are international or westerners and those that are local. collapse of the president s the locals have been able to defense. and we also have with is state stay and provide necessary attorney for palm beach county, humanitarian care, medicines, medical equipment, blood. dave. and joe, it is hard not to see the humor in some of these words there s a grave shortage of that john kelly put out in the blood transfusions right now. but westerners, they ve all been president s, and the president s withdrawn. reaction, but you re very write the doctors without borders, the about stephanie grisham s save the children, groups that statement. it s a little frightening. would normally have boots on the well ground providing humanitarian that the white house press aid, they have had to withdraw secretary would release a their workers because it is statement about the genius of the president. gravely unsafe. this is what has happened. jonathan wrote a piece back in all right. late july, ear
in fact, i was talking to one of the teams when i came back and i said what was it like? he said you re not going to believe this but it s almost like they built this facility to host this type of event. nothing to see here says acting chief of staff mic mull v mullvainy. in the past, he said it s because they never looked at it before. this was his announcement that donald trump had rewarded his own golf resort and all the business that comes with it last year. the latest of what axios calls the shout it out loud strategy. to make them seem normal. good example last week saying china and ukraine, they should investigate the president. this time, saying, no we ve decided the g7 summit should host this place. jonathan, can you pull back the curtain for a second? inside the white house, what people were thinking. he acknowledged this was the president s idea. the president s been promoting his property for weeks. it s worth noting they say he won t profit by it. but in june of 2017, it
report that to the white house lawyers. what they are doing is not just focusing on those couple of lines that are in the transcript. they are trying to tell you a broader story. this was just not a one-off conversation. this was a coordinated action where career diplomats were side-lined. foreign policy was run through rudy giuliani for simply partisan political purposes. we ve seen a lot of walk-backs and the white house say one thing publicly. they sort of shout out loud sometimes to make it better on ukraine and china. yeah, no, i think they should investigate the bidens. but yesterday felt different even as i was sitting in that briefing room looking around at other reporters we were all making eyes at each other like what are they trying to do here? the thinking was they must be just trying to move the goal post. but then ultimately they said we don t want to do that at all. we are assuming that there is some broad strategy. one important thing that mick mulvaney said was, no
adding one of them called mulvaney s comments an unmitigated disaster. the new york times said the comments sent washington into turmoil. and this from the washington post. quote, one trump adviser calling it totally inexplicable adding he literally said the thing the president and everyone else said did not happen. that gasoline that mick mulvaney poured onto his own west wing s impeachment fire punksating a remarkable week of developments in the inquiry into the president. that is where we start today. joining us here at the table is associated press white house reporter jonathan lemire. kimberly atkins senior correspondent for boston s public news station wbur. plus our difference former u.s. attorney joyce vance is here. what we witnessed yesterday was
experience. these are folks who worked for not just for the president in some cases but for republicans in the past. the process here is really dysfunctional. and i have to just briefly disagree with jonathan s characterization of the mueller investigation as slow. it was remarkably fast for a public corruption investigation. that may have been some of the problem with it was the pace it moved at, it really was in many ways ahead of the evidence. they were so far along that some of these warning signs happened much too late for investigators to pick up on. we are seeing sort of the opposite of that here whereas chris said the primary document is up out front. we actually know what the sin, what the high crime and misdemeanor is. and now we are hearing from witnesses who are career people. these are not folks with a political ax to grind. they are what prosecutors would call fact witnesses. but the process is dysfunctional because instead of investigation like we had in watergate or i