his foreign policy in general. he has made best friends with the most despotic, evil, horrible anti-democracy dictators in the world while he s been giving the back of his hand to our allies. he did it again in this call, you know, dissing europe. and, you know, at the same time we all know that he basically even yesterday at the u.n. told this president just work it out with putin. it s like so naive. you know, i ve got to though talk about rudy because we ve got a whole block on rudy. but go ahead. make your point. here s the deal about rudy. he is not acting as a personal lawyer. he s not working on the president s divorce or drawing up a will. he s not yet. [ laughter ] he s not doing a trust for his children. he is doing one of two things. he is acting on part of the government, which he s claiming now that the state department
conversations about zelensky wants to have a white house visit, and trump yeah, but usually it s like he wants to go at a state dinner or he wants full or partial lunch or dinner. it s not like dig up dirt on biden. it s usually incremental things, we need you to show a little more leg on this or that. in this case it s about basically violating the constitution and violating law. and then we ll have the conversation with you. i mean, if this goes back to something ben was talking about earlier. ukraine, it s tragic because it s blood pressure a hbeen a h bed of corruption and all of the reporting shows that when you have these prosecutors the way they operated was i m going to prosecute you, but if you give me a bunch of dough i m not going to do it. and again as ben knows from the beginning we are over there in ukraine saying you ve got to end this prosecution because our goal was ukraine as a free and democratic country in the heart of europe.
as long as he didn t do anything stupid like i need a favor. right when discussing aid. so this new ukrainian president is discussing the assistance that is a life line to him. his country is under invasion. why? from who? they have been invaded by vladimir putin, right? it s never yugoslavia. it s never it s literally always russia. it s always putin. they annexed crimea. they are killing ukrainians. and that s what the president of ukraine is discussing and trump saying, well, i need a favor, i need you to investigate my political opponents to benefit my campaign before i could take a step like meeting with you or providing you this assistance. keep in mind too what the whistle-blower shows us, it s not just one call. there was over many months rudy giuliani having meetings in europe. he s not even a u.s. official. and he s somehow empowered to be a part of this? he mentions bill barr, the attorney general of the united states like he s his personal attorney. work with bi
needs to know about it. so a call like this would go to everybody who works in europe and everybody who works in russia at the nsc. these people said, no, we re going to pull this back and restrict access. from reading the transcript there is no sensitive information. there is no covert information. the only reason to hide that is to hide the president s corruption. so what they are essentially doing is using the power of national security classification not to protect the nation s secrets but to protect the president s corruption. that is a stunning window into the and let s be specific. because the white house told us what was in the notes from the call. we don t have a transcript from the call, but we have notes from the call. what the white house showed us what we have to assume is the best of, right? because it came from the white house. is that the president said i need a favor though. none other than chris christie who was on the air saying trump s going to be fine.