washington and within the united states at large, agreed deal of dissatisfaction. people noting that mike pompeo s silence deafening. mike viqueira from the white house. thanks. the impeachment hearing exposing an ever-changing republican strategy and also the tension between both parties. devin nunes in a heated exchange calling the hearings democrats watergate fantasies in an effort to topple duly elected president. with me now former house oversight committee spokesperson and i want your reaction to that exchange there between schiff and ranking member nunes and republican congresswoman elise stefanik. i know ms. stefanik you had a few quick questions for the ambassador. yield to you. thank you, mr. nunes, ambassador yovanovitch the gentlemanwoman will suspend. what is the interruption for this time? it is our time. the gentleman will suspend.
the idea that white house sources are saying the president bungalled his answerers because he clearly said what he thinks. a classic washington gap of saying what you think and getting in trouble for it, it seems to me. the president was off the cuff and direct and sounded very much like donald trump when he said sure, i d listen to them and i wouldn t bother to call the fbi. he did lie about the fact when he said i ve never called the fub in my life t turns out he was an informant for the fbi earlier in his career. so yes, it s all very confusing. it s friday night. it was just monday that president had his secret deal with mexico. doesn t that seemt luke an eternity? ysz, it does. and at the top of the last hour we played what he said on abc
elected. classic washington gaffe. that s a pretty clear way of saying it, russia did try to help him get elected. the report says there was no coordination or collusion they could confirm on the part of the president, but the president today doubling, triple down on this outright falsehood, saying if anything, russia was trying to get hillary clinton elected. that s nonsense words. we heard from vladimir putin s own mouth he wanted donald trump to be elected. the report makes it very clear, it s not up for debate, but he s trying to dupe his base and say the exact opposite of what is true. try to confuse folks. key phrase from the mueller report is that the trump campaign expected to benefit electorally from the russian hacking effort. and that phrase bill barr cut out, cut off a sentence he put in his four-page letter. this is just the beginning. thank you so much. coming up, a lot more to go through from what the president said this morning. president trump claiming this
things, there is nobody ever been more tough or difficult to russia than donald trump. i have to tell you this, i put sanctions on russia at a level that nobody has seen before. this whole issue, whether how russia helped him get elected, wanted him to get elected. that is also addressed in the mueller report. it s a large part of volume one of the mueller report and what russia was doing. and it s also even contradicted what the president said there, is contradicted by the president in a tweet this morning. yeah, this morning, he committed a classic washington gaffe, which is unintentionally telling the truth. saying that russia helped him win the election. look, we know that s true not only from the mueller report, not only from the intelligence community assessment. let us all be clear on our facts. yes. not that russia helped him. it s that i had nothing to do with russia helping to get me
as gloria was saying. and they re issues that the conservatives really like. issues of executive power and religious liberty. but there are some controversial ones too. he had a controversial opinion on the affordable care act and another one about some kinds of abortion restrictions. so those are out there, and these hearings are also going to feature george w. bush for his time there. some people wonder really, do they want to relitigate those issues, things that happened during the bush years, during those hearings. it s for sure going to come up. a classic washington insider from the george h.w. bush administration. all right, everyone. stick around. you can see ariana is there at the supreme court where there are protests going on. we have a lot more to cover. the democrats who might hold the key as the presidents tries to seal the deal in the senate. four of them were invited to the white house for the announcement. they turned it down. is it a sign of things to come? [phone ri