Ukraine, the president has privately called bad news, appearing for a transcribed interview city behind closed doors. Democrats say they hope she can shed new light on President Trump and his Team Communications with ukraine. Watch. What you want to hear from her . First of all, why was she ousted well before her time was due . What was the request, i understand, but she insisted mr. Giuliani make any request of the Ukrainian Government to come to the embassy . Not to be a lone ranger, i would like to know what took place not only in that regard but her conversations at the state department. Harris meanwhile, democrats are issuing new subpoenas and their impeachment inquiry, and also reportedly requesting the appearance of diplomat bill taylor, who questioned why ukraine aid was being withheld. President trump is at his first rally since the impeachment inquiry began last night, taking aim at democrats. They know they cant win the 2020 election, so they are pursuing the insane impeachm
Look at this email. Officially ordering the money to be frozen. It was sent just 91 minutes after trump hung up with zelensky. Fact and contest. Trumps own people sent signals at the same time that they were doing this that the situation was dicey. How do we know . His political appointee mike duffy wrote, quote, i appreciate your keeping that information closely held. Why . Why be so quiet about withholding aid to ukraine . Fact, just days after Congress Found out about the whistleblower, the white house was informed about the whistleblower. Remember the timeline. Even before congress came asking, they knew theres reporting that even the president was aware of the whistleblower. When do they do . When congress comes, they abruptly make the decision to release the money. Why such a quick turn around . Folks at the dod were asking what happened . We dont know what mr. Duffys answer was. But we know he was, quote, glad to have this behind us why would you be glad to have something behind
Yeah. And theyll have to make a decision. Individual officials have to make a decision here how theyre going to deal with the white house inevitably telling them dont show up now that there is all of these examples of officials who did show up and said what they knew. Ambassador mckinley in that transcript released today makes it so clear his own reaction. Thats something im going to cite when i get into my coverage of it. As soon as he got the request he said of course, of course i was going to testify. Right away. Didnt have to think about it. The only question now is the divide between sort of people who have that patriotic response to it, yes, like congressional oversight is a real thing. I will tell you what i know. You can swear me in under oath and i will tell the truth. The divide between them and those saying the white house told me not to. That will get litigated or otherwise worked out. But those people are going to have to live with that for the rest of their lives. And it
Absolute immunity from compelled congressional process simply does not exist. But mcgahn wont be sworn in yet. Hell wait to testify while the case is appealed as the doj just did. May go all the way to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court handed down a temporary win for the white house in another case blocking congress from seeing the president s tax returns for now. But the court is fasttracking the case asking both sides to make their best arguments for why the court should weigh in on the tax return fight in this term. Cnns Kaitlan Collins has been covering this story and joins us now here from new york. So first, on the white house strategy as it relates to this loss or temporary loss on mcgahns testimony. Its a pretty big rebuke to what their strategy had been. Theyd been maintaining since mcgahn, which this is dating back to mueller testimony, is essentially these people do not have to go. They had this absolute immunity. And if you read this 120page ruling you see wha
Might be on the menu. So much to chew on, so little time. First the blake burman at the white house and all the latest tasty morsels. Clyde has a fantastic kids menu, by the way. I learned that a few weeks ago. The mac and cheese, i doubt they had that today. In any event, there were a lot of discussions going to this one as to whether or not they are top negotiator for the chinese, the vicepremier, would cut his trip short or not. That was a question heading into last night and into this morning. Let me give you the timeline of how the day is played out. The video youre looking at, just before 9 00 this morning, a smiling person at the front door. The trade representative Robert Lighthizer and treasury secretary steve mnuchin. Later that hour, President Trump seemed to end the doubts about whether leo would be back for discussions tomorrow as he tweeted big day of negotiations with china. They want to make a deal, but do i . I meet with the vice premier tomorrow at the white house. Th