Investigations of the bidens and the dnc. At times the testimony sounds like what youd hear in an organized crime case honestly. The ambassador asked what the president meant when he said, on that infamous ukraine call, shes going to go through some things. Quote, i dont know what it meant. I was very concerned. I still am. Question did you feel threatened . Answer yes. The ambassador fell threatened, and it probably didnt help when she heard from a top Foreign Service official that there was a lot of concern for her security and she needed to be on the next plane out of ukraine. But it turns out what she needed to be protected from was the president s favorite weapon, and that is a tweet. Quote, the reason they pulled me back is that they were worried that if i wasnt, you know, physically out of ukraine, that there would be, you know, some sort of public either tweet or Something Else from the white house. And the president still seems to have a grudge against ambassador yovanovitch. I really dont know her, but if you look at the transcripts, the president of ukraine was not a fan of hers. But it wasnt just warnings from her state Department Colleagues that had the ambassador spooked. She also testified that she was warned by the ukrainians that something was up and that Rudy Giuliani was in deep. Question did you ever have any conversations after december 2018 with ukrainian officials about mr. Giuliani up until the time that you left in may . Answer i think perhaps in the february time period, i did where one of the senior ukrainian officials was very concerned and told me i really need to watch my back. And when ambassador yovanovitch called Eu AmbassadorGordon Sondland for advice, he told her, go big or go home. You need to, you know, tweet out there that you support the president and that all these are lies and everything else. Going on to say, you know the president. Well, maybe you dont know him personally, but you know. You know the sorts of things that he likes. You know, go out there battling, gr aggressively, and, you know, praise him or support him. Advice that any foreign Career Service officer would be pretty reluctant to take. And this is really amazing, even for a president who spends his morningings in executive time watching tv, who seems to believe if its not on tv, it didnt happen. Ambassador yovanovitch testifying when she was told she was losing her post, she was told that someone, perhaps the secretary of state, would call up sean hannity to figure out what was going on. Yep, that sean hannity, the one on fox news. The secretary or perhaps somebody around him was going to place a call to mr. Hannity on fox news to say, you know what is going on . I mean do you have proof of these kinds of allegations or not . And if you have proof, you know, tell me, and if not, stop. Hannity saying tonight on his show the ambassador was barely mentioned. Then a few seconds later saying her name came up a few times, but he denies talking to anyone at the state department about her. And speaking of secretary pompeo, he seems to be up to his neck in all of this Michael Mckinley stuff. His former top adviser testifying that he went to the secretary of state three separate times trying to convince him to put out a statement defending ambassador yovanovitch. Not only did pompeo not issue a statement defending the ambassador, he didnt react at all to the request. Heres the exchange between intel chairman adam schiff and mckinley, and i quote. In the first conversation you had with the secretary, you essentially got no response to the request for a statement. Is thataccurate . Mckinley thats accurate. And in the final conversations with the secretary where you raised the matter again, you got no specific response to that issue when you raised it with the secretary. Is that correct . Mckinley that is correct, yeah and was there a third conversation . Mckinley yeah. So i presented my resignation on september 30th. I spoke with the secretary again when he was called from europe to discuss my resignation. Going on to say, again, i didnt get a reaction on that point. So mckinley goes to pompeo three times. He resigns specifically because the state department failed to defend its own people caught up in the impeachment inquiry, and he gets precisely nowhere. And theres more. Pompeo claims that mckinley never talked to him about the ambassador. From the time that ambassador yovanovitch departed ukraine till the time that he came to tell me that he was departing, i never heard him say a single thing about his concerns with respect to the decision you were never asked to not once. Not once, george, did ambassador mckinley Say Something to me during that entire time period. Well, someone is lying. Is it the person testifying under oath he went to pompeo three times . We will find out considering the secretary has been that hes been candid on this story before. He was busted. Remember he said this about the ukraine call. Watch this. What do you know about those conversations . So you just gave me a report about a a whistleblower complaint, none of which ive seen. Even if he hadnt seen the whistleblowers complaint, he was on the call himself. He knew plenty about that conversation. He said so himself a week and a half later. As for was i on the phone call, i was on the phone call. Pompeo versus pompeo. From mckinleys testimony, adam schiff. As the time you spoke with secretary pompeo, were