the president s that is of primary importance. let me read you a statement from senator ron johnson who wrote this letter to the republicans on your committee. he said vindman s testimony together wiother witnesses use similar terms of our policy, long standing policy, lend further credence to the point that i m making. whether you agree with president trump or not, it should be acknowledged that the constitution vests the power of conducting foreign policy with the duly elected president. republicans saying that vindman had a problem with the policy but that shouldn t matter. and of all the bologna i ve seen floated by the republicans, of all the shabby defenses they have mounted. that may take the cake. of course it is his foreign policy, but it is not his prerogative to extort a vulnerable leader. nobody disagrees that the policy
around ukraine is to try to root out corruption. and if you don t have your head so far into donald trump s imaginary world, asking a foreign leader to investigate your political opponent is the opposite of encouraging a country away from corruption. so there are two things problematic with senator johnson s letter. number one, it is absurd on the face of it for the reason that i just explained. number two, and this is where you can see the emotion sort of welling up here, the republicans and senator johnson are about sliming colonel vindman. if you read elsewhere, he says that it is responsible that colonel vindman never really liked or never supported the president. that is the sliming of a patriot. and you will see that today. and it will be profoundly hurtful to this country. it will make it hard for me to sort of continue to be as judicious as i m supposed to be given the circumstances. because just as making the
development assistance. that there is a huge amount of investment that flows in. what we re talking about is giving the people, especially the younger people, an opportunity to fully realize their potential. bret: mr. ambassador, less than, why not take president trump s offer to be a mediator between india and pakistan over kashmir cluster mark president trump has madt very clear to offer media is since it he has accepted the offer president trump has made it clear that this is not on the table anymore. that s been the united states long-standing policy. united nations was also very clear, he said this issue will be resolved bilaterally by pakistan and india. so, this is not an issue that is to be settled with third parties. i think that is something that president trump clarified. bret: i think the world is hoping that you both can work
know, rosenstein started his tenure coming out of the box with basically being exploited by the president to write that memo about comey. and his stock basically fell 50% all over d.c. people thought he had been really used. and it seemed since then he had hunkered down and tried to focus on his job. he was last week saying here i stand, i can do no more. he was ready to be fired. and then what ron says is exactly right, troubling and puzzling, sort of boom, boom, you re not a target, which can t mean any more than what was said to the lawyers before, and then the release of these memos after this barrage of pressure. his personal decision and the poorest of reasons to deviat from long-standing policy.
he was last week saying here i stand, i can do no more. he was ready to be fired. and then what ron says is exactly right, troubling and puzzling, sort of boom, boom, you re not a target, which can t mean any more than what was said to the lawyers before, and then the release of these memos after this barrage of pressure. his personal decision and the poorest of reasons to deviate from long-standing policy. i think stormy daniels can tell him, don t ever get in bed with president trump and he s somehow done it just in the last week and i don t think it will lead to any good for him. harry litman gets the last word in this segment. thank you for joining the discussion. we re going to come back with more discussion. and some of my extraordinary discussion earlier today with a trump lawyer, a long-time trump lawyer, who told me that he