political gain against the criteria of the country, that indicates an impeachable offense to me. nobody wants to go through this but we are pushed to the point where to preserve the constitution and our democratic elections, we need to do this and we need to inquire and figure out what happened. and i think that we have to have certain standard and norms. i don t think that it s a crazy thing to look into this as a very different matter. i think only this and only something that challenges my oath to protect and defend the constitution would have brought me to this place. so you believe it is a legitimate question as to whether or not this president jeopardized the national security of the united states in doing what he did with ukraine? i think that is what is on the table and we need to figure that out, yes. what does it mean to you that volcker stepped down, the special envoy to ukraine, he was working as a volunteer, also at the mccain institute there
big news. the washington post just reported remember that weird meeting at the white house with president trump and the russians and rex tillerson where the russians kind of laughed at the american media as they sauntered into this meeting with the president and other officials? well, the post reports that our president told the russians in that meeting that he wasn t concerned about moscow s interference in the u.s. election because his reasoning went the u.s. did the same thing in other countries. let me quote directly from the post reporting. here s what we re well, look, that s the gist of the story. all right? well, why does this matter now? here s how it fits in. it s part of the bigger story. it seems that it s not just the call with ukraine that the white house tried to keep secret. the memo and the readouts about what the president said to these russians was also something that was secreted away. so you can add it to calls
undermine what is about as hard a fact as you can imagine, that the russians were behind the hack and leek of the dnc emails. to think that the president of the united states is pushing a conspiracy theory, that only fringe actors, by the way, to include his personal attorney rudy giuliani, really believe at this point should give us all great pause about the mental state of the individual sitting in the oval office. but even worse to some degree, president trump is involving much of his administration into this. the mention of bill barr as a prominent actor in this, and it s unclear exactly what bill barr was supposed to discuss, whether it was the biden matter, whether it was the crowdstrike matter or whether it was all of the above. but for the attorney general of the united states to be carrying the president s water and for the president to be making that clear to his foreign counterpart is striking. and finally i would note that when president trump lays all of this out, the resp
i think adam schiff is sayingeer dealey directly with the whistle-blower counsel even though he s gone to the acting dni. schiff did not say they in congress were consulting the acting dni. perhaps try to cut their own deal with the whistle-blower and cut out the act be dni since they believe the complaint shot have gone to them directly in the first place. go to dan fin a second. stand by for me and we know in the thick of all this the former vice president himself is about to speak publicly. cameras rolling. reacting to all of this as he s been thrust in the center of this. he and his son hunter. what will he say? i m told by advisers to the form are vice president he s not going to dwell on the hunter/biden matter. they believe the white house and president is trying to muddy the waters here. told he ll focus specifically in a ten-minute speech or so on the president and on his actions. not simply ukraine but others as
with andriy yermak in madrid in august. mr. giuliani said in an interview this month that he assured him the ukrainian government would get to the bottom of the biden matter. he said his meeting was set up by the state department and said he briefed the department on their conversation. later washington post, which confirmed part of the the wall street journal reporting adds this. the call is part of a broader set of facts included in the whistle blower complaint that is at the center of a showdown between the executive branch and congress. and the new york times reports mr. trump s desire for a ukrainian investigation of mr. biden is part of the secret whistleblower complaint that is said to be about mr. trump and at least in part about his dealings with ukraine according to two people familiar with the matter. one unnamed source told the wall street journal that the president did not mention