you aware that secretary pompeo had been on the call . Mckinley no, not at all. Schiff and when you raised the issue with him, did he give any indication that, in fact, he was on the call . No. A lot more tonight on the testimony from Michael Mckinley and the ambassador yovanovitch but ive said it before. Youve got to wonder if the president s defenders really want all of this testimony out in public. That as the president tried to take his mind off of his impeachment troubles, welcoming the World ChampionWashington Nationals to the white house today. Throughout this season, the nationals captured the hearts of baseball fans across the region and across the country. America fell in love with the nats baseball. They just fell in love with nats baseball. Thats all they wanted to talk about that and impeachment. Well, it turns out his mind is on impeachment. The president spending a lot of time at sporting events lately with varied results. You remember the crowd reaction at game five of the world series. Joined by the President Trump and first lady of the United States. [ crowd booing ] there were some cheers mixed with boos for the president at the ufc bout at Madison Square garden over the weekend. [ crowd cheering ] but the president got plenty of love from the nats who went to the white house today. There were some notable exceptions including reliever sean doolittle, who told the Washington Post why he declined to go to the white house. Theres a lot of things policies that i disagree with, but at the end of the day, it has more to do with the divisive rhetoric and the enabling of conspiracy theories and the wie widening of the divide in this country. My wife and i stand for inclusion and acceptance and weve done work with refugees, people that come from, you know, the shithole countries. Doolittle also talked about his strong feelings on race, mentioning the president s both sides comments after charlotteville. At the time he tweeted, its 2017. Actual nazis just marched on charlottesville. We have to come together and drive this hatred and domestic terrorism from our country. And this. There is only one side. Doolittle also told the post this about his support for the lgbtq and his wifes two moms, as well as his brotherinlaw, who has autism. He said, i want to show support for them. I think an important part of alliship, and i dont want to turn my beack on them. I have a brother who as autism, and trump is a guy that mocked a disabled reporter. How can i explain that to him . That i hung out with somebody who mocked the way he talked or the way he moves his hands . I cant get past that stuff. Standing up for americans with disabilities, lgbtq folks, and people of color that is real strength. Thats what makes america great. Why was the president so intent on getting rid of ambassador yovanovitch . Is it all about letting russia off the hook for interfering in the 2016 election . James clapper, the former director of national intelligence, weighs in next. That life of the party look walk it off look one more mile look reply all look own your look. With fewer lines. 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Michael mckinley is a former top official in the state department. I want to bring in james clapper, who is the former director of national intelligence. Thank you so much, director. I appreciate you joining us. I want to start with the big picture, okay, because people at home might be thinking so what if trump fired an ambassador. His administration, his choice. But what were seeing is giuliani, the president they were fixated on advancing this conspiracy that ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. Is that why yovanovitch was targeted . She was in their way, you think . Well, my impression is that i think the real reason is that she was not willing to join in on this corruption and was promoting anticorruption in ukraine, which has always been an issue there. And i think she got in the way of this sort of second channel, if you will, that was trying to do Something Else than what has been traditionally our policy towards ukraine. Mmhmm. Yovanovitch described the rogue ukraine policy led by giuliani as a, quote, a kind of partisan game in that giuliani and the former ukrainian prosecutor, quote, that they had plans and that they were going to, you know, do things, including to me. Lets be clear here. Yovanovitch was known to be championing anticorruption in ukraine. So if thats really what the president cared about, why was she removed . Well, a great question. To me, its pretty obvious that, again, she got in the way of this second agenda that the president was trying to work via Rudy Giuliani, and her position as ambassador, you know, she had obvious access and connections with senior ukrainian officials. So you had this sort of two voices coming from the United States which were not at all consistent. And, you know, to use the president s phrase, even though he said he didnt know her, he knew her well enough to feel that she was, quote, bad news as revealed in the memo of the conversation that the white house released itself. Director clapper, i just want to read this. Its from one of Rudy Giulianis recent tweets. Frenzied dems proposed impeachment based on at real Donald Trumps acting under article 2, section 3 of the constitution, asking for an investigation of serious crime committed in 2016 that did great damage to u. S. And