did mick mulvaney? did someone else? who made the call, what day and what exactly were they told? we re piecing together that based on what people are saying but there s not direct knowledge about who made that call initially. this is actually one of the things that house republicans are going to push. we don t know a lot of details exactly what the president did. what was his role? we know a lot of people around him, what they were doing. but we don t know exactly what he did. that s, of course, because we don t have mick mulvaney, acting chief of staff. we don t have john bolton, people in direct conflict with him, testifying, the president s role and exactly how that aid was held up. annie carney, let s say following some of the hijinx in the judiciary committee, the spotlight goes to the intel committee. chairman schiff chose in the
based on what people are saying but there s not direct knowledge about who made that call initially. this is actually one of the things that house republicans are going to push. we don t know a lot of details exactly what the president did. what was his role? we know a lot of people around him, what they were doing. but we don t know exactly what he did. that s, of course, because we don t have mick mulvaney, acting chief of staff. we don t have john bolton, people in direct conflict with him, testifying, the president s role and exactly how that aid was held up. annie carney, let s say following some of the hijinx in the judiciary committee, the spotlight goes to the intel committee. chairman schiff chose in the last televised hearing to give a dramatized version of the president s phone call with ukraine. it gave the president a talking
we re piecing together that based on what people are saying but there s not direct knowledge about who made that call initially. this is actually one of the things that house republicans are going to push. we don t know a lot of details exactly what the president did. what was his role? we know a lot of people around him, what they were doing. but we don t know exactly what he did. that s, of course, because we don t have mick mulvaney, acting chief of staff. we don t have john bolton, people in direct conflict with him, testifying, the president s role and exactly how that aid was held up. annie carney, let s say following some of the hijinx in the judiciary committee, the
nothing to say which was the most professional choice they could make under the circumstances. what s going to be different next week when the cameras are on, when your former republican colleagues take their seats in this hearing? yeah, they re going to be playing to the cameras. and if there is a political strategy in this for republicans, they re playing not to lose the base. they re not going to win anybody over with their political hijinx. they have to keep the base riled up with their conspiracy theories. because they can t go into 2020 with an eroding base. there s the jim jordan, matt gates kind of crazy caucus argument this was all a conspiracy theory. mark meadows makes the case it all stopped at giuliani, never reached the president. ted cruz said the president never had any intent. senator ted cruz and johnson said this is routine, happens all the time.
there s something sneaky going on. put these people in this sort of pro brooks brothers, this remind me of something like a recount, another brooks brothers protest. it s like a bunch of grown men acting like they re into hijinx. what a boring looking group, by the way. your thoughts. it was actually embarrassing. and chris, you know this, if you add the number of republicans from three committees, intel, oversight and reform and foreign affairs you re talking about a large number of republicans. so it is not like they have not been involved, that they haven t had complete access to everything. they just want us to have everything in the openrectomy now so that the witnesses can coordinate their testimony and be bullied by the white house and we re not going to do that. let me go to peter baker on this because you write the main bar of the piece in the times and i want to ask you about