a whole administration was working overtime to try to end corruption in ukraine. it was professionals in the state department and an ambassador who requested that we be involved to try to get a prosecutor out of the way who was not able to move. that was an administration policy. it was. biden was implementing u.s. administration policy in the bright light of day, and as for trump saying that prosecutor was investigating the company paying hunter biden. that is false. that investigation was dormant. it was dormant. there was no digging going on, and then there s this part of the president s letter. he writes, worse still, i have been deprived of basic constitutional due process from the beginning of this impeachment scam right up until the present. i have been denied the most fundamental right afforded by the constitution including the right to present evidence, to have my own counsel present, to
issue like this at all in my time up here, ali. it s really extraordinary. it is truly extraordinary. garrett haake for us on capitol hill. moments ago, as i said, president trump sent a remarkable letter to house speaker nancy pelosi about the impeachment debate in the house. the president wrote in his letter, quote, i have been deprived of basic constitutional due process from the beginning of this impeachment scam right up until the present. more due process was afforded to those accused in the salem witch trials. nbc s hans nichols joins us now from the white house. hans, it s an amazing letter. reporter: yeah. what s it for? what s the point of this? because there is a process under way at various times. in this process the president has been formally invited to participate or have his lawyers participate at various times. he s refused other people s participation and his own. reporter: yeah. what s this letter meant to do? reporter: it s unclear. if this were written
not? congress especially democrats are not the tyrants and overlords of congress who can tell the president what he can and can t do. there s a lot of people that want the president on the offensive. i am curious about what the obama administration might have been doing for hillary clinton with the ukraine. i do think they played a role and i want to justify my phone call there. what they look to push everything aside or will they look to prove there s a premise for the conversation and for the skepticism? the president doesn t have to prove anything. what does he want to? i think is been very clear about whether or not he does that in the context of the senate trial or whether he continues to say this to the american people or whether there is a senate judiciary investigation because the republicans actually care about truth and fact and what actually happens. there are multiple ways the truth can come out, it doesn t have to be in the context of the senate trial and the impea
decision will prove devisive as everything else we ve been seeing. thank you for the time this morning. i appreciate it. my thanks to betsy as well. both of them joining us from washington, d.c. he is promising to prove the impeachment scam is nothing more than a smoke screen for president obama s corruption. so what is rudy giuliani up to and how kit play ocan it play o? ca? we would walk on the sidewalk all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun we needed somebody to lean on all we need is someone to lean on
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