all in with chris hayes starts right now. s hayes starts right now. tonight on all in. i ve been indicted twice now in a couple of months. the doj seeks a protective order on trump. what s indictment mean? sure that s when your extremely dishonest sir. as front runners parting demands a loyalty pledge even for convicted felons. anybody getting on the republican national committee debate stage should be able to stay say i will support the will of the voters. growing calls for cameras in the trial of down donald trump. plus msnbc makes fun of me when i say that there are a lot of people that were involved in the biden shenanigans that are currently missing. the remarkable collapse of a maga attack on joe biden. no evidence that joe biden s did anything illegally. unfortunately we can t track down the informant. is the u.s. government going to prevent the saudi purchase of american golf? new details on two new investigations, when all in starts, right no
[silence]. Now, turning attention to the ron johnson letter, if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to the ukraine in september with murphy. Johnson called the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said i am not ready to lift the aid. Senator johnson, he writes a 10 page letter. Very detailed. He gives some remarkable details. I would like to read it. Its on page 6. This is Senator Johnson speak. I asked him whether there was some kind of arrangement or ukraine would take action and be
lifted. Without hesitation President Trump denied such an arrangement existed. And he started cursing. He said no way. President trump said no way. I would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reaction was adamant, ve hement and angry. And as august 31st, the president said you will like my decision in the end. Thats very important context on the president s State Of Min
three-year-old secondhand hearsay, uncorroborated rehashing of rudy giuliani s bogus allegations that he got from ukrainian, corrupt ukrainian officials. now we all know that former president donald trump was impeached because he tried to extort president zelenskyy to announce an investigation into this ukrainian company, burisma, that would benefit trump s political campaign. the theory goes that then vice president urged ukraine to fire its prosecutor general because he was investigating burisma and the president wanted to help his son, who was on the burisma board. you know where rudy giuliani got this information? that fired prosecutor general himself, the corrupt prosecutor general. and we know, with absolute certainty now, that the truth is exactly the opposite. to be very clear, they advise
this investigation of joe biden, all of the witnesses, every single one testified that had nothing to do with official u.s. policy. president and vice president biden s request had no personal political benefit and president trump s did? yes, the witnesses testified if the corrupt prosecutor general were removed, it would be because he was not prosecuting corruption. so the witnesses said by removing that prosecutor general and adding a new one, there was an increased chance that corruption in ukraine would be prosecuted relating to the barisma company which his son was on the board. mr. goldman, explain what happened to the phone records obtained by the intelligence committee. i want to set the record straight. this is a basic and usual
contact reported to us privately that mr. lutsenko was sending thesenk messages and had met wi an american journalist to try to get those messages out. what was the u.s. embassy in ukraine s view of prosecutor general lutsenko? he was not a good partner. he had failed to deliver on the promised reforms that he had committed to when he took office. and he was using his office to insulate andic protect politica allies while presumably enriching himself. anotheren way to describe th corrupt? yes. now i m going to take a look at a couple excerpts from this july 25th call with you and the first one occurs right after president zelensky thanked president trump for the united states support in the area of defense. president trump immediately then