kaiser good to be in charge for a long time today so get comfortable. brad why don t we begin with you and why don t we begin with transcript phone call that took place on july 24th. i m just going to read a little bit here, july 25th rather. i m going to read a little bit from the key paragraph where democrats are focusing on. the president is talking with zelensky he said i would like you to do us a favor, because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it. i would like it if i know what happened with the situation with ukraine come that is in reference to the election in 2016. further on down in that statement he says the following, there is a lot of talk about biden s son that he stopped the prosecution a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general that would be great. biden ran around breaking that he stopped the prosecution so if you could look into it it sounds horrible to me. we will stop the quote here and
newsstand every week but now they don t see the trump boosterism. so this story was broken wide open by a newspaper. but it wasn t the new york times, it wasn t the los angeles times washington post or a.p. first to reveal the hush company scheme. it was actually rupert murdoch s paper, the wall street journal. some people forget that the first story was actually published before election day, four days before election day in 2016. further stories came out earlier this year, and michael rothfeld has been on top of it from the beginning. he s joining me now here in new york. michael, great to see you. great to see you. it is a sense of satisfaction when you see cohen finally admit to something he had been denying in the past? i mean, your reporting is two years old about this and now he s finally confessing. it really is, because this was kind of a classic journalistic effort of peeling away layers of the onion,
between himself and his former campaign chairman. here s what he wrote via twitter. the president writing, quote, as only one of two peoe who could become president, why would the fbi or department of justice not have told me they were seeking an investigation nand not told e that they were investigating paul manafort? should have told me. paul manafort came into the campaign very late and was with us for a short period of time. he represented ronald reagan, bob dole and many others over the years, but we should have been told that comey and the boys were doing a number on him, and he wouldn t have been hired. surveillance on him didn t begin until late august 2016. further, the president s claim that he was only with the campaign for a very short amount of time and he started with them
shannon: on that point that s true. fine. what they re not telling you is for some of these countries the ban is permanent. obama never wanted to go after green card holders. he certainly did not discriminate against people from iraq who helped us and risked their lives to help american soldiers being prevented from coming here. shannon: hold on, julie. you said what i said was incorrect. it is not. with the exception of syria the other countries listed there is a temporary ban. those countries come from the obama administration. hold on. secondly president obama hardly admitted syrian refugees with the exception of 2016. president trump is capping refugees basically where we ve been for 15 years prior to 2016. further he did, in fact, issue a six month temporary ban with the country of nothing i said is incorrect.
behind hillary clinton. they want to dust him up because of the actions of a couple of his staffers who acted inappropriately. we are a long way between now and 2016. further away from the george washington bridge you get the more people are looking at the points governor brown mention. governor christie stepped up and fired the people responsible. people are running up to me in airports and say he actually went to the communities and apologized to the mayor for having their community affected. bill: nfl championship sunday did not disappoints. broncos and patriots and peyton manning. he was near perfect sunday. 400 yards in the air. denver s defense shut down tom