process will reveal whether republicans will tolerate corruption, dishonesty and avarice in our nation s highest office. if so american s highest office and global standing will be indelibly sullied and donald trump will have destroyed the heart of the gop. what did you learn about that today? well, i guess i ve been holding out hope there will be republicans of conscience who will do the right thing. but i was very proud of how our diplomats carried out their responsibilities, testifying to congress today. i was embarrassed by the shameful, shameful performance of republicans who seem to have no interest in uncovering the truth and doing what is right and consistent with american values and principles. and so it seems as though they re going to continue to circle the wagons, and they re going to defend mr. trump at all costs. and they have decided to jump into the cesspool of politics with him with their dishonesty.
corruption, dishonesty and avarice in our nation s highest office. if so american s highest office and global standing will be indelibly sullied and donald trump will have destroyed the heart of the gop. what did you learn about that today? well, i guess i ve been holding out hope there will be republicans of conscience who will do the right thing. but i was very proud of how our diplomats carried out their responsibilities, testifying to congress today. i was embarrassed by the shameful, shameful performance of republicans who seem to have no interest in uncovering the truth and doing what is right and consistent with american values and principles. and so it seems as though they re going to continue to circle the wagons, and they re going to defend mr. trump at all
maybe they ve learned their lesson that transparency has some costs? joseph, you re a former federal prosecutor sorks if you were trying to listen some, right? i could not have crafted it better if he was my own client. we ve seen the transcript, we ve seen the whistleblower complaint, but let s go to the witnesses that actually know what happened here. from my perspective, you ve seen a radical change in strategy in the last two weeks. going to the president saying, you want the whistleblower complaint, here you go. that s not what s going to happen going forward. they re going to circle the wagons, they re going to drag their feet and make every bit of information impossibly hard to get. how hard is it for a state employee to tell sondland, hey, you re not cooperating with the
going after the speaker. you don t see that often, wolf. it speaks to what is happening on the house floor, very partisan, emotional fight being waged. democrats moving forward, expect that vote still tonight to condemn the president for his tweets over the weekend. as democrats say the president should apologize essentially and the president and the republicans pushing back, wolf. the republican leaders are clearly trying to circle the wagons, manu, right now. how are they doing? reporter: well they are starting to line up with the president. for the most part the house republicans and senate republican leaders say the president was in the right to push back. the house the senate majority leader did say that all sides should lower the temperature today. he would not condemn the president nor call the president racist or his tweets ratist. he said the president is not racist but when i asked the senate majority leader about a very personal issue that his wife elaine chao immigr
matt, you have 30 democratic senators saying al franken should go. the next obvious question becomes on the republican side, what about the president? there s allegations from al franken, and they are from women before he was in politics, so where does that leave the pressure on the republicans? i can say, obviously, as we just noted, i think democrats are clearly trying to clear the deck and make a stark contrast that republicans are the party that will tolerate this stuff, and democrats have gotten rid of their predators. having said that, i think there s another ironic problem which is that if you, as a party, if the republican party sends the message that they are going to circle the wagons, and they are not going to throw people under the bus, even for serious indiscretions, in a way that disincentivizes people