fame and. she asked them for support. they decided no. maybe because they thought the president would jump all over they will. so what? it s the issue with her wanted to and were inclined to get her out of the way unless she was willing to play ball and acquiesce in this sort of irregular channel and the goals of the irregular channel or have her they were trying to achieve these other directors and they were going to either do it by forcing the career feel go along and compromise their values quite frankly or they were going to do it through the ul. and as you were saying earlier, i simply don t know how secretary pompeo is not dragged in. if he doesn t come in to talk to the impeachment inquiry, then the senate and house foreign relations committees, how were you. rick: you guys don t know jim as well as i do.
her they were trying to achieve these other directors and this erp going to either do it by forcing the career feel go along and compromise their values quite frankly or they were going to do it through the ul and as you were saying earlier, i simply don t know how secretary pompeo is not dragged in. if he doesn t come in to talk to the impeachment inquiry, then the senate and house foreign relations committees, how were y you. rick: you guys don t know jim as well as i do. legal expertise of but they dope want any more litigation. that s why they re not subpoenaing people anymore. they re going to wait for the
kylie, fascinating. thank you for sharing. now jim, julie and ka tretrina back with us with that picture. what we re learning when she describes the communication, who was talking to whom and how the people were learning about what the plan was when it came to ukraine. fiona hill the center of trying to execute on u.s. policy there in ukraine. jim, how do you react to what you hear? first on hill, anybody who covers russia, hill knows russia, two, is as tough as can be, and three, oftentimes when i or others press the administration being soft on russia, they would point to the direction of fiona hill as a sign of you have someone on the inside who is tough on russia. her whole role here, she has enormous credibility on this, and listen to what she said regarding that call. she said trump pushing zelensky for investigations regarding the
and it sounds as though the new press secretary who s just on the job you know for a week or so, got into it a bit with the north koreans in trying to hustle members of the white house press pool in for this meeting. it s a reminder of the north, there s no press freedom there. this is, this is a brutal regime. kim jong un is at the top of a brutal regime with a long history of much worse. but that is quite a moment hear to see the white house press secretary physically bruised. now jim, the president has in the past talked about his desire or at least his openness to welcoming the north korean leader to the white house. it appears now he has delivered that invitation personally to the north korean president.
strained between the north koreans and south koreans. but we know president moon has been working tirelessly to try to get these talks back on track. when he came into office. moon was a liberal, wants peace on the korean peninsula. that was one of his major platforms when he became president of south korea, and to date, he has certainly helped orchestrate it, but he hasn t necessarily been pivotal. that has been president trump, in making those meetings with kim jong un happen. and we saw after the hanoi summit in february that the north koreans really soured on the south korean officials. they were upset with the fact that the americans got up and walked away because they decided that the north koreans were inflexible. that they hadn t progressed enough in this denuclearization process. i think south korea s expectations and america s