So, that was those were the driving factors that he also mentioned to me in past the corruption

related to the DNC server.

Absolutely, no question about that.

But that's it, that's why we held up the money.

That's why we held up the money.

That was acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, making what amounted to a remarkable

public confession.

There was indeed a quid pro quo.

The White House, under orders from Trump, suspended $391 million in military aid to Ukraine

in order to get its new government to investigate the Democratic National Committee's server,

that the president bizarrely thinks is being hidden somewhere in the bowels of a basement

in Kiev.

It's an absurd conspiracy theory, pushed by the president's allies, a way to somehow

exonerate Vladimir Putin's Russia over its attack on the 2016 election.

Mulvaney's unexpected candor blindsided White House lawyers, and he was quickly forced

to walk back to the very comments the country had just heard on national television.

But the damage was done.

The White House had once again handed the president's critics vital new ammunition for the impeachment

inquiry.

We'll discuss with a key member of the House Committee's investigating the president,

and we'll talk with a former National Security Council official about the fallout from

Vice President Pence's deal with Turkish President Erdogan for a temporary ceasefire in Syria

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