the memcon accurately and completely reflects the substance of the call. i also recall that i did not see anyone from nsc legal office in the room. i had three concerns about a potential leak of the memcon. first how it would play out in washington s polarized environment, second how a leak would affect the bipartisan support of our ukrainian partners currently experienced in congress, and third how it would affect the u.s.-ukrainian relationship. i want to be clear, i was not concerned anything illegal was discussed. lieutenant colonel vindman also discussed his concerns after the president s phone call. the washington post is reporting this dramatic account of colonel vindman s closed door testimony on tuesday. after the call vindman hurried to john eisenberg s door bringing with him his twin brother, an ethics attorney on
a backdrop where it all sort of the washington post has this reporting again about how donald trump views these situations. the mrntrump administration try to divert disaster relief funds to border enforcement, which of course has prompted an outcry. and then you look at the new york times reporting on donald trump seeing this as kind of a time to be loud, but not be accurate. mr. trump awaited landfall by assuming the role of meteorologist in chief, adding weatherman style updates to a usual weekend routine of critiquing the performance of his cable news allies. i suppose the risk is that it all becomes mixed up in one soup and tuned out, rather than people who live in alabama, and this would matter regardless, but happens to be a state that went heavily for trump, people going, wow, i really wish he didn t set off a false alarm here. that s not helpful. well, i would hope the people of alabama and particularly the voters of alabama would take
defense. the opportunity to stay at trump national in doonbeg to accommodate the unique footprint that comes with our security detail and other personnel made it logical. that unique footprint, as we re reporting to you tonight, includes 180 miles of footprint, and that s why this is obviously illogical, even kind of embarrassingly so. pence doesn t have any better arguments, and he s not alone in what he s up to. have you heard about this yet? attorney general barr now plowing $30,000 into a lavish holiday party at donald trump s d.c. hotel? and the career official who actually ran the ethics department during the trump administration earlier last year says all of this is sending signals that barr s loyalty is to trump and not to the country. we turn now to an ethics guru you may recognize, the one and only richard painter, former chief white house ethics attorney under the republican
ethics attorney. first of all, thanks to both you have for joining me on a busy he did the right thing and left. friday night. thank you. great. what does it mean when the doj he deserves to have someone who shares his views. reportedly did advise whittaker the problem is what s his views to step aside and what happens now if he doesn t? and why. there s no logic to pulling the that would be extraordinary troops out and undercutting our that he would not heed the allies and cozying up to our advice of the ethics attorneys. adversaries. what are his views and what to his credit, he sought is the foundation? guidance which you should do the factual, military predicate when the office is set up to give that guidance. for those views? there s a lot of people in the so called resistance. he really disregards that guidance at his own peril. they don t like trump who also are fairly receptive to should he later face judicial responsible ways to drawing down sanctions or bar discipline
battling the flames from the air and on the ground, at 113,000 acres. the camp fire is roughly the same size as san jose, california. 176 square miles. that massive air assault is helping. the fire only grew 2,000 acres overnight and is now 25% contained. a red flag warning has been lifted, but officials say that strong winds are expected to return to this area later today. they say people who have not yet been evacuated, melissa, really do need to be ready to go. because they say extreme fire behavior is still ready to pos. melissa: devastating, claudia. thank you. democratic leaders are ramping up pressure on newly-named acting attorney general, matthew whitaker. to step aside from overseeing robert mueller s investigation. a letter to the doj s chief ethics officer, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, and other top democrats ask if any ethics