they were already talking about the pressure they felt from president trump and rudy giuliani to launch investigations into former vice president joe biden. and word of the aid freeze had gotten to high level ukranian officials by the first week of august. joining us now, a congressman from massachusetts, seth molten. congressman, thank you for being here. it s good to be here. the ukranian president felt pressure to open an investigation even before he was i naug ra inaugerated. that s the way trump is. it s the way he operated from the very beginning. it s why he asked for foreign help very publicly during his campaign. it s why he s asking for help now from china in addition to
sondland is going to say thursday i m not sure if it s a quid pro quo, can i tell you what the president told me to tweet out or text forward. this could be problematic. in the big picture, if you want to know where to go from here, look at what the president said. nobody noe one is talking about what the president of ukraine said. in an 12-hour interview he said 30 different ways i never felt pressured by the president. in fact, when i was on the phone, i did not even know that the money was being delayed. now we got it. i have no problem. nobody wants to report that the guy ukraine, not at the u.n., in the ukraine said i haven t felt pressure. steve: he said there was no blackmail. there was no quid pro quo. which is what the president said. we saw the tape. transcript. one really there. ainsley: want to talk to lindsey graham about that and find out if the republican senators are going to get involved here. they don t feel like impeachable offense. don t feel like quid pro quo. are
joe biden and his son played into that conversation. it was largely about the fact that we don t want our people like vice president biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the ukraine. reporter: the firestorm is whether the president crossed a line by engaging a foreign leader s help to investigate a political rival and whether pending u.s. military aid for ukraine was a factor. there was no quit pro quo. reporter: i asked the president to explain why the ukraine aid was delayed. i didn t delay anything. we paid the military aid to the best of my knowledge. after the complaint was filed, sir? listen to me, i gave so much more to ukraine than obama did. but couldn t that leader have felt pressure, sir? couldn t he have felt pressure? the president appeared irritated by three hours later at a stop in houston, he readily responded. that was not pressure. i know when i give pressure. reporter: democrats in congress denied access to the secret whistleb
weather spokesperson said the guidance was to maintain operational focus on dorian and other severe weather hazards without distraction. a known meteorologist said this is the first time i have felt pressure from above to not say what truly is the forecast. chris, i see you nodding here. something is treated sack saint, to provide data we all use and need has been jeopardized by this weird politics. let s take a step back. this is not politicization of weather. it follows a pattern that goes to intelligence reports, law enforcement efforts that happened under this administration to simply serve the president s partisan interests. if you take a step back, noaa has this incredibly powerful function to not only help cob serve our oceans, fisheries but provides what we need for climate change. i had the chance with the two
encumber? i don t think so. i think the district has looked at this before they brought the indictment. they have dug deep on this issue and it will be at the dead-end for the defense and only point, are they afraid? i doubt any prosecutor in the district is afraid of anyone. dana: do you think alex acosta come his attorney, where they afraid? that is what they were referring to. i don t know if afraid is the right word. they might have felt pressure to look at it more closely and give an opportunity to someone they knew. dana: last question. let s say you are named as one of these people that was friendly with him. do you sit tight or do you do something proactive to distance yourself? i think you sit tight because we don t know which way the ball is going to bounce. one of the things we see in cases like this as you will start to see two types of