Way as part of a white house counsel office s review of that correspondence looking into this matter and it just shows the extent to which mulvaney and others in the administration were part of an effort to create a cover story for the president s decision to withhold that aid. there s so much in that story. i want to read you one more chunk. i got two more areas i want to explore. i want to get into this idea that the cover up appears to be inching as close as the crime in terms of the potential sort of blast radius for this white house and the people in it. let me read some more of this great reporting. you guys report that also included in the review from the white house lawyers our e-mail communications between omb and state department officials and others discussing why the white house was holding up nearly $400 million in military aid and whether the hold might violate the law. december 2018 months before the ukraine issue surfacediority fo
Former clinton officials request a meeting with state department undersecretary. email communications between the firm and state department noted hunter biden is a burisma board member and they wanted to convince the obama administration that it hadn t engaged in corruption and wants to change the view of the company in washington. in march 2016 the former vice president threatened to hold back $1 billion in aid if the ukrainian president doesn t fire the prosecutor accusing him of corruption. biden recounted the conversation years later. i said it was 6 hours, in 6 hours, the prosecutors not fired you are not getting the money. hunter and his father deny any wrongdoing in ukraine but it is a dogfight on the campaign trail. congressman mark walker of north
harris: as the impeachment inquiry marches on, one republican senator is turning the spotlight on the previous administration. wisconsin s ron johnson is requesting access to all email communications between president obama and hillary clinton. he says it s the shed more light on whether the former secretary of state discussed sensitive matters through an unsecured account while she was overseas. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live for us on the story in washington. catherine? thanks, harris, and good afternoon. in this letter to the national archive, ron johnson said if your text messages between peter strzok and fbi director james comey suggest there are emails between hillary clinton and president obama that went through her private, unsecured personal server. the letter reads in part, i write to request email communications between former secretary of state hillary clinton and president obama. the january 2018 i requested the
Decide what gets released. to the extent that it involves email communications with the presidents, it s hard to talk about that because you don t quite know what the access was by the former president of the united states, barack obama. nobody should be suggesting or speculating that he did anything wrong. clearly the person who orchestrated this and who erred and then expose the people she communicated with with breaches of information, is none other than secretary clinton herself. that s what i make of it. we will bit and see what happens and whether anything else is released. it s also fair, i think, to be careful about speculating whether or anybody else did anything wrong. harris: people might ask, why are we talking about are emails again cannot and you were laying out the case that it s always good to know the origin of things. right. be careful about revisiting old territory. we already put this to bed. i get the fact that there is
wow, you just laid out everything that could possibly be wrong and this is all wrong. and you know, i testified to the benghazi committee when i served at state in 2015. and i remember a time when mike pompeo who was on that committee went crazy about the idea of possible email communications that they weren t getting. and these were email communications at the time that were on the state department server. so this is hypocrisy of the highest magnitude, off the books communications, encrypted text messages. this is the tip of the iceberg. there must be so much more underneath. and the danger here is that president trump would rather hide that information and be impeached ra eed rather than ac come clean to the american people. and let s read some of this on the screen. it is actually with bill taylor