aselling point when the chief of staff came out to make a case for this. the president is claiming that, and la meanting the fact that he had to reverse course on this, he blamed democrats for this, but jake, the president knew that democrats were going to be criticizing him on this, this is something we ve been floating for several months now, and the criticism from democrats was not a surprise. what was a surprise was the extent of the krill scriticism republicans. jaeremy diamond at the white house. the whistle blower, who initially publicly raised conditions about his conversations with the president of ukraine privately then became publicly. the whistle blower has been discredited. of course, he or she has not been discredited. that is not true. the president even nonsensicly suggested today that adam schiff might be an inform an the for