for federal government officials. the third was extortion and i think even the l.a. times has conceded that there was no quid pro quo or there nts would be sufficient evidence of a quid pro quo based upon that conversation. sounds like that is debatable. yes, but ultimately people have to come to a conclusion. either it is or it isn t. and the fourth one is under the campaign finance law and the office of legal counsel said it is not a thing of value. i understand that may be of some difficulty to the average person to understand, well, can a can foreign assistance with regard to commencing an investigation be considered a thing of value. the closer that you characterize it as, well, they were digging up dirt on joe biden, that is not what was asked for here. what was asked for was an investigation. you can characterize that how you like and i understand why for political reasons why people do. but that doesn t make it a violation of the campaign guy
again, because i ve got to see what s so shocking about this is the question was asked almost a month ago, willie, the question was asked a month ago by an associated press reporter are you holding up military aid until they investigate biden? mika and i heard almost two months ago from a former d.o.d. official, hey, you really need to check into this. donald trump is holding up military aid until the ukrainians agree to dig up dirt on joe biden. so the question in all of that is, it seemed to be the worst kept secret in washington, d.c., that s why republicans denying a quid pro quo today. what else is there. is so laughable. but the question is, what did mike pence know? what did mike pence do? what do mike pence say in that
the past two days have caused an earthquake and you look at the impeachment polls, a dramatic shift with americans pretty much even on whether they support impeachment or not. exactly. as you recall during the nixon impeachment, it was very slow. the way the numbers eventually got to where they are now on president trump. and i think it s because this is some easy to understand. this is so clear cut. you know, people believe some would say it s so wrong. it s so wrong and there s nothing that complicated about it, you know. the president should not use united states foreign and national security policy as an instrument to try to gather dirt on an opponent in the election. it s just wrong. you have a 4-something page mueller report verses a seven page actually verses a memo
ask me about ethanol and i ll speak to that. with redactions. she s in a swing state. here is the against communiinte saying we are deeply troubled where the president of the united states held up military aid to a democracy under attack from russia until he got dirt that was dug up right. as was fwlin bloomberg opinion yesterday, no person in good faith could look at that and not say there s a quid pro quo. people are not as stupid as a lot of these republican senators are acting they are. well, to mika s point, there s a simplicity to this that is easy to understand. and to your point you can tell it s not a good thing by republicans because of the way they re reacting to it. they haven t read a nine-page complaint that takes 15 minutes to read. you have some senators saying i can t possibly comment on this because i m going to be a
it s astounding the things and people they re putting out in public that they think will help. so, willie, think about this. in the past 24 hours alone you have had the state department dragged into this by rudy giuliani. yeah. who is now showing texts saying, oh, no, this wasn t just me freelancing. this wasn t me as the president s attorney. this is official u.s. government business that we are all working together to stop a democracy from getting defensive weapons to protect against vladimir putin s invasion until they dig up dirt in the 2020 election. and then yesterday morning who else did we find out that the president was pulling into this conspiracy? the attorney general. the justice department. the attorney general. so this has already moved from rudy giuliani or even the president doing it to now the state department being involved, the attorney general of the united states and the justice department being involved.