bad to much, much worse. the idea that vital military assistance would be withheld for such a patently political reason, for the reason of serving the presidential reelection campaign, is a phenomenal breach of the president s duty to defend our national security and i hope that every member democrat and republican will speak out and condemn this illicit action by the president and his chief of staff. thank you. the washington post reports officials close to trump were infuriated by mulvaney s comments during his new conference that essentially acknowledged a quid pro quo, under which ukraine would receive aid that might benefit his cam ann. one trump adviser called it totally inexplicable. he literally said the thing that the president and advisers said
his cam ann. one trump adviser called it totally inexplekible. he literally said the thing that the president and advisers said did not happen. as democrats and republicans in washington were reeling, even attorney general william barr apparently decided he wanted no part of what mick mulvaney was selling today. and so an unnamed justice department official began telling news organizations the justice department doesn t know what mulvaney was talking about. a senior justice department official told nbc news, quote, if the white house was withholding aid from ukraine with regard to any part of the justice department, that is news to us. mick mulvaney is going to be fired. that s what happens to all trump white house chief of staff. it is simply a question of timing. will the impeachment process
that couldn t have helped things for rick perry. and maybe governor perry has some plan to stick it out and run a you know, i guess it would be the first successful volunteer-based campaign for president while under indictment. maybe he ll be the guy who pulls that off. who knows? but it feels like rick perry may be toast. the polling results after that first hugely watched debate suggests the other person who may be toast is new jersey governor chris christie governor christie has been at the ragged edge of irrelevance throughout this cam ann year long. not only did he not get a bump out of his debate performance but he dropped even further than he was in the polls. his poll numbers are low enough that if a candidate like carly fiorina continues to do well as she has been in recent poll, carly fiorina may bump chris christie out of the top ten so he will only be at the kids table debate next month when that debate is hosted by cnn.
attorney general was also indicted right before that first republican presidential debate that was an unwelcome reminder of rick perry s own legal troubles at home. it was referenced in basically every news article written about the texas a.g. getting indicted and getting his own mug shot taken. that couldn t have helped things for rick perry. and maybe governor perry has some plan to stick it out and run a you know, i guess it would be the first successful volunteer-based campaign for president while under indictment. maybe he ll be the guy who pulls that off. who knows? but it feels like rick perry may be toast. the polling results after that first hugely watched debate suggests the other person who may be toast is new jersey governor chris christie governor christie has been at the ragged edge of irrelevance throughout this cam ann year long. not only did he not get a bump out of his debate performance but he dropped even further than he was in the polls. his poll numbers are low
is another bridge we re probably not ready to get to but certainly it is an attack and it demands a serious and significant response. now, to your point, a chaotic political spectacle. they do say they re going to ascribe a motive behind the attack. what do you think that motive will be? that clearly matters to president-elect donald trump. my guess and i think it s terrific this is going to be released in a public format as early as next week, i think we re going to see the motivation is twofold. one is to create a psychological sense of doubt about the political process and, secondly, i think it appears to me from everything i can see and read that this was intended to undermine secretary clinton s cam ann. we haven t heard anything about delegitimizing donald trump s win. we didn t hear it affecte actual polls, it was more about