this inquiry. it is important to note that i m not a political appointee or engaging in politics. it is not my job to cover or advice on u.s. politics. i m a foreign policy professional and i focus on the politics of the country in which i servetr so we can better understand the local landscape and advance political interests there.in in the period we cover today, we followed direct guidance from others. i arrived in kiev on august 17th. from august 17th to the removal of her post, i was ambassador
represented real change in ukraine, the statement should include specific reference. there was no mention of vice president biden these conversations. we discussed these points and i added the statements to include these points to see how it looks. i then discussed it further. he said that for a number of reasons, including the fact that he was still officially the prosecutor general, they do not want to mention 2016. i agreed. the idea of putting out a statement was shelved. these were the last conversations i had about this statement, which were on or about august 17th-18th. my last contact according to my records was on august 13th. until he tried to reach me on september 20th after the impeachment inquiry was launched. at this time, that is to say in the middle of august, i thought the idea of issuing the
and curt volker says that is the clear message so far. august 17th. here is september 1st. the senior u.s. diplomat in ukraine. are we now saying that security assistance, meaning those millions of dollars, and white house meeting are conditioned on these investigations to which gordon sunland says, call me. and then september 8th, bill taylor says the nightmare is that ukrainians give this interview, meaning the statement, and don t get the security assistance, meaning the millions of dollars. the russians would love that he suggests. and he would quit he suggests. are you comfortable with seeing that kind of agreement? of course not. and i think some of these things are indeed damning. however i want to make sure we get through this entire investigation before coming to some kind of conclusions. i think these are serious
involvement at all, which is strange because they are the elected government of the country and we have an afghan election coming up on september 28th, which is more important afghan people than some kind of notional peace agreement with the taliban. after all, they ll then get a chance to choose their actual government. so peter, you believe that the 16th u.s. troop death was the breaking point for this administration to move forward. i think they had a meeting on august 17th in new jersey and they were people who were very unhappy about this. john bolton, the national security adviser was not happy and both the military and cia pushed back heavy on the notion of a total withdrawal because they want to be able to continue with their counterterrorism mission in afghanistan which requires a certain number of troops for it to be b successful. so admiral, secretary of state mike pompeo defending the president this morning about this meeting on u.s. soil. camp david, et cetera.
president trump is trying to push past that making this pitch to voters. but you have no choice but to vote for me because your 401(k)s down the tubes, everything is going to be down the tubes. and why is president trump obsessed with buying greenland? greenland is covered with ice and iceland is very nice. it s saturday, august 17th. the trade war continues. germany s economy is falling apart. the stock market had its worst day of the year. for years every one of the world s economies has been doing [ bleep ] great. growing. nobody, they said, could screw it up. enter trump saying hold my beer. joins me this morning is shannon pettypi. let s begin with the latest news on rashida tlaib announcing she