elections. therefore today, i m announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. the president must be held accountable. no one is above the law. what does that mean? it means that the democrats are all now on the same page. it took a long time, but there s no new process that s started. this is about the politics of coming together for one side of the aisle. also tonight, an unusual development. our sources say the white house is preparing to cooperate, that they are going to release the whistleblower complaint at the center of this as recall as tomorrow. also tomorrow we are told from the president that he says he will release the unredacted transcript of his call with the president of ukraine. that call was only one of multiple alleged matters of concern. now, unredacted transcript, the call to our understanding was not recorded. there are people who tran scribe
people look at the situation and you ve seen momentum building that this is not what they sold it as originally. be that as it may, we see where that leads. as i said to congresswoman spanberger, you re not going to get gun control now. you re not going to get anything done once you go down this road. this man is not bill clinton. he cannot compartmentalize and start cutting deals that will get him higher job approval numbers after he s been impeached than before. ufr ma you re making a trade, democrats. we re not trading much. even the things we thought he might do on a bipartisan basis, that brief moment where he pretended to be for gun safety, you remember a couple years ago us thinking for just a minute that maybe something would at least happen on infrastructure because it would benefit him politically in addition to being the right thing to do, but other than a tax cut for corporations, this president has delivered on nothing. evens things he promised that a
doing them. i don t know why he withheld the aid but i believe tomorrow morning we ll have answers to questions i ve seen speculation run rampant on across the week and these last few days. but speculation suggests you haven t known anything except fundamental question. we keep learning more and more. you ll remember, i think, rudy giuliani was on this show and he went both ways on whether or not biden was even in the offing when he went to ukraine. and he said that the president, he didn t know what he knew and that he knew nothing about what he did. then we find out that the president was forwarding the same goal by withholding the money. surely that s got to raise your ears a little bit. the questions that i ve heard the most over the last 72 hours are what s in the whistleblower complaint, what happened between these two gentlemen? fundamental. fundamentally we ll have answers to those questions tomorrow and then let s talk. and so you want to say let s see what s in ther
potential trump impeachment, a non-compliant senate. not only are republicans loathe to move against this president, but experts suggest that while a senate trial is contemplated in the constitution, it doesn t have to happen. mcconnell might just hold a vote, cancel the trial. but the ultimate test here is how each side views its duty to the people and the constitution as captured in their oath of office. principle must win out over pragmatism, facts over farce, high crimes over hype. the interests of the people over politics. easy to say, but as we ve all seen, hard to do. they may hold a vote in the house, less likely in the senate. but all will be measured by what they do now in a vote next fall. so how many votes do they need to impeach? where do the numbers stand?
combined vote in the house and senate of 454-68. it was about defense appropriations and including military aid for ukraine to fight back against russia s intervention. twice this year congress was told the money was about to be released and then nothing came of it. the white house line? the a delays were part of a, quote, interagency process. in may potus and his personal lawyer started pushing their conspiracy theory over on fox and other conservative media. as we ve shown multiple times here on the show, they have yet to produce proof to back up their talk. the facts do not support a connection between the u.s. government withholding aid to ukraine and any investigation of then v.p. biden s son. you got the proof, put it up. back to the month of may. that is also when the u.s. ambassador to ukraine was abruptly removed. that came after the president s