i m watching the transition. i m not active and i don t really want to talk who i m speaking to, but i m aware what s going on. up um, um, i don t want to that s paul manafort, the trump campaign chairman the 2016 presidential campaign. even though manafort was fired as trump s campaign chair in the summer of 2016 we know he was quite active in the trump transition in the sense he was running a bribery scheme to sell interviews in consideration for top high ranking positions in the federal government in exchange for millions of dollars to be paid to himself. paul manafort, of course, was convicted on multiple tax and bank fraud felonies, convicted by a jury. on some counts he pled guilty to other counts. as of today we can add another name to the list of convicted trump campaign officials. today stephen caulk was convicted for giving paul manafort $16 million in
medical and non-medical professionals to deliver on our belief in total health for all. we are kaiser permanente. thrive. so president trump and his allies insist their dealings with ukraine were only about battling corruption so that everything they did was okay. today s witness dismantled that
trump s big donor, ambassador sondland saying trump only cares about the biden investigations and trump being caught on a call with him basically proving just that, and then the bully in chief himself proving why the former ambassador to ukraine was worried by giuliani s smear campaign all came together with him trashing her in realtime. here s the tweet. everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia. how did that go? then fast forward to ukraine where the new ukrainian president spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. point of order, zelensky thanked the president for giving him the information about yovanovitch. so he must have so he must have been smearing his own. so for all the efforts of his defenders to tamp down potential charges, he may have added one with that tweet. listen to schiff. it s very intimidating. i mean, i can t speak to what the president is trying to do, but i think the effect is to be
being smeared by giuliani, trump proved why she was concerned by trashing her on twitter in realtime. chairman schiff hears about the tweet, shows it to yovanovitch while she s still under oath. she calls the president s tactic very intimidating. republicans tried to paint people of integrity as deep state sneaks, yet another of trump s campaign assets in that whole cause went down. who? roger stone. he became a convicted felon today. a jury convicted the president s long-time political adviser on all counts, mainly lying to and obstructing congress. if the charges withstand any appeals, that would make mr. stone the seventh trump person convicted of or admitting to lying to investigators. so all this is swirling in the air. it s all very troubling to the president, so much that he
associates and a never-before-known connection to president trump, putting them at the heart of this ukraine scheme. why did an indicted man with a shady past think he was on a james bond-style mission for our president? what do you say? let s get after it. look, it happened just this weekend. it s been so long. just this evening we got firsthand testimony showing president trump knew about the push for investigations and was monitoring the pressure campaign on ukraine. how do we know? a state department aide who says he and two others, okay, that s called corroboration, that they heard president trump on a call with ambassador sondland the day after the july 25th call between the two presidents. i then heard president trump ask, so he s going to do the investigation? ambassador sondland implied that he s gonna do it, adding that president zelensky will do