years full-time on fox news criticizing president obama. what senator harris is doing is continuing to traffic in lies. because she cannot challenge the substance of the argument i am making. heather: bad blood between candidates, kamala harris taking shots at all to garrett s character during the debate, did it backfire? carly shimkus with serious xm 115 with what people are making of this on social media. reporter: this was one of the only heated exchanges are relatively tame debate. gabbard defend herself by saying she attacked democrats when she feels they have done something wrong because she puts country over party and that message resonated with some people on social media. nick said democrats need to unite the country and speak to all people followed by how do you go on fox news and talk your policies and positions to millions of people who might not
sfwl of cour of course he did. this is really the bunker that the white house wants to fight on. they want to fight on that july 25th call log memo transcript. that s why you re going to see morrison come out, do a flanking maneuver on vindman. clearly they think the afternoon is going to be better for them than the morning. they ve been anticipating this throughout the day and you look at the official response. yes, there s the tweet going after vindman s judgment questioning his judgment with that quote from morrison. you have an official white house statement. that official statement is basically saying nothing to see here. that s the bottom line. nothing new. there s been nothing really that was that interesting but if you did look closely, what you would see is that vindman corroborated that the call log, call memo, transcript, was not altered . that s really what they re seizing upon because to garrett s point, the white house wants to have, they want to shrink this and have i
meeting with a number of these moderate republicans that they are deeply troubled by the president s behavior. but theypr view this vote todays largely a procedural vote, and that many of their objections, just like their leadership has been voicing, have been along the process lines. to garrett s point, many republicans felt like if they were going to dissent, this is not the vote they are going to dissent on.to we need to keep that in mind as we look at the vote totals. this is not comparable to previous initial votes on impeachment in that sense. i also want to correct for the record, ari, since this is a moment for history, and fact check some things that leader mccarthy said about this being un-democratic, because this vote hasn t taken place until 37 days into the process. do you know why that is? number one, this vote is not required under the constitution. there s nothing in the
the emerging narratives, rudy giuliani was out here freelancing, rudy giuliani was the guy causing trouble in ukraine on his own. not so says sondland. sondland said it was the president of the united states who directed everyone else to work through rudy giuliani. that is the connective tissue here, if you will, that democrats have been looking for as they try to place that one phone call, the phone call that started all of this, into broader context about the way democrats believe the president of the united states was using his personal attorney to get political benefit out of what should have been the work of the state department, nsc, the ambassadors around the world, all of whom sondland will say, a trump appointed ambassador to the european union will say we were sidelined in favorite of the president s personal attorney on work that he will claim ignorance about to some degree, but which we now know involves asking for investigations into his political opponents. kristen, to
biden putting himself in the role of reminding everybody how far from normal we are. right. and i think it s a way to kind of wake up young vectors people who might not be tuning in yet, might not be tuning into the concerns that he s outlining that, a civics lesson, but it s a way to reach never-trumper republicans who are watching from afar who are going to sit it out next year to say this is so not normal, no matter what you think of me or the hyde amendment, you have to come back to your country and think about how close we are to an abuse of power over and over and an autocracy. it might be an interesting time in the primary but it s a compelling general election message. to garrett s point about the blood first in politics. if anything happens to joe biden, think about how that affects the next stack of candidates and how quickly someone will rise to fill that