Good evening.

We begin tonight with breaking news.

More damaging testimony in the Ukraine affair.

Another indication of how badly President Trump's personal attorney wanted to obtain

dirt on the president's political rivals.

The news follows two weeks of other testimony that taken together lays out the parts and

pieces of what is a wide-ranging, sustained, intensive campaign to get a foreign government

to do the president's personal political bidding in exchange for badly needed military

assistance.

And of course, this comes at the end of a day of damage control after the president's

own acting chief of staff conceded yesterday that yes, there was a quid pro quo with Ukraine.

It's clear, you just described as a quid pro quo.

It is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the, into the Democratic server happened

as well.

We do, we do that all the time with foreign policy.

I have news for everybody.

Get over it.

You put out a statement just out of course later trying to say that he never said that

or didn't mean that, which is a hard case to make when you put it in the context of two

weeks of congressional testimony documentary evidence on the question.

Two Thursdays ago, two Thursdays ago, lawmakers released text messages among the key players

outlining this aid for dirt deal as well as one diplomat sharp objection to what he recognized

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