ukraine. Dems are covering up because its bigger than you think. Giuliani wanted ukraine to investigate this discredited Conspiracy Theory about 2016. Hes admitting to all of it right there, isnt he . Well, exactly. And of course this gets to this Conspiracy Theory that ukraine was the source of the meddling or at least some meddling. And, you know, at the time when our original Intelligence Community assessment came out in early january 17 and briefed then president elect trump on january 26th at trump tower, and he said, well, you know, it could have been china. It could have been a 400pound guy in his bed in new jersey. And now we have another theory already debunked and discredited that it was ukraine. And it wasnt. I can tell you that contemporaneously there was no intelligence whatsoever that the interference was coming from ukraine. It was coming from russia, which was validated, at least on a bipartisan basis, by the Senate Intelligence committee and in exhausting detail by volume one of mueller. So again and again, director, this shows this president still does not believe russia attacked the United States in the 2016 election despite the Intelligence Communitys conclusions, despite all the briefings that hes had about it and all of the notes and the briefing books that have been written about it. That is a huge problem. It is a huge problem, and of course the reason is that if he were to accept it or agree with it, embrace it, well, that casts doubt on the legitimacy of his election because, you know, it was acknowledging he got help from russia, which he did. Can we talk about this mike pompeo angle here and Michael Mckinley testified that he raised the idea of sending a statement of support for yovanovitch three separate times with pompeo. Pompeo denied that to abc, but mckinley ended up resigning. Which one of them do you think is telling the truth . Well, i know ambassador mckinley, who is a distinguished Foreign Service officer. Hes served as an ambassador in several different posts, notably and when i interacted with him was when he was the ambassador in afghanistan, which by any measure is one of the most challenging posts for any ambassador. And he is superb. And so for me, i believe every word he said. There is also the time where ten days after evading questions on his involvement with pompeo confirmed that he was on the trumpzelensky call, pompeo does not come out looking good in any of this. Dont you think . Yeah, i agree. You know, i actually feel bad about him. Here he is, duty, honor to country and all that, and it reminds me of the metaphor about the moth that flies too close to the burning candle. And thats kind of what has happened here, i think. For me, its sad. Director clapper, one other thing before we end our conversation here. Cnn obtained some of muellers interview notes. Manafort pushed a Conspiracy Theory blaming ukrainians for the 2016 election dnc hack along the same lines as Rudy Giulianis fixation. I mean this is a conspiracy that President Trump still wants investigated, and it shows you how long they have been pushing this nonsense. Yeah. Its ridiculous. And this whole business about, you know, the dnc server, which is ridiculous because when you do a forensic investigation, you dont physically move or seize the server. And that would be a great disincentive to companies to appe appeal to the fbi for help if, by the way, youve got to go out of business while we seize your server. So what is done is an electronic image, which was done in this case. So this whole business about the server is bogus. And lets assume for the sake of discussion that the ukrainians did hack the dnc system, which they did not. This was clearly and we have very solid on this. This was from russia. But lets just assume for the moment it was from ukraine. Well, that is a very small part of the total the totality of what the russians did to interfere in the election in 2016. So on its face, to me, its nutty. Director, thank you for your time. I appreciate it. Thanks, don. 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He was subpoenaed before he was indicted, before he was arrested to appear before members of congress. They wanted documents from him. Keep in mind this is the guy who paid Rudy Giuliani 500,000 for work he was doing, said he was not going to comply with members of congress. In fact it was days after the subpoena was issued that they were leaving the country, which caused them to be arrested by the fbi. His attorney now says hes going to comply with some of the requests from members of congress. Big thing for me here is what does this mean for Rudy Giuliani. You know, could this potentially bring some problems for him . And the other thing here is are they trying to signal something to prosecutors in the Southern District of new york by offering this cooperation or that theyre willing to comply with some of the requests from the members of congress . Jennifer, this is from the new york times. It says, the turn ja bout occurred after mr. Trump denied mr. Parnas when he was arrested. Mr. Parnas was very upset by President Trumps plainly false statement that he did not know him, said mr. Bondy, whose client has maintained that he has had extensive dealings with the president. What could parnas tell investigators about giuliani and the president . Well, we dont exactly know the nature of the relationship and the business connections that they