spread too far between aiding ukraine and punishing russia. joining me is jeff bennett, also an msnbc political analyst and also maria theresa kumar, also an msnbc contributor and republican strategist rick tyler, also an msnbc political analyst. we had mitch mcconnell asking schumer to double the funding aid in the package and they did it. there s certainly a blurring of the lines here. i take it from the view of the white house, where they say that president biden has been steadfast in sort of sticking to the organizing principle for the administration, which is to do something that is not perceived to be in the best interests of the nato alliance and of the u.s. when it comes to, for instance, transferring those pole mig
funding aid that the united states $400 million worth of aid that was flowing to ukraine. he stops that. and his office that stops that just a week or so before that fateful call between trump and the leader of ukraine. frank figliuzzi, this feels like a really important development that greg and his colleagues have un-earthed and reported on just this week. and this seems like this is a gut, i don t have any reporting to point that this is an orchestrated effort, but it feels like there is now a ripening of what could be an effort to throw mulvaney under the bus on the military aid. to say, oh, the president had no idea that the aid was help, mulvaney did it. well, first, if we re using the organized crime family model, it s now looking like mulvaney would be someone we call a captain or a crew chief. he is running a crew. and, nicole, i almost hope that