he said after visiting karen early that evening, he spent the night with a friend, george solomon in moon lake an hour to the north. >> he did, in fact, go up to where george was staying with his girlfriend if pasco county. there was confirmed by george and george's girlfriend. george gave us a time line consistent with what permaner gave us. >> his story checked out and he voluntarily came clean. he had a record. he had done time. >> early on in your life, you get in trouble. what was going on with you? >> i was running an escort service. got stupid, started it up small, basically, running an ad out of a newspaper, getting a small office. it expanded and ballooned. >> what kind of money were you pulling down a week? >> i was grossing about six to $7,000 a day. >> a day? you were how old? >> 20. that's the trap. why am i going to school when i'm making this kind of money? >> yes. >> it ended up in a gunfight? >> yes, sir. >> tim says he was worried he'd be painted as a bad guy right away because of his sordid past. so he promised to cooperate every way possible. the cops took him up

you have a pro-trump guy named george solomon with these pipe, nunes on the phone, they're all checking in with each other like the menendez brothers. they're all in this thing together. anyway, what did you make of those phone calls? >> well, what we found out is this a president who loves chaos. he operates by chaos abroad. he operates by chaos in the white house. and so there's nobody really in charge to provide any order to how you approach these crises. there's nobody who's telling him right or wrong. and so he's in contact with his so-called personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who's doing all of his dirty work in the ukraine. and so these calls only make clear that there was a close connection between the president and giuliani in the effort to try to be able to somehow produce an investigation on joe biden. it's unheard of that a white house would operate with this kind of chaos. >> you've probably studied all the books on how to run a presidency, and where a president like jack kennedy would point to different people and assign people different directions. fdr used that method. eise

all these guys, even george solomon who writes all these fringy columns supporting these theories about the ukrainians back in 2016, it all seem tuesday be connected through phone calls the way you look at it now. we can see it. >> no, it is, chris. and the bottom line is this is not how our government is supposed to work. all the people we saw testifying at those impeachment hearings, former ambassadors, public and civil servants, they did not want to caro out this corrupt scheme. they knew it was not in the u.s. national interest. they knew it was putting extraordinary pressure on an ally of ukraine that's been invaded by russia. so what happened is in order to carry out this quid pro quo, to pressure ukraine trump essentially had to setup a shadow foreign policy through people like rudy giuliani, bringing in someone like gordon sondland who has no role in ukrainian policy. outsourcing some of these dirty operative deeds to devon nuance. and i thought where chairman schiff is very powerful is making the case why we have to act in that urgently. the republicans want to make it seem lik

[video clip] >> today is a solomon sad day. for the third time in a little over a century and a half, the judiciary committee has voted articles of impeachment against the president. ♪ good morning and welcome to washington journal. president donald trump faces to articles of impeachment on the floor of the u.s. house of representatives, only the fourth time in our country's history that a president has faced impeachment. pushedcans say democrats for impeachment as a political move, while president trump is calling it a witch hunt and a sham.

information he was also feeding to john solomon who was a climpt f columnist for the hill. what i found interesting on the george soros thing, what he said about him -- that giuliani is more of a jew than he was, was in response to olivia, the reporter, her question to him, or follow-up question when he mentioned soros. and alleging that soros his connected with the former ambassador and he really funded ukraine's involvement in 2016 which is baseless. he claims he has evidence. he's not giving us the evidence. but her follow-up was if you attack soros are you worried it's going to be perceived as senate-semitic. that's when he said, give me a break. i'm more jewish than he is. it is not as if mentioning george soros is not explicitly, blatantly anti-semitic in many parts of conservative media, in many parts of, you know, of sort of the right wing discussion. he was trying to separate himself from that. but it's hard to do that considering the discussion and the attacks on george soros kind of go back to tropes we have seen and heard for hundreds, if not more than hundreds

[video clip] >> today is a solomon sad day. for the third time in a little over a century and a half, the judiciary committee has voted articles of impeachment against the president. ♪ good morning and welcome to washington journal. president donald trump faces to articles of impeachment on the floor of the u.s. house of representatives, only the fourth time in our country's history that a president has faced impeachment. pushedcans say democrats for impeachment as a political move, while president trump is calling it a witch hunt and a sham. committee democrats argued they are holding the president accountable for what they call abuse of power of the white house. our question of the morning -- what do you think about the judiciary committee's approval of impeachment charges against president trump? we are going to open up our regular lines this morning. republicans, we want to hear from you at (202) 748-8001. democrats, we want to hear from you at (202) 748-8000. independents, your line is (202) .48-8002 keep in mind, you ca