the same thing. trump doesn t want to be acquitted, he wants to be vindicated. and i know that trump hasn t said anything lately about having witnesses in the senate trial, but i m told behind-the-scenes that he wants both. he wants a short trial and witnesses. so i would not equate that sort of silence with acceptance right now until we see trump on television or on twitter talking about staying in line the same way that mcconnell did. he s not just doubling down. they re doing essentially the same thing they ve been doing. rudy giuliani was just in ukraine in an effort to try to dig up dirt on the bidens and he returned and he was in the white house the day that the white house judiciary committee was moving to advance the articles of impeachment to the floor. and according to what he told the journal, trump called him about these very issues. let me read that as you go. when he returned to new york, this is in the wall street journal, when he returned to new york, the president
manage to ring a lot of concessions away from the administration on this. they negotiated to get probably what is the most progressive trade deal that they will have considered and that is something that i think pelosi thought would be worthwhile if they could pull it off. the interesting part is the grumbling is coming from republicans who say he gave away too much on usmca, who say where is the fiscal conservatism in family leave. there s also some grumbling about china. essentially they agreed to hit the pause button, but the china hard line has went around and the pushback here against the president s deal making which he believes help him is from republicans saying this is not conservative. and what is amazing about what pelosi negotiated is she has senator sherrod brown on her side who doesn t like trade deals and who appears to be supporting this one. and so if somehow republicans tank this, that could also be another boon for pelosi because
it s medicare for all or the clean new deal, free college. you can t really compare the two electorates, the british versus the american, but when you look at kind of the political strategy in boris johnson, he had a very simple message, get brexit done. he made that very clear. the labuor party s message was more confusing, and trump s message, keep america great, make america great again, he didn t provide any real specifics when he ran in 2016. there are really no specifics on how the president plans to govern when he s reelected. what is his agenda? there are democrats who have a bunch more detailed policy platforms, so how do they sell that message? it s a tough call, because sometimes we see our elections get nationalized. in the global economy, there have been times, even back to reagan and thatcher where u.s. and uk politics have sort of run in line, one tipping off the other. you had obama and david cameron.
down the run away. what did you get? more than you can imagine, mr. giuliani replied. he s putting his findings in a 20-page report. he s talking about writing reports for the last four years. so again take that with a grain of salt. but to that point, you have pictures of him arriving at the white house on the day the articles of impeachment are moving through the committee. this is the president trying to say i don t care, i m going to keep doing what i m doing. but it s a cynical effort to normalize it. everybody does this. everybody does not do this. trump and his administration have always tried to say the quiet things out loud and by doing that they think that somehow it normalizes it and makes it legal or okay. but it s the same with when he was out on the lawn saying china, will you also investigate the bidens, or will you also investigate my political rivals. and that s what happened, as manu said, with calling giuliani and saying what did you get after his trip to ukraine.