serve his country and this president calmly delivered devastating testimony to of the country that russia wants to elevate that is saying what russia wants americans to hear. they are either witting or unwitting. congress over ten hours. sometimes you ll hear unwitting put another way, a man with little to lose and no reason to is a useful idiot. lie. a witting one is someone who thinks like the kremlin wants. and over that time, ten hours, he told the story of what he they naturally do it and they saw, an effort to get a foreign would be called a fellow traveler. country to announce an the kremlin identifies people investigation of an american political family in return for u.s. military aid that was that are saying things that are what they want americans to hear appropriated by congress. and they help elevate them. that s really the scenario we have right now. as the story goes, all of it was agents of influence you could say that probably about carried out from the top. president t
the action, they re basically saying trump was investigating corruption. it was all about this anti-corruption campaign. rubio is not saying that. he s open minded. it seems to me if i d reading the tweet correctly he s willing to see where the facts go and the investigation rather than being knee-jerk defending the president. i think that s a potential bad sign for donald trump if a prominent senator like marco rubio who s in a pretty pro-trump state and who s always been very cautious about any criticism if he s suggesting that, one, all the facts aren t in, so let s wait, and, two, this isn t a coup as some republicans are calling it. we could be at the tip of the iceberg. we don t know. think about everything we learned in the last week. now we have the new york times reporting there is a second whistle-blower who s considering
but also months earlier who claimed eight didn t knew warse forced lately and you don t see the father of your children i love you please come by main to follow them and they believe some facebook online propaganda that it s all gonna be fine never mentally unstable not really we were for six acting them. and now you have some who probably lie about what they really feel but others. who never been the brightest and still aren t in. honestly say they went into i is territory he did it will always leak and return which was impossible after it was out in india and a theme which tends to tear decisions to count because after two fifteen whoever
they re hoping to get to something by the end of this month, but it s far from a done beal. president trump s ability to say he fulfilled this promise really hinge thons next month. is he going to be able to get something out of china that addresses these trade situations so that he can say even if the trade deficit is as high as it is that we are on a path toward it becoming a more even playing field? if he can t do that, think he s going to have a lot of trouble. because obviously this is a macro economic situation. there are u.s. companies that are stopping, for example, there was an announcement from gm this week stopping manufacturing in the united states. it s a mixed bag out there and president trump is not going to be able to run on i did this the way i promised. yeah. abby, alex, anne, thank you all very much for the conversation. meanwhile, democrats are facing a division in their ranks. the heated argument over a house resolution aimed at condemning one member s alleged an
engagement around people s family in politics. and his entry into the field, were it to happen, were that final 5% to be achieved there, it would be a big impact in the democratic race. abby. abby. yeah, absolutely. it would have a huge impact, you by think alex is right that at this point most of the democrats out there recognize that joe biden is likely to jump in and they ve factored that into their calculus. i think biden is trying to run in a lane that a lot of the democrats currently in the race right now aren t in. one, it s a little bit more politically moderate, although i think that s a bit overstated given that his eight years in the obama administration. but secondly, joe biden is one of the few people who has a really long record on foreign policy. he s he s been second in command to the president of the united states. there s pretty much no one in the race right now who can really count that kind of experience to his credit.