it s incredibly controversial, it s been this owned by its author seemingly. what is your understanding of its status, and his relationship to it? i think it was the driving political and legislative and constitutional strategy of the political coup on january the 6th. if you look at eastman s interview with steve bannon, on the sixth, clearly steve bannon had bought into it. and it was the organizing principle of what they were doing. the whole point was to inflate the vice presidents role of the size of a goodyear blimp, unsafe for the first time in american history, the vice president could himself repudiate and reject electoral college votes, from arizona, georgia and pa, denying biden the majority, and kicking the whole thing into the house for a contingent election, where we know, the state by state voting would have favor trump. and so, politically, it was a great strategy for them,
election, burisma and the bidens. both colonel vindman and ms. williams were on the july 25th call. vindman testified that due to the unequal bargaining position of the two leaders, and ukraine s dependency on the u.s., the favor trump asked of zelensky was really a demand. after the call, multiple individuals including vindman were concerned enough to report it to the national security council s top lawyer. it was the second time in two weeks that vindman had raised concerns with nsc lawyers. for her part, williams also believed that asking zelensky if undertake these political investigations was inappropriate and that it might explain something else that she had become aware of, the otherwise hold on military assistance to ukraine. both colonel vindman and ms. williams also took note of the explicit use of the word burisma by zelensky, a fact left out of the record of the call.
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between g democrats, revenge and resist style politics, or the president s results. unfortunately for pelosi and schiff, you can t impeach her own constituents, and that s the angle. he would respond as ken starr, former whitewater independent counsel. sol wisenberg. as i mentioned, the favor trump asked for was help investigating the 2016 election but hosts at cnn and msnbc chose today and the democrats did as well, chose today to lie about what that paper pertained. watch. trump then asked for a favor. i would like you to do us a favor, he says. the ukrainian president get his government to investigate joe biden. he said will you do me a favor and investigate vice president biden s son? will you do me a favor and get involved in the 2020 election?
and resist-style politics or the president s results. unfortunately for pelosi and schiff, you can t impeach your own constituents. and that s the angle. uehere to respond is ken starr former whitewater independent counsel. and sol wisenberg,former white y independent counsel. as i mentioned, the favor trump asked for was help investigating the 2016 election, but hosts at cnn and msnbc chose today and the democrats did, as well, chose today to lie about what that favor pertained. watch. trump then asked for a favor. i would like you to do us a favor, he says. that the ukrainian president get his government to investigate joe biden. he said, will you do me a favor and investigate vice president biden s son?u will you do me a favor and get involved in the 2020 election? vice president biden is my chief