this is a hoax. it s a hoax. this phony witch hunt. and we have action on the hill right now. lawmakers are hearing from philip reeker, a stop state department official. he s expected to shine light on the smear campaign against marie yovanovitch, the former ukrainian ambassador ousted after giuliani complained she got in the way of him digging up dirt on joe biden. and the investigation into cnn s personal attorney is escalating. investigators had to literally blow the door off a safe while conducting raids on giuliani s associates. that brings us to that rather unfortunate faux pa known as a butt dial. giuliani unknowingly called a reporter, leaving voicemails where he said things like this.
impeachable offense. it s stunning to hear not only john kelly but several former trump administration officials. you ve heard from rex tiller so, some other officials who have said critical things about this administration, about donald trump in particular. i think what it reflects is that he has no discipline. he doesn t have the temperament to be president. we knew this from before. this is one of the questions asked at the debate, actually. hillary clinton was asked that questions, does donald trump have the temperament to be president? they ran a commercial about it in the campaign. so the american people knew about this. his supporters apparently knew about this. and the white house staff currently knows about this, but they re busy gaslighting us, pretending like there s not a problem when everyone in the administration can see we have whistle-blowers coming out of the woodwork to disclose this. now we have administration officials from the state department, other parts of the
president trump. and that s because reeker is one of the folks at the state department who had been involved in discussions about her and what was happening to her and wanted the state department to come out and publicly support her, but they never did that. that offer that push, actually, was rejected by top state department officials. so that never came to fruition, but we re still waiting to learn more details of what he s telling lawmakers now. ana? we know you ll keep us posted. kylie atwood, thank you. coming up, another trump judicial nominee gets confirmed despite being labeled not qualified by the american bar association.
what are you hearing about his testimony? reporter: yeah, we don t yet have any details. his testimony is entering now its sixth hour, but what we do know is some members are a bit surprised. they re learning more than they thought. let me just read to you what congressman lynch said when he walked out for a period of time. he said it is, quote, a much richer reservoir of information than we originally expected, saying there they didn t have high expectations for philip reeker, who s the acting assistant secretary for europe at the state department. one of the reasons for that, a source familiar with his testimony explained to me that he actually didn t even know that the trump administration was pushing for ukraine to publicly announce it would investigate the bidens in 2016 until the whistle-blower complaint. but what we do know is that reeker is able to provide more details on specifically the ouster of the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, who was ousted at the direction of