because when he was undertaking this action with the ukrainians, he was asking by his own admission as part of president trump s official policy process. the fact that the president was using american aid that had been put in place, that is an official government action. mixing rudy giuliani s behavior here is part of the crux of the problem for the president. actually, i do think it s making some republican senators nervous. they may not say publicly, but they certainly don t think that it s okay. bret: okay so, what are the acts? how was drawn up? he s going to go through obstruction as he s gaining these witnesses who don t show up. what is it an abuse of power? what is the actual act of impeachment? i think abuse of power will will likely be a part of that.
congress. i think it will be interesting to watch specifically john bolton. they called the former national security adviser to testify on thursday. he has a lawyer who has advised somebody else that they called to testify basically to wait until the court weighs in on this. don t show up. there are some people who think john bolton might show up. he s writing a book right now. he would be a huge fish for democrats if they can catch him because he had a lot of problems with the president s policy on ukraine, didn t like what rudy giuliani was doing. had a complicated relationship with this president more generally, even though he is a republican in terms of how he cease the world. we saw vindman this last week testify and you saw the headlines that came out of his testimony from the times army officer who heard trump s ukraine call reported concerns, key there the army officer. the washington post white house lawyer moved the transcript to classified server after ukraine adviser rais
professional the questioning is. here. i love it. i m just hoping that we can david, you re the repeat avoid some of the circus tactics customer here so i m going to before the questioning begins. start with you. what s on your fall back list? walk us through that, paul. it s going to be all about i think maybe we could start the circus, because the with having pg&e and the government of california fall president does not have a back. defense. so i think tiffany is right that because you d think california is the fifth largest state, our people will be tuned in, but fifth largest economy in the what is it that the republicans world. and maybe they could learn how need to know, that would shift to generate electricity for everybody and do so without them. we already know that the burning the state down. president tried to shake down and, you know, if you re going to have fires that destroy ukraine using public tax dollars communities every couple of for a political favor. months m
get in two points of order. i m not specificifying whether the president is quote/unquote a sick dude. another the 25th amendment perhaps. but i have checking that he has contradicted himself numerous times on matters large and small on this issue. yes. but number two, jason, when you look at this writ large, it s easy to lose track of the fact that the white house set out a strategy here, and it was to deny evidentiary oxygen to congress. in the people don t comply, if the witnesses don t show up, if they don t turn anything over, then won t congress look potentially to some people like they re reaching to rush to a conclusion in something that is, although it s not a traditional trial, is supposed to deal with evidence and facts? and i would note for your analysis, jason, that is failing before our eyes. the people are speaking. former officials who have a little morley way, but also current officials. and for your review, jason, your thoughts on what i m about to show which
good to see you this weekend again. great to be with you. look, you report that the state department called sondland s attorney at 12:30 in the morning last tuesday, telling sondland, don t show up. and that was just hours before his scheduled deposition. so, the timing of this, what does that suggest, if anything, to you, the fact that this call s made in the middle of the night? well, it just sort of underscores how chaotic it is within the white house bunker in dealing with impeachment. they could have given those instructions to sondland at any point over the last week. it had been known that he was scheduled to testify. the fact that they scramble and at 10:30 a.m. place this phone call to his lawyer shows just how seat of the pants the whole white house operation is. in your article, you also say, democrats consider sondland s testimony concerning documents crucial to their probe, but according to axios, a source familiar with the