not about working with the europeans to try to strengthen the ukrainian government but how can we facilitate rudy giuliani s effort to pressure this government to investigate the president s political opponents. that is a wholesale corruption again not just in the phone call but what the tax aided u.s. government was doing to do trump s bidding. barbara, ben just reminded, we haven t heard from rudy giuliani in a few days. one week ago we were talking about how he had butt dialled an nbc reporter, that said donald trump continues to try and have this tried in a court of public opinion. he in the course of one speech has now tried out the corruption angle and tried out the i was just waiting for uk and germany and france to do more. does any of this matter in the end? it could. you know, anything he says, anything he tweets are admissions that can be used against him later. if he locks himself into a
state department, the pentagon. everybody who d be sitting around the table in the interagency process was witting of essentially this corruption of our ukraine policy to make it not about working with the europeans to try to strengthen the ukrainian government but how can we facilitate rudy giuliani s effort to pressure this government to investigate the president s political opponents. that is a whole sale corruption again not just in the phone call but what the tax aided u.s. government was doing to do trump s bidding. one week ago we were talking about how he had butt dialled an nbc reporter, that said donald trump continues to try and have this tried in a court of public opinion. he in the course of one speech has now tried out the corruption angle and tried out the i was just waiting for u.k. and germany and france to do more.
it s the guy who works in the state department, the pentagon. everybody who d be sitting around the table in the interagency process was witting of essentially this corruption of our ukraine policy to make it not about working with the europeans to try to strengthen the ukrainian government but how can we facilitate rudy giuliani s effort to pressure this government to investigate the president s political opponents. that is a whole sale corruption again not just in the phone call but what the tax aided u.s. government was doing to do trump s bidding. one week ago we were talking about how he had butt dialled an nbc reporter, that said donald trump continues to try and have this tried in a court of public opinion. he in the course of one speech has now tried out the corruption angle and tried out the i was
investigation if all you cared about was corruption angle back to susan s point you are hearing trump hammer in on as i didn t view biden as a arrival didn t think he had a shot. and triing to distance himtz from anything about politics and trying to make it all about corruption. you re ending perfectly transcriptioning bus i want to get to jeremy diamond at the white house. and the exact point melanie is raising there, jeremy. donald trump saying that he this isn t base politics. this about corruption. this isn t base joe biden. and making clear he stays he does not he is not concerned about joe bidden. your reporting is otherwise. yeah, it s the exact opposite kate. we have known for months the president has been consumed with joe biden s campaign for president. and he and many advisers have seen joe biden as the biggest threat to re-election prospect. the president long viewed joe biden s appeal in the midwest among working white class
learning from polls the tweets do not work. if anything they backfire. this is not helping him at all but the walls are closing in on him. i think they rev up the base quite a bit. people say fight back. for people that are just going to follow trump yeah. but does help. small ball. that s that small and shrinking base. they re sticking with him. they have to express concern. that s key. okay. but you re doing that. to what end? that we have to go back to the principles. it is okay to support trump on certain policies but when he makes statements like this, it is extremely important to speak up and say the president s wrong. everything s not about politics. some point we have to stand on principle. the tweets are interesting because he s many things and politically astute and the corruption angle and the culture of corruption which democrats are trying to run on but this is the type of thing that settles into districts around the