Including at the top of the hour. You mentioned his meeting with the leader of venezuela, this is one of several one on ones that the president has today. Msnbc happens to be able to be in the room, interacting with the president. One of our teams producers is there. Ill be in the room for the meeting with the president and the leader of ukraine in just a bit. It is now 10 00 and were going to get to breaking news. As this moment is Trump Administration is releasing what the president describes as the transcript of that phone call that launched the democrats impeachment investigation. What we now know, it was a 30minute call with the president of ukraine two months ago. Weve got a team of reporters covering the story and lets get to julia at the Justice Department. What are we learning so far . We went over the transcript of the call and we also went over why the Justice Department is not going to release the whistleblower complaint. What stood out to me about the transcript is that th
Campaign. He did not do that. And if he abused his power, most likely he would tell president zelensky that he was asking to help his president ial prospects . You would never engage in conduct nor explicitly say, in this case, president zelensky, im going to bribe you now, or im going to ask you for a bribe, or im now going to extort you. This is not the way these things work. Getting back to you, we talked about hunter biden. Hunter biden had been on the board of burisma going back to 2014, correct . Yes. President trump supported ukraine with aid and otherwise in both 2017 and 2018, correct . President trump has done a lot for ukraine. Yes. But sir, isnt it correct that
President Trump did not raise anything about hunter bid skpn his 2017 or 2018. He donnell thiidnt raise any o issues in 2017 or 2018 . I dont know that he did or he didnt. Thats not something we looked at. You have no evidence that he did, do you . No, but i have no efvidence e did not. This video is pretty remarkabl
we ve heard testimony already. mr. trump said to president zelensky that he should speak to two people, his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, and the attorney general barr, correct? yep. immediately after this call memorandum was released, isn t it the case that attorney general barr and the department of justice issued a statement about his role in all this? . he did. let s put up the statement. slide 13, please. t from the department of justice. the president has not spoken with the attorney general about having ukraine investigate anything related to former vice president biden or his son. the president has not asked the attorney general to contact ukraine on this or any other matter. the attorney general has not communicated with ukraine on this or any other subject. mr. goldman, is it fair to say
important first because she can speak to the view from the ground. about what was actually happening in ukraine whenever giuliani was essentially under taking this freelancing effort on behalf of the president of the united states as private political interest. and effort that efbtly forced her out of her job. and yovanovitch is going to speak to what was actually happening in ukraine. what the president was attempting to pursue through giuliani and the second smear campaign aimed at her. recalled one line in the transcript call memorandum the white house itself released was whatever the president of the united states referring to yovanovitch said she is going to go through some things though. something that could be reasonably read to be a threat of retaliation. lawmakers will be spresed in digging dealer in to what she thought the president might have meant by the statements. i want to bring you in. tomorrow that aide who over
clearance. it is unusual what was done here. one explanation is this is a consciousness of guilt. there is awareness that there is a problem. obviously it has become on enormous problem. to cover it up, to deep six it in some code word national security database which would never include something as banal as a call memorandum even if it was confidential is a red flag for me. by the way, there is reporting out there that there were other call transcripts put in the database. i would like to know what the reason for that was since it seems to be where you try to hide the president s misconduct. later today in addition to this hearing there will be a vote on the house floor on the impeachment process. we understand that almost every democrat will vote for it save maybe two to four. the number seems to be in flux. not enough to sink it. we haven t heard a republican come forward to say he or she will vote in favor of the impeachment process the way it s constructed now. what does that t