had. But we heard from the released transcript of yovanovitchs testimony today that they were looking to do business in ukraine, and she thought one of the reasons that Rudy Giuliani was so keen to remove her was that they wanted to do business in the ukraine that she wouldnt support, and she said, listen, i was the ambassador. I would support any legitimate u. S. Business interests in the ukraine. So that all, when you put it together, suggests that maybe they were looking to do business that wasnt necessarily on the legitimate side. And if thats true, then lev parnas, of course, can tell investigators everything from a to z about whatever business things that they were pursuing in the ukraine and elsewhere and any other things they know about giuliani. This is what parnas perfect attorney told the Washington Post, jennifer. Any sentiment being looking at the Public Record of the president and parnas together during intimate dinners, waving to each other at rallies, taking pictures together, and parnas alleged involvement with the president s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, could divine that the president and parnas knew each other, he said. So we see the pictures. Does this sound like what happened after President Trump distanced himself from Michael Cohen . Yeah, you know, its always the petty stuff, right . The same thing with Michael Cohen. One day hes on team trump. The next day hes off, and then he goes in to investigators. Make the same thing here. If parnas is upset that he feels hes been getting the stiff arm from the president and his team, maybe he feels like its time to get off team trump. I mean could he have, in his mind, thought he had a closer relationship with the president than he did . Because lots of people have pictures like that with the president. Not a lot of people have pictures not only with the president but don junior, but in small, small groups, not just in a photo line and small groups and lots of time with Rudy Giuliani, who of course is very close to trump. Shimon, we now have this exambassador to the ukraines testimony, and you point to this excerpt from yovanovitch. Ukrainians were wondering whether i was going to be leaving, whether we really represented the president , u. S. Policy, et cetera. So i think it was, you know it really kind of cut the ground out from under us. You read that, and you thought this is why the sdny is involved. Explain the connection with whats happening with new york, with giuliani and what were seeing in this testimony. I think all of this, when you read her testimony and keep in mind, prosecutors in new york, in the Southern District of new york have read this today as well. So theyre going through this, and theyre trying to look for clues in all of this for their investigation. It is centered around the removal of yovanovitch. And so theyre looking at what was going on here. I think jennifer said it right. The fact that there were people in the ukraine who were not willing to do what she wanted to do, felt that she was getting in the way, you have people with potential business interests trying to get involved in different aspects of the Ukrainian Government. Perhaps theres a corrupt motive here. They wanted to get rid of her. There was a plot. Very clearly it says when you read this, when you read the indictment, Southern District of new york, when they indicted the two associates of Rudy Giuliani, they talked about this. There was this effort by the ukrainians, by corrupt ukrainians to get her out of there. And they used some of the help came from, according to the indictment, from these two individuals, these two associates of Rudy Giuliani. So it is at the center of some of what the Southern District of new york is doing here, what they are looking at. And when you think about it, if she is getting in the way of potential corrupt business interests and you have people in the Ukrainian Government using people in the United States to try and get her out so they can continue their corruption, thats a potential crime, and that is something that prosecutors in the Southern District of new york would look at. Its interesting because Rudy Giuliani, jennifer, is trying to get is saying that joe biden and his son did something untoward in ukraine, right . But yet he is a friend of the president s and people know he has access to the president. So it would seem that they would maybe want to hire him or create some sort of business with him so that they could have access to the president. Its kind of essentially a similar thing of what hes accusing hunter biden of doing with this president. And when you read these transcripts, you say you believe theres more trouble coming for Rudy Giuliani . Well, i think there may be. I mean when knows where this investigation is going to go. But particularly if lev parnas starts to cooperate, they will then know all of whats going on there. I think lev parnas will know a lot about rudys business interests even possibly aside from what they were doing together. I mean he was making millions of dollars from sources. We dont know who they are. We dont know what they wanted from him. But you Better Believe it was about access to the president. So then you have to ask what are they paying for and what did they get . Did you get my point . Isnt that what theyre accusing hunter biden of doing, having access to his father by putting him on a board . And theyre trying to get access to the president through Rudy Giuliani and this parnas person. Exactly. So Rudy Giuliani is using through trump the power of the presidency, the power of the u. S. Government to put money in his pocket. And thats what he said joe biden did to put money in his sons pocket. So, you know but you cant be logical with people like Rudy Giuliani, don. Thats the problem. Logic, hmm. Thank you. I appreciate it. All four white house officials scheduled to testify in the impeachment inquiry today were noshows. What will house investigators do . Im going to ask congressman jamie raskin next. 