Costa Rica began a gradual opening of air borders in August after the total closure of borders in March, when the first cases of the coronavirus were detected.
the president has not been directly implicated in this process has not not direct lir ordered giuliani or sondland to carry out this pressure on ukraine. we had a piece yesterday, the kremlin loves what rudy is doing, anti-corruption activists in ukraine heralded ones, respected ones, hate what he s doing. they never listen to me. they can t help themselves. the origin of this whole ukraine story line is the day after the mueller report come out and he has some heat off of him. you know what we should do, talk to ukraine about political adversaries. this is a whole day is night, black is white. giuliani is basically wearing a t-shirt that says i m guilty and i m part of this conspiracy with the president and republicans are like nothing to
it really makes little sense. pamela brown is over at the white house for us. and just remind us, pamela, because you ve been doing a lot of reporting on this, why did the white house and the president think it was in the president and the white house s best interest to release this rough transcript? reporter: well that is the key question here, wolf. because remember initial lir our reporting was that the white house had been advising dna to not turn over the information such as the transcript, the whistleblower complaint to congress and then of course this was a big change do to release this conversation with the head of state and sources say in is initially the president thought this would take heat off of him and undercut the democrats argument that he had something to hide. that may have backfired given the fallout over this conversation that the president had with president zelensky back in july and what is interesting as the fallout continues an talking to sources they a
hard to reach away from the main roads, but we ve seen along the side of the roads a number of [ inaudible ] and patches of land as well. and interestingly enough on two occasions, we asked the police what was happening around there and they said one of the them at night people come out and start these fires. and also referred to how a lot of the patches of land we ve seen on the side of the road they believe have been started deliberate lir. th that is a in-made contention here here, jair bolsonaro created an environment in which people feel comfortable at starting fires. and what we ve seen along the long highways along with the hundreds of trucks that went up and down, thousands of cattle, this beautiful jungle and forest as many areas have been cleared so cattle can feed there.