Making History; Top Trump Adviser Backs Up Quid Pro Quo Claim; House Votes To Move Forward With Impeachment; Constitutional Shutdown

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🗓️ 1 November 2019

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House Moves To Advance Trump Impeachment Investigation; Divided House Mostly Along Party Lines To Advance Impeachment Investigation; Two Democrats Voted Against Impeachment Resolution; No Republicans Supported It; Top House Republican Say Tim Morrison Testimony Undercuts Dems; Top Democrat: That's "Ridiculous"; White House Claims Morrison Testimony Good For Them; Top Trump Adviser Backs Up Quid Pro Quo Claim As House Votes To Move Forward With Impeachment; Bannon Goes To Impeachment Defcon 1; Federal Courts Weigh Fate Of Defiant Impeachment Witnesses As Democrats Vow They Won't Be Slowed; Former White House Strategist Steve Bannon Digs In For Impeachment Battles Ahead; Bannon: "Pres. Trump Doesn't Believe He Did Anything Wrong"; Bannon: He Doesn't Feel He Needs A War Room And That's Fine; Bannon: July 25 Phone Call Is "A Policy Difference" Bannon: What White House Is Investigating Is Corruption Overall; Bannon: You've Seen A Select, Curated Group Of Witnesses"; Bannon: "There No Evidence At All There's A Quid Pro Quo Here"To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	As the House was voting on the rules for the upcoming public impeachment proceedings,
0:04.6	outgoing White House adviser Tim Morrison was testifying behind closed doors.
0:08.3	As Jim Acosta reported, the White House is viewing it as a win for the day in that he
0:12.8	told lawmakers he did not see anything illegal in the President's July 25th call with his
0:17.5	Ukrainian counterpart.
0:18.5	He also corroborated the elements of a quid pro quo, which not surprised me.
0:22.2	The White House is not talking about.
0:24.3	In his opening statement, which he netted just obtained, Morrison says he was concerned
0:27.5	about three things.
0:28.8	First, quote, how it would play out in Washington's polarized environment.
0:33.2	Second how a leak would affect the bipartisan supporter.
0:35.4	Ukrainian partners currently experiencing Congress.
0:38.4	And third, how it would affect the Ukrainian perceptions of the U.S. Ukraine relationship.
0:42.5	I want to be clear, he said I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed.
0:47.7	So there's that.
0:48.7	At the same time, as we mentioned, he did apparently corroborate the key facts that diplomat William
0:53.2	Taylor laid out in his testimony, namely that congressional approved military aid would
0:58.0	not flow to Ukraine until the government there committed to investigating barisma.
1:02.6	The company will hunter Biden once served on the board.
1:05.9	Morrison differed slightly in saying that the deal, as he understood, had only required
1:09.5	Ukraine's prosecutor general to announce the probe and not President Zelensky.
1:15.0	He also took minor issue on where it meeting he had with Ukraine's national security adviser
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