distractions with johni use eisenberg. he says i was just in this crazy basement meeting in the white house and i want you to know what ambassador sondland recommended to the ukrainians about investigating, announcing an investigation so they could get their military aid is inappropriate and i need to alert you i am lodging a complaint about this. another aide complaining right behind as i understandmavindman. i ize eisenberg vindman is listening to president trump s conversation with president zelensky. as soon as the call hangs up, he looked over at the other people in the room with sort of raised eyebrows. he s very disturbed because what the president has said sounds a lot like what sondland has said.
officer basically has two pretty dramatic, actually three now that i think about, dramatic interactions with john eisenberg. he s the lawyer in the white house council basically in charge of advising the national security council. and what alex vindman says to him on july 10th was i was in this crazy basement meeting in the white house and i want you to know what ambassador sondland recommended to the ukrainians about investigating, announcing an investigation so they could get their military aid is inappropriate, and i need to alert you that i m lodging a complaint about this. another aid also complains right behind vindman, that s fiona hill who you mentioned earlier. fine, eisenberg takes notes. the next time they run into each other is really about two weeks later. vindman is on the call listening in a special room in the national security council with president trump s conversation with ukraine president zelensky.
unacceptable to house republicans, many of them. what they are looking for now and trying to throw the staff members under the bus and labor union language and language about you can t try any tricks at the treasury department in the future, all of that stuff is designed to prevent them agreeing when in fact the two sides in many respects are very close. the republicans basically the tea party has already lost essentially on obama care. the whole game here was to try to seriously delay or defund obama care. it was a wrong headed and disastrous strategy on their part. they ve lost that. so they are still looking and still down on basement meeting in the basement trying to figure some way to reject whatever comes out of the senate. that is sort of the dangerous and unfortunate psychology we re in the middle of here. howard, you mentioned throwing staffers under the bus. i hope they don t get hurt in that bus clash because they would need health care. i wanted to try to add to the