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We dont have time to go off and prosecute people criminally, which the department of justice wont do, or civilly or to even hold an internal trial with contempt of congress. Were on a pathway here investigating high crimes and misdemeanors of the president. If they dont participate, we will treat that as an implicit confession to everything were looking into because they dont want it to be heard, and we will treat it the white houses involvement in blockading witnesses as a form of obstruction of justice, which itself is an impeachable offense. So then you wont go to court. You said you dont have time to go and prosecute everyone. So you wont go to court. They just wont come in, and youll add it to the articles of impeachment. Yeah. I mean, look, if we could get the department of justice under william barr to prosecute people for obstructing justice, the first person we would get them to prosecute is william barr himself. So thats a culdesac for us. Thats a dead end. Thats not going to work. And civil prosecution takes too long. We could exercise the inherent powers of contempt that we have in congress, but at this point that would allow for another circus diversion and distraction by jim jordan and mark meadows and were not going to do it. Weve got the essential heart of the case, the gravamen of the case as they say in the law. We know exactly what happened here. There was a shakedown of the Ukrainian Government for political dirt on the president s opponents. They withheld 391 million in money that we voted in congress for a besieged ally resisting russian aggression. I understand. You know . I understand. We know whats going on here. Okay. I get it. I just want to get to i just want to sort of get to the bottom of whats happening now because one of the other people who didnt show up today was john eisenberg. Hes a deputy counsel to the president for National Security affairs. According to vindmans testimony, eisenberg is the person who decided to move that call, trumps call with the ukraine president to that top secret server. Do you need to hear from him . Yep. Absolutely. Hes a relevant witness with material testimony. You know, he has a lot of important things to say to corroborate certain details, and we want to know exactly, you know, was there a coverup . Was there a deliberate effort to suppress the existence of the phone call and the whole giuliani underground operation to sabotage the u. S. Ambassador yovanovitch, whose deposition was released today . Obviously she was the object of a tremendous Smear Campaign and a lot of propaganda, and we want to know how deep that went and who was involved in it and who authorized it. We had another hero revealed today in his testimony, ambassador mckinley, who just said in his 37 years serving republican president s and democratic president s, hed been ambassador in afghanistan, brazil, colombia, peru, hed never seen anything like what had taken place toward ambassador yovanovitch, and he had never seen a secretary of state essentially abandon his own employees, his own workers, his own frontline diplomatic personnel and ambassadors the way that pompeo abandoned yovanovitch. So he urged him to make a statement on behalf of the ambassador, and pompeo didnt do it despite the support of highranking state department people. And he said, ive had enough. Im out of here. Im not going to participate in turning the state department into an instrument of the president s campaign for political purposes. Ive read a lot of what he said in my opening statement. Witness transcripts are starting to be released. You just mentioned ambassador marie yovanovitch, who is out today, her testimony her transcript. A number of your republican colleagues like congressman lee zeldin, mark meadows, jim jordan, complained about not having access to witnesses, yet the transcripts, congressman, show that they all actively interviewed ambassador yovanovitch. Was the whole storming of the scif based on a lie . It was a complete fraud. I mean there were people who had to leave the room where they were about to question the witnesses to go out and join the fake freedom riders to come back in to have their Pepperoni Pizza sitin. It was absurd. But whats interesting when you actually read the transcripts was they had the opportunity to ask whatever questions they want, and they didnt lay a glove on yovanovitch. They didnt lay a glove on mckinley because theyre not able to discredit or impeach their testimony in any way. These are upright, honorable civil servants, Foreign Service officers, professionals of the first degree and rank, and they couldnt lay a glove on them in terms of what their story was, in terms of their credibility, the authenticity of what they brought to the impeachment investigation. Its a remarkable thing. So out in front of the microphones in front of the media, they talk a big game in order to impress the president. But behind closed doors, theyve got nothing to say. Right now theres only one story, and all of the witnesses, a dozen witnesses corroborate the story. And theres no alternative theory out there. This is not an Agatha Christie novel. We know exactly who did what, and the president betrayed his oath of office, the constitution, the people, and the election. This was an effort to alter our election by fabricating this phony case against the bidens. Congressman raskin, thank you for your time. Thanks for having me, don. 