now first of all, it s a lot of information coming out. you know, to a certain extent the dam is breaking as the house intelligence committee and others begin to investigate the facts around this. i think what we re going to find is that this gets to the heart of the dysfunction in the overall trump foreign policy and that this is very much a foreign policy scandal of the trump administration. the ukraine call is not an outlier. it s not some crazy exception. it s very consistent with the way the president of the united states has transformed american foreign policy into a personal arm of trump inc. and i think that s been true from the very beginning. you know, that meeting was actually in the spring of 2017 at the very beginning of trump s presidency, the meeting with the russians. and, again, it suggests that from the beginning, his aides and advisers knew that there were things that were, at a minimum, wildly politically inappropriate and that they sought to keep from the america
it was a concerted attack. the president has to defend us from that. when he s not doing it, he s not fulfilling his constitutional obligations. that s the legal significance of it. susan, in terms of how this story is hitting, i don t think the timing is a coincidence, that as we learn about this special classification of the ukraine call and other calls with controversial leaders, it comes out that this too, maybe not in the same way, but this too was kept extra quiet. relevance? absolutely. i think what we re going to see now first of all, it s a lot of information coming out. you know, to a certain extent the dam is breaking as the house intelligence committee and others begin to investigate the facts around this. i think what we re going to find is that this gets to the heart of the dysfunction in the overall trump foreign policy and that this is very much a foreign policy scandal of the trump administration. the ukraine call is not an outlier. it s not some crazy exception.
despicable and i couldn t be more disappointed. we re in the midst of a rolling, i think rolling constitutional crisis. and it s the reality that unlike richard nixon in 1974 when he gave his state of the union, a year into the watergate investigations, this investigation has more breadth. no one claimed richard nixon was a traitor. no one claimed richard was aiding a foreign government. or he was guilty of gross domestic abuses, this is a two-pronged investigation, you ve got all of the obstructionist stuff. and the foreign policy scandal. national security scandal. that s the context in which this speech takes place. we ll have the reporter on from the washington post who devlin barrett on the controversy over the release of the memos. which is one part of this rolling constitutional crisis to build on your term. and elise, add to that, russia
the remains of the mortars and the heavy weapons that were used. there were armed assailants who used heavy weapons. i just don t think that people come to protest, equipped with rpgs and other heavy weapons. president obama was first briefed about the benghazi attack about 90 minutes after it began. what has eamericanned from the missed opportunities to address the ineffective security and the deaths involved and up to and including the shifting accounts put forward by the administration is the dawn of a major foreign policy scandal. and one, doug that, will be investigated and dissected in hearings and official proceedings for years to come. no doubt. thank you. the race for the white house has become a push for key battleground states like wisconsin, which in thees admit is in play.
woods were killed there in an attack that was even better equipped and more sophisticated on the first wave. people on the ground have seen the fragments. the remains of the mortars and the heavy weapons that were used. we have made clear that there were armed assailants who used heavy weapons. i just don t think that people come to protest equipped with rpg s and other heavy weapons. president obama was first briefed about the benghazi attack about 90 minutes after it began. what has emerged since then, however, from the missed opportunities to redress the inadequate security to the deaths involved and the geopolitical ramifications of the event up to and including the shifting accounts of it put forward by the administration is the dawn of a major foreign policy scandal. one, alisyn, dave, and clayton, that will be investigated and dissected in hearings and official proceedings for years to come. back to you guys in new york. will it be an issue now