funds sending abroad don t change the story now, charlie. make no mistake just because the president of the united states wants to make sure that the taxpayers dollars spent efficiently and ethically it doesn t change if the person is running for the presidency or not running for the presidency. that is the first thing. martha: that is the question. what was the motivation for asking about it? that is where the debate lies here. the american people have to watch the whole story to decide what they think for themselves. that is what at the heart of this impeachment push. absolutely, martha. let me say this. hunter biden was on the board in 2014. 2015, 2016, 2017. donald trump said nothing about the company. it wasn t until trump announcea itwasn t until bidd the candidacy. that is also the first time that president trump decided if ukraine could get all the money. no, no, no. the ukraine aid was approved.
to go until the election. hillary clinton was up by 20 points at this point. you take a look at where george w. bush was in 2000. he was up double digits. of course, al gore won that popular vote. we see it on screen. the average difference, 11 points between where the national polls are at this particular point and where the popular vote ended up. it s still very early. the one thing i should point out here is donald trump, there s been over 50 national polls taken so far this campaign season dating back since 2017. donald trump has not led joe biden in a single one of those polls. it s been very, very consistent. now, i m glad you put all those qualifiers on national polls, especially so early. joe biden, though, hasn t done many interviews at all. any? has he done any interviews? not many. he does a lot with local media. not a lot of national. not a lot of national. right. so, there s still a lot here that joe biden is going to say that is going to help him or
of michael cohen. the special counsel of the southern district may have the tapes of michael cohen. we heard of one tape where mr. trump talks about making the payment to stormy daniels. in my hand i have a copy of a check michael cohen will talk to you in public testimony. he will produce this check to you signed by donald trump. the date on that check, you see the yellow highlight is august 1st, 2017. donald trump was the president of the united states at that time. what does it matter to you if the president was engaged in reimbursements to michael cohen, what is the significance of the president of the united states signing what michael cohen says is a reimbursement check for hush money to stormy daniels? it suggests to me and i think most americans that donald trump is devoid of a moral foundation that it is all about self promoting himself at everyone s expense and that violating the
2017. donald trump had only been in office five months and just fired fbi director, james comey. the official reason for the firing was comey s handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. trump couldn t manage to stick to the official line, as you just heard. he told nbc s lester holt the firing was about the russia thing. now, almost two years later, we know that interview caught the attention of the fbi, according to a bombshell report in the new york times opened a counter-intelligence investigation prompting this sentence in the new york times report, which i am quite confident has never been uttered about an american president, quote in the days after president trump fired james comey as the fbi director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president s behavior that they began
this is very important that isikoff is saying this. a month before the presidential election, christopher steele was desperate to stop donald trump and desperate to get the dossier into the press. he went to a bunch of reporters, half a dozen. michael isikoff was one of them. they didn t really bite on the wholel thing. it wasn t until the intelligence chiefs, remember, the head of the fbi, cia, nsa went up to trump tower on january 6 of 2017. donald trump was the president-elect. they go up there and they briefed him on russian efforts to interfere with the election, and after that, there s a one-on-one meeting with comey and president-elect trump and comey tells him about the dossier story about trump being in the hotel room with prostitutes in moscow. the dossier has played a key role in getting trump and the t fbi off to a very, very bad