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That habz shared more than 5,000 times sp Buffalo Wild Wings have fired the employees involved. Joining me now. One of the men asked to move. And his attorney. Thank you so much for joining us. Ill start with you, this is a terrible story. The trouble started before you and the team were even seated at the Buffalo Wild Wings. What happened . As we walked in, my boy justin was greeted by the host and right away he was asked after he told what size the party was he was asked what ethnicity was our party. And it really just started from then. He what ethnicity. And then what happened . It went what did they say . So, we were seated. We werent real into accommodate that type of behavior. We didnt want to let it bother us. We were seated and we were going to eat anyway. So we just went ahead and sat down and tried to enjoy the meal. Okay, so, you coach these kids. And what did they ask you while you were leaving before even after you started to order . While we were leaving on the way out they asked they thought that we had done something wrong. They assumed that we were in the wrong. Because we decided to leave. I had to say to them, were not wrong. What were doing is choosing to spend our money elsewhere. Were not appreciated here. One of the most Difficult Conversations i had to have. What i was saying was troubling for them and myself to be honest. Did they seem to understand the gravity of it . It seems like especially in this day and age a really just out ray jus request from anyone and any business. Did they think they were in trouble for doing something wrong . Well, not per se trouble. They knew that they seen me having that conversation. And they knew when they felt it was difficult at that moment. So as kids they were concerned. Obviously they knew that something wasnt going right. And not exactly what at the moment but it was just a bunch of confusion. On their behalf. To figure out whats really going on. And then once me getting that message across to them was even more difficult because its like why, what, how . Is this happening. And for me to explain as a coach. I explang everything to them. If life and the basketball court. I never thought i would have to explain something about race. And color. To a body of ten and 12 yearolds. I want to ask him about the leem ramifications. Did you see the person they were talking about . Was the person in the restaurant . Yes, i saw the person. Actually he before i was asked to move, because of the color of my skin. The person was actually was the table right in front of us. And what struck me the worst after we were asked to move because who we are as people, the two managers sat with that couple. Right in front of our face after we had the conversation. Wow. Let me bring you in. I want to read this statement. It says we take this incident very seriously after conducting a thorough investigation terminated the employees involved and banned the customer who exhibited the inappropriate blaifr. For life. We value inclusive environment and have zero tolerance for and sensitive training in the chicago area bars. Is that enough . I dont. I hope that we can continue to dialogue with them. So that a better solution can be achieved. At the end of the day if theyre now talking about instituting Training Programs the fear i have is its suggest that there werent programs in place before. If they were they were not sufficient. The hope is that we can talk about those things. And we know that this is the type of thing that violates the illinois human rights act. And we know that this is something that should never happen. What we need today is make sure that in terms of corporate citizens do everything they can to honor and respect those who they invite into their establishments. What change are you hoping to see out of this . You hope that five, six, seven, 11 yearold kids would never be exposed to this. We would hope that it wouldnt be perpetuated by business in the way it was today. A week ago. Its interesting they wouldnt ask the customer to leave. And sat with the customer allegedly. And you say you saw them do it. Why wouldnt they ask him to leave . If you dont want to sit next to black people leave the establishment. We serve all people. It would have been a nice situation where if they were aware of the unfortunate views of this particular couple, that instead of supporting them and their conduct they would have said publicly, listen, everyone is welcome here. And we invite all people. Into this establishment. And cannot wait to see them serviced or glad theyre here and show everyone were glad theyre here. Thank you so much. Keep us updated. You bet. All right. Flattery, bullying. Threats. 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