was impeached was truly historic. nobody else could have done that. finally this from michael, saying gee, the senate might be acting a bit like the house. isny that the new york times playing its game of let's see a it. and build on make thes it president stronger or weaker? what do you say? caller: thank you for taking my call. engagement makes trump weaker because the people now can know do

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she, in a rush of guilt and shame, agreed. >> she tried to call it off and i tried to call it off.dn't stay apart from each other more than two days before we went crazy for each other. >> reporter: how would you try to call it off? what would you do? >> she would say, "i need to work it out with my husband," and i'd say, "i need to work it out with my wife. we can't talk to each other." two days later she'd text me, said, "i love you and i miss you." and i said, "i love you and miss you, too." we had a real strong spiritual bond. >> reporter: and then, all love-sick, they'd sneak off to see each other or leave longing messages on the phone like this one from rachel. >> one of the great things when you're in love with somebody is that those feelings come to the surface more. your feelings about work, about your heart, about your spirit, about everything. and we can share those with each other, okay? and i love you. take care. bye. >> reporter: during their heart-to-hearts, rachel complained that her todd was not so perfect as people seemed to think. did she lay it on a little thick

it's called giving a damn.led having standards for your conduct by not being funded by billionaires but being funded by the people, which is different. >> these back and forths happen in every primary race. this is going to get increasingly more personal as we get into the voting season next year. but to the democrats, they're concerned this could undercut their eventual nominee while they need to go up against president trump. >> everyone freaks out when there is a crowded primary because they think it's going to undercut them. i think at the end of the day, this will be a rather small limit. yes, they do care about politics but the thing they hear the most is someone who can beat president trump. so whoever emerges and appears they can take on president trump, i don't believe democrats will suddenly say, you took money from billionaires so we're going to opt for somebody who we believe has no shot against the president. i think that falls down low on the list in this election. >> it's a totally different ball

it's a thank you call. but it's never as simple as thank you call between the united states and russia. there's strategies there, there's games being played on both sides. >> it's interesting because president trump is so transactional with every relationship. he never really seems to give anything away for free. he wants money for things, he wants favors in return. with president putin, we did hand over this intelligence report, but what did he do on this phone call to advance u.s. national security? he was being thanked for helping russian security, but what did he do to again advance u.s. goals? ahead of every presidential phone call, the national security team gives the president talking points that advance u.s. national security interests. it is unfortunately up to the president whether he uses those talking points or not on calls with leaders like vladimir putin. >>ud you alluded to this earlier but you said is anyone else wondering which u.s. officials were authorized to listen to the the call and/or

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it's called politics. but if this can become the new standard of impeachment, that congress can impeach any president whose mote iskz his opponents question, if this is allowed to replace treason, bribery and other high crimes, is the standard for nullifying a national election and substituting the judgment of congress instead of the judgment of the american people, well then no president can make any decision without subjecting the nation to the travesty going on today. the executive branch will be sub ordinated to the ledge labtive serving at the pleasure of congress. we'll have been utterly stroyed. i yield back. >> for what purpose does mr. collins seek recognition? >> move to strike. >> recognized. >> thank you. as we went through this amendment which i think is probably one of the most telling amendments and when put to a vote is going to tell a lot, because this is the more amore fous amendment you could have. this is one even when i was waiting for the announcement from the chairman and others, i w