this is what we believe the testimony will show both as to the presidents congress and two s obstruction of congress. the issue that we fit confront is the one proposed by the presidents acting chief of staff when he challenged americans to get over it. if we find that the president of the united states abuses power and invited for an interference in our elections or if he sought to condition, chorus, extort, or bribe an ally into conducting investigations to aid his reelection campaign and did so by withholding official acts, the white house meeting were hundreds of meetings of needed military aid must we simply get over it? is this what americans should now expect from the president? if this is not impeachable conduct what is? does the oath of office itself require that our i don t like
russia that hacked the 2016 election. the nation s intelligence agencies have stated unequivocally that it was russia and not ukraine that interfered in our election. giuliani believed this conspiracy theory referred to as crowdstrike, shorthand for the company that discover the russian hack would aid his clients reelection. giuliani also constructed a smear campaign against the u.s. and u.s. ambassador to ukraine murray jovanovich. on april 29th a senior white house official told her that although that she had done nothing wrong president trump had lost confidence in her. with the sidelining of jovanovish the state was set for the establishment of an irregular channel in which giuliani and later others, including gordon sondland and influential donor to the president s inauguration of serving as ambassador to the presidency an end could advance the presidents persico, person
will get reelected. you can hear a lot about this from republicans. if they don t stamp the label of corruption on the forehead of the president he stands a good chance of reelection next year and even if it does not move forward in the senate democrats would argue at least on the campaign trail that they can say donald trump is impeached you should not reelect him next year. i think it s one of the biggest challenges democrats are going to face in this hearing and through the entire impeachment process going forward which is to make this look like a searched for the truth not a search to find ways to either overthrow donald trump or to damage him for the election. i talk to another topic democrats throughout the last couple days who said one of the keys to that is we have spent a lot of us our talking about schiff and the fact is there are some democrats who feel he has been overexposed had to out front and to political. when andy mccarthy talked about strategic decisions he has to
yesterday i was remembering john dean during the watergate hearings so it was not a compelling witness in some ways, he spoke in a monotone come hebert looked rather drive but he proved to be fascinating and people not only were taken with him and followed it but were persuaded and i think that is so important to hear in this very political active impeachment that you persuade the public. i think john dean helped to persuade nixon who had just won reelection just months before the watergate hearings and the whole watergate implosion. today i think for the democrats on the challenges to do it in a way that is serious but compelling and they were aware yesterday there was a memo from republicans saying how they planned to head of the center part of it is come as you heard earlier, from my fellow commentators to attack the credibility of people like bill taylor. we will see how that goes but secondly to shift the focus from president trump whenever