brianna? manu, thank you. continue to update going through this 300-plus page report. and a former senior director forecounterterrorism joins us on the national security council. it is interesting to hear manu talk about this, josh. clearly, one of the key parts of what house democrats need to do is say, look, this came right from the president. also pretty much painting a picture of this really sort of wide web of all the president s men backing him up on this. knowing about it and helping him execute it. i think that s critical and explains why this report is as long as it is because this was not one bad phone call, one bad line in the call a looming foreign policy disaster and lots of people in government hoot knew what normal was saw it coming, tried to wave it often and then a cluster of folks who stuck with the president and tried to push ahead anyway. this tells a story so much broader than just one phone call, one slip of the tongue by
that. i m and then he had to leave the party. justin amash, other than that, not one in the house and i m hoping mitt romney leads the charge but i m not optimistic there, either. also troubling, the new republican defense that ukraine interfered in one way or another in the 2016 election. something that american intelligence officials did not find. something that bob mueller did not find. and something that the senate intelligence committee did not find. no indication that happened. voicing that they were oppositional to the president because he was oppositional to ukraine. sorry. make that very clear. exactly. it is one way of trying to defend the president by saying, well, you know, he would just didn t like ukrainian election interference, which, of course, never occurred, and that is beside the point. i think what this report is pointing out here is that, a.,
queen. tell us what you re hearing at this point in time or certainly what the anticipation has been like from white house officials ahead of this? reporter: yeah, brianna. we re waiting to see what the president has to say about the schiff report. they ll have a response i think in due time, but i will tell you the president in addition to throwing his weight around with some of these world leaders today, we saw him getting into a back and forth with emmanuel macr macron, the french president earlier today and weighing in on the impeach thement and talking about house chairman adam schiff in personal terms sitting down with justin trudeau. he said i think he s a maniac. i think adam schiff is a deranged human being and grew up with a con plex reasons that are ob vous he s a sick man and he lie is. the president of the united states talking about the chairman of the house intelligence committee in unbelievably personal terms and
and it says this. it says, but perhaps even more corrosive to our democratic system of governance, the president and his allies are making a comprehensive attack on the very idea of fact and truth. how can a democracy survive without 0 acceptance of a common set of experiences? one of the things this also makes the case for is impeachment. to your point where white house officials or those in trump s corner think, oh, you re attacking democracy with this. saying this is about democracy. they re laying out the case, impeachment isn t a radical idea. impeachment is clearly outlined in the constitution. this is actually something that is part of the, you know, the founding document. i do want to get to manu is on the hill poring through this report. 300 pages, are preface and summary. give us the latest from where you are. reporter: yes. this report essentially loys out
said publicly what others have been denying. although i will point out the president, and it s in this report, on october 3rd, the president was asked what he d hoped zelensky would do following their july 25th phone call and the president said, well, i would think if they were honest about it they d start a major investigation into the bidens. it s a very simple answer. so even though the president is reportedly upset at mulvaney, he said very much the same thing. right. and keeps repeating it and repeating it and repeating it publicly. another thing that the summary of the report says, it says, most of the facts presented in the pages that follow are uncontested. that gets to the heart of what we discussed earlier. that most of the facts that are important to the central issue whether or not the president abused his authority were in the summary of the july 25th phone call that was released, were in