talking more bluntly about it. he goes on to say, then the president wants to make sure that vladimir putin wouldn t be able to inflict hardship on the people of ukraine, which is rich to say, considering, is it not, that you suspended crucial military aid to ukraine in the midst of a war with russia, to get this investigation on your political opponent. i mean, look, this is what mick mulvaney himself in that press conference made a similar argument, which is that things like this happen all the time in diplomacy. it s ugly, it is not the idealized version that you might see on the west wing, but these things actually happen. that s the argument of the white house right now. it doesn t seem to be flying and there s a disconnect between that argument and why there s an impeachment inquiry anyway. because it does seem like ran m ransom. to both of your points, listen to this from mac
differences between tom cole, candace miller, mac thornburry, martha blackburn, patrick mchenry, jack miller, darryl issa, jim gordon, jason chaffetz, daniel webster, kathy rogers, tom price, and, oh, yeah, paul ryan. that last one, i know that one. paul ryan. but as that pile of 20, right? as that wild, giant scrum in the republican party takes shape, the second wild, giant scrum in the republican party this year, as that is bestowed upon us, there is this other thing going on right new in today s news that is also about how the parties are doing in general with and this looming question of who s going to be the next president and how those two things speak to each other. i have to say, this other story, it cuts totally across the currents of the speaker of the house catastrophe that house
and maybe they ll pick newt gingrich and we ll have to blow up our chart. but newt gingrich is not a member of congress right now. all of these other people are. all 20 of them are being discussed as potential choices for speaker. big john stanton from buzz feed news will be here in just a moment to tell us the latest reporting on the 20. who they re going to pick and how they re going to do it, more importantly. but the sheer number of people who are considered to be in the running is amazing. we re all just barely over learning to squint and tell the difference between george pataki and john kasich from a distance, right? but now for this contest at the top of the republican party, this other top position in the republican party, this other top political plum, get ready to memorize and tell the salient differences between tom cole, candace miller, mac thornburry, john kind, martha blackburn, patrick mchenry, jack miller, darryl issa, jim gordon, jason