Discussing today which involved an irregular channel which is her request that went against u. S. Policy that would undermine the rule of law and our longstanding policy goals in ukraine as in other countries in the postsoviet space. Policies that were indeed championed by ambassador yovanovitch. You also testified in the deposition about fundamental reforms necessary for ukraine to fight corruption and to transform the country and you cited the importance of reforming certain institutions, notably security service. Was investigating President Trumps political opponents a part of those necessary reforms . Was it on that list of yours and was it on any list . No, they werent. In fact, historically is it not true than a major problem in the ukraine is bennetts misuse
of prosecutors, precisely to conduct an investigation of political opponents. Thats a legacy i dare suggest from the soviet era which as you said in your testimony prosecutors like the kgb were and i quote you now instrument
does not somehow at least identified as part of this molecule when we know for sure his son obviously assigned his brother is, is laughable. it s ludicrous to think the president would not and so might be identified as part of this. it doesn t mean he s guilty of anything, it means he needs to be a reference by the fact that the media has ignored this be the fact that the democratic party refuses to address this, is quite unconscionable it also begs the question that is as the justice department continues its investigation, which all signs point to potentially an indictment coming quite soon, it begs the question whether there is a conflict of interest between them and exactly who they are investigating. mark my words, president biden will be named in those documents. it s fascinating. harris, you know it s interesting you re reminding us now, emily, it isn t always the person that they are looking at who gets the shine from the grand jury. it s all those other people they are goin
his true objectives and nobody else. i don t think putin himself has decided what he wants to do. he s amassing the capabilities for a major invasion. much bigger than last spring. it doesn t mean he s decided to do so. with respect to the idea of a security guarantee, and no more nato expansion, i want to underscore two facts. number one, nobody in brussels at washington or kooef is talking about ukraine joining nato. this is completely fabricated by putin. it is not a crisis. he s the one that is making this a crisis. it s not an agenda item at all. and number two, i want to remind your viewers, you know, the united states and russia and ukraine and other countries adhere to many, many security agreements about ukrainian sovereignty, including the most famous one, the 1994 budapest memorandum, where russia agreed
undermine government functions. that statute makes sense to me. i used it myself as a prosecutor. it makes sense to me that people may have violated that statute. even if john eastman doesn t think he did it, there may be others who have evidence that he did. i think he has a valid fifth amendment assertion. it doesn t mean he s going to be charged. it doesn t mean he s going to be prosecuted. it doesn t mean he s going to be convicted. but it strikes me that he has a valid fifth amendment privilege selectively, as jackie said, on a question by question basis. these people did some really bad things. whether it rises to the level of criminal culpability, we will see. when you start hearing witnesses invoke their fifth amendment right against self-incrimination, the stakes have gotten higher. steve schmidt, do you know who had no doubt about john
splintered. i m not going to take issue with anyone who supports the president, but i would suggest reading a little history. it does govern how these members are acting. especially heading into an election where he is the head of your party. and you see what he does to people who criticizes him. if you re a republican right now based on every piece of data that you see, the safest place, no matter what you think, whether you think rudy giuliani should have done this, whether the president is wrong, the safest place is to stay right there. and we ve seen people like ted tillis, they re trying to walk this very tight rope in terms of being somewhat critical but not too critical of the president, and we ll continue to see that, i m sure, in the coming weeks. we re also seeing it from republicans who are hiring, someone like a will hurd, even though he s stepping away. it doesn t mean he s done with