was a message, and of course you had the g-7 and that s in and of itself a whole nother subject, so maybe he was uneasy about how that was going to play. it just did not go well. and you re seeing that not just from democrats, but also republicans scratching their heads and making statements that they re concerned about this. i m sure you just heard danny heck, the congressman saying, look, things are starting to come into focus. how do you think your former boss, nancy pelosi, is seeing all of this? obviously it comes as house democrats continue to call this stream of witnesses, some of them implicating the president in different ways. then you have mick mulvaney. does it accelerate in your view for her this impeachment inquiry, and maybe turn it into something more? no, i think the way she sees it is up to the chairman to go ahead and continue these depositions. look, more people are going to keep talking. right now what we have and what was created yesterday by the white house,
him himself like this, would be frog marched out of the building, indicted and after conviction sent to prison for doing what donald trump has just done. so i will also say some brilliant reporting on this. you have all of the details about how doral has been in decline. it s net operating income a key figure representing the amount left over after expenses are paid, fell by 69% between 2015 and 2017. and yet repeatedly mick mulvaney said yesterday the ft said he s not going to profit from this. well, there s been a lot of vague talk that the president is not going to profit, he s not going to seek to overcharge the government. we ve seen nothing concrete or in detail. when we see that we can evaluate it. right now it s just a lot of loose talk. let me say, too, even if trump just charges his costs and he doesn t seek to make a profit,
in a quid pro quo with ukraine, despite weeks of denials by the house. we do that all the time with foreign policy. let s be clear about what he did there. he undercut the president and gave ammunition for the democrats impeachment inquiry that is ongoing. and then mulvaney went on to say get over it, before later trying to walk everything back, denying he ever said there was a quid pro quo. we have our new reporting on exactly what went down in the hours after, and reaction from capitol hill from a lawmaker on one of the committees leading the impeachment investigation. and it s dead line day. democrats demanding documents from mick mulvaney and energy secretary rick perry as part of their impeachment probe. we ve learned that perry, who has emerged as a central figure in the ukraine controversy, has resigned and will leave by the end of the year. he spoke just a short time ago. we ll tell you what he had to say. we ve got an awful lot to get to
appropriate. but a lot of questions swirling around whether or not he is going to cooperate with the demands by house democrats for documents and likely for him to come and testify, as this impeachment inquiry gets under way, and given that he is going to be out by the end of the year. and jeff bennett, obviously a lot of conversation has been had since mm mick mulvaney s news conference. what are you hearing on capitol hill? caller: chris, i can tell you that minutes after that remarkable press briefing wrapped up yesterday, we caught up with adam schiff and he told me in his view that things have gone very, very bad to much, much worse for the trump administration. we should be clear about one thing, though. the law makes plain that it is illegal for any person to accept anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a u.s. election. you do not need a quid pro quo for a violation to occur. and that is regardless of whatever mick mulvaney said that he s now trying to
a month, when he was asked about whether ukraine s aid was incumbent upon them deciding to investigate the democrats. here s the president. there was no quid pro quo at all. there is no quid pro quo. there was no quid pro quo. there was no quid pro quo, unlike biden. there was no quid pro quo. there was nothing. and that s not all of the examples, matt, and then you have the president s chief of staff contradicting his boss, basically implicating him for an impeachable offense. as someone who ran the white house who was in that job, can you explain what happened with mick mulvaney yesterday? not as clearly as i might like to, chris, in response to your question. good morning. the white house briefing room, as you know first hand, can be a pretty tough venue. and it s best when you go behind that podium to really have your