Transcripts for MSNBC Deadline White House 20190926 20:59:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
and impeachment ultimately is a kind of constitutional issue between executive branch and congress. people are exercise birthday that now. eli, one of the remarkable things about this whistle-blower complaint is in normal presidential scandals, the questions from the press, and i m more accustomed to being on the receiving end of those questions were how high up did knowledge of the impending scandal go. did it reach the president, did it reach the national security adviser. in this case the transgression was on the part of donald trump. donald trump on the phone with president zelensky says i want you to investigate joe biden and his son even though the ukrainian government has investigated, has looked into that and considers it adjudicated. and in this case the scandal s about how deep down into the, you know, did he contaminate the nsc. did he contaminate the cia. did he contaminate the note-takers. how far did the contamination go. and it would seem like the contagion, as the whi
donald trump saying, with what was in the record, just in the record that donald trump was holding up military aid to ukraine, with donald trump s own notes from the call, the white house version that was released say i need a favor from you though, need you to investigate joe biden and his son. how was that not at least worthy of investigation? so, i m torn on this one, and i ll tell you why. the reporting that we have is the career people at doj, not political people, made the decision not to open a case. i think it s likely that they would have given it a good look. i m sort of biased and would tend to trust the career people. but the reporting also says that they only looked at campaign finance violations. if that reporting is in fact accurate and they didn t look at anything else, then they need to go back and revisit the decision. but on the campaign finance violation, how is it not a thing of value to get dirt on your
buried in that explosive whistle-blower complaint released this morning details that suggest there are more witnesses than we knew to the alarming conduct that s now at the center of impeachment proceedings against donald trump. the complaint describes a handful of official who s knew about the july 25th phone call between donald trump and the president of ukraine from the report, quote, based on my understanding there were approximately a dozen white house officials who listened to the call. in addition to the white house personnel, i was told that a state department official also listened on the call. the complaint also named at least six other u.s. officials beyond the president who may have been involved in some of the conduct. those officials include rudy giuliani, aforementioned, attorney general william barr, vice president mike pence, as well as two u.s. diplomats, and
he d have them to investigate joe biden. and this was why sally yates said that mike flynn had to go because he could be a target for blackmail. you got to get rid of this guy. the president s national security adviser could be blackmailed. the ukrainians, little country under great threat from russia, they could have blackmailed donald trump if they wanted to. and you know that this is going on all over the world. i mean, that s why i want to see the other conversations that had been put into this code-access secret server. if there have been other memos of conversations that have been put in there that don t have national security around them. because you know he is saying these things and doing these things with other people besides the president of ukraine. right. now in all of this we re talking about barr and we re talking about rudy and we re talking about all the players. you know the one guy we haven t talked about too much today and that s bolton. bolton was there on al