woodward and bernstein book on watergate. all the president s men. so many people involved in this caper, the screw, the information and the dirt out of this little president from ukraine. the way this project is structured is also classic trump. remember during the mueller investigation, one issue that appeared was trump sending his subordinates or directing his subordinates to try to pressure mueller, to try to pressure sessions to reverse his recusal. trump insulated himself and surrounding himself with people directly under him and essentially do what we would likely view as dirty work. and we re seeing the exact same thing when it comes to the president s efforts to pressure ukraine to investigate the family of his political rival, rather than trump himself directly telling zelensky,
and what grabbed me tonight was the breadth of it. it s like the line from the woodward and bernstein book on watergate. all the president s men. so many people involved in this caper, the screw, the information and the dirt out of this little president from ukraine. the way this project is structured is also classic trump. remember during the mueller investigation, one area that appeared was trump sending his subordinates or directing his subordinates to try to pressure mueller, to try to pressure sessions to reverse his recusal. trump insulated himself and having them essentially do what we would likely view as dirty work and we re seeing the exact same thing here when it comes to the president s efforts to pressure ukraine to investigate the family and his political rival rather than trump himself
programs and top-secret sources and methods, according to an administration official. former trump national security official said it was unheard of to store presidential calls with foreign leaders on the n.i.c.e. system but that eisenberg had moved at least one other transcript of a trump phone call there. this really lays out exactly how it went down when vindman went to eisenberg. all the president s men are in a lot of trouble, don. it seems like people have been keeping records of what was happening. not just ambassador taylor, but also lieutenant colonel vindman who was there for the july 10th meeting where he established quid pro quo. he said ambassador sondland said to the ukrainian officials they can only get a meeting with president trump if they launch investigations into biden. right then, lieutenant colonel slindm vi vindman approached sondland. he went to eisenberg. fiona hill testified she went to eisenberg and gave an account on this on july 10th. july 25th after the
is normally reserved for code word, level intelligence programs and top-secret sources and methods, according to an administration official. former trump national security official said it was unheard of to store presidential calls with foreign leaders on the n.i.c.e. system but that eisenberg had moved at least one other transcript of a trump phone call there. this really lays out exactly how it went down when vindman went to eisenberg. all the president s men are in a lot of trouble, don. it seems like people have been keeping records of what was happening. not just ambassador taylor, but also lieutenant colonel vindman who was there for the july 10th meeting where he established quid pro quo. he said ambassador sondland said to the ukrainian officials they can only get a meeting with president trump if they launch investigations into biden. right then, lieutenant colonel vindman approached sondland. he went to eisenberg.
president operating under the state department? this leads to extraordinary mistakes, one that we re witnessing in plain view. all the president s men are under scrutiny but perhaps none more than his personal attorney,ty lawyer rudy giuliani. nbc news is now confirming that giuliani attempted to secure a visa into the united states for the man who is at the center of the made-up fake biden/ukraine conspiracy theory that donald trump, his friends, and his administration keep pushing. diplomat george kent told congressional investigators this week that giuliani tried to secure a visa for ousted ukraine prosecutor victor shokin who was fired in 2016. shokin helped giuliani invent and shape the story that he, shokin, was let go by the ukrainian government at the urging of former vice president joe biden so as to thwart any investigation into his son s work in the ukraine. joining me now to face the legal