but when bernie sanders was returning against hillary clinton, ehe said the same thin. and then after better knrnie sa won and hillary clinton s lead started evan rating, reid made a phone call to the culinary union which is the most powerful force here in democratic politics, and did put his thumb on the scale behind the scenes and that helped clinton hold on. and that could have been a serious problem for her if bernie sanders had won gathering the momentum. so what made the most inroads with the culinary union? there the h. is the old school i m going to guess sanders has inroads there. so will they be split? another good question. and i think that it is hard to tell. the culinary also likes to play
seem to do the president any good. but the president himself was for it. he encouraged giuliani to go. he s asked for a readout. he has told rudy to brief the department of justice and senate republicans, although both of those venues suggested they re not necessarily willing to hear from him. but it goes to show his presence that even with the president facing impeachment, he s not shying away from the conspiracy theories and unfounded charges connected to ukraine that got him in this mess to darwin with. annie karni, you wrote that the president may not debate come general election season because of the problems he has. this is your shared byline with maggie. the problem he has with the commission on debates. what s his problem with the commission on debates? he thinks it s biased. he doesn t trust who they choose at moderator. ehe had troebl with the
also reiterates, that he believes the democrats are unpatriotic. covered pompeo. he was asked whether or not pompeo would run for senator in kansas and he says if in fact the seat is up for grabs he will sit down and have a serious conversation with his secretary of state. and talked about turkey and france. a whole list of them. over a dozen topics. whether or not he will get involved in the brexit discussions. any involvement. he says he wants to stay out of u.k. politics for now. but he did take a moment to mention that he did predict it would be a yes vote as far as brexit is concerned but besides that, not much to comment while ehe s here and we will see if he sticks to that. and we will see what happens there. . we want to brins in hans nichols, standing by patiently throughout the last 52 minutes or so, as we listened to the president and jens staltenberg, mostly the president though i think we can all agree on and he
while the last two weeks of extraordinary historic testimony has brought new facts to light and really bolstered the fact-based narrative surrounding what trump and his allies are trying to do with regards to ukraine. you know, whatever trump says is what his followers are believing as of now. there seems to be no indication that those supporters of ehe re congressmen are changing their minds about the president s culpability here, his abuse of office. and so the president s strategy is for just continue to spin his own reality, his own narrative. and assume people are going to follow suit. are they going to anybody in the senate right now to make sure that they stay in line? are they trying to talk to senator collins? i know i think senator romney was at the white house the other day. is there any work to keep those potentially not as loyal, if you want to put it that way senators, in a loyal place? yeah, katy, there are a
the unedtate o donnell: and margaret joins us now. margaret, i want wee learni about some testimony that was behind closed doors today about david holmes deposition. what have we learned? reporter: yes, this is the american diplomat who was in ukraine and had firsthand knowledge. he overheard a phone call between the u.s. ambassador to the e.u., and president trump. it happened on july 26 at a restaurant in ukraine. immediately after the ambassador had met with ukrainian officials, and i m looking now at notes here from a copy of holmes testimony which was obtained by cbs news. and according to what he said ehe president was speaking so loudly sondland had to hold the phone away from him o donnell: the president was talking so loud? reporter: the president was so loud. and so that s how holmes heard the details of this conversation. he heard the president ask,