why we saw so many career officials talking about the concerns regarding this irregular channel. if rudy giuliani was a government employee or even had been sort of designated as a special envoy, somebody who worked in a private capacity but on behalf of the government, he would be required to make disclosures to adhere to a series of ethics and compliance rules when he was representing the interests of the united states he was really doing that and not his own financial interests. so what we re seeing here this co-mingling of pursuing political favors for the president of the united states reportedly and also reportedly trying to essentially make a buck off of it, that s exactly why people are so concerned when ever they see foreign policy being conducted in this way. so, we don t have any sort of concrete information right now about what exactly the southern district is looking of new york is looking into, but it does appear that this is at least one element of that inquiry. this
lips or flows from my pin and inventing where facts fail them. some things never change, dad. donald trump jr. defend his father s quest for dirt on joe biden complaining children shouldn t be able to make a buck off of their family name. i wish my name was hunter biden. i could go abroad. make millions off of my father s presidency. i d be a really rich guy. it would be incredible. reporter: cnn obtained trump talking points that mistakerize the testimony of alexander vindman. it said vindman s testimony supports president trump s message and vindman stated the released transcript of president trump s phone call with the ukrainian president zelensky was accurate and that there was no quid pro quo on the call. here s the reality. vindman told lawmakers the transcript was incomplete and added there was a quid pro quo. with his presidency on the line, mr. trump is being urged by mitch mcconnell to avoid attacking fellow republicans who may end up deciding his fate. gop lawmakers are
explaining that the president of the united states is still in the hospitality business. the president isn t one for holding back his feelings and his emotions about something. he was honestly surprised at the level of pushback. at the end of the day, you know, he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business and he saw an opportunity to take the biggest leaders from around the world and he wanted to put on the absolute best show, the best visit that he possibly could. you say he considers himself in the hospitality business. sure. he s the president of the united states. yeah. but he s that she wanted to . he wanted to take care of folks. he s in the hotel business. or at least he was. so there, mr. secretary, is the chief of staff, acting chief of staff, who may not ever get the job, because he was trying to project or channel what the president would say, but the president doesn t want to be portrayed the way he is, or seen the way he is, which is that he s
attitude of this administration toward foreign policy. what does it teach us as we look at foreign policy under president trump? so, one way for people to think about this is what we re looking at the corruption. right. and as saying before, the u.s. ambassador would be there and be thinking only about you know, how do we help get russia out of eastern crukraine, get assistan for these people. that s the basic work of american foreign policy. then let s break down what trump has been with giuliani s doing. he s trying to use u.s. foreign policy to get the ukrainian government to do whatever is in his political interest. rudy giuliani is just trying to make a buck off of u.s. foreign policy. like this is the cord. there s a lot of money that washes around ewe yan yan politics. it has been dirty for many ye s years. largely because of russia. so the way in which russia tried to control ukraine for a long time was through money. so they have all these operators
that question and he s answered it many times. but what he s not going to do is play by donald trump s rule book. overnight we saw an ap headline that says that rudy giuliani, while they were trying to dig up dirt, they were also trying to make a buck off of ukrainian natural gas contracts. who was surprised to learn that? so i think what we see is that they are going to continue to try to change the subject and we re not going to let them do that. we re going to hold them accountable and remind voters what kind of administration donald trump is running and how it impacts their day-to-day lives. so let s talk about those voters. you invoked them and talked about the poll in wisconsin which does show our candidate on top. there s also new polls in iowa showing elizabeth warren is actually the front-runner there. when you are looking at this landscape of polls, are you concerned from the surge for candidates and the slight slump that we ve seen in some states for joe biden is an indica