quid pro quo is clear as day in these texts. the quid pro quo is not only do you need to open an investigation, mr. zelensky, but you need to put it on the record that you are going to do this investigation. oh, and you need to also put it on the record that you are going to expose what ukraine did in interfering in the 2016 elections. extraordinary stuff that just dropped a few minutes ago. but it shows that it s a much bigger story. it wasn t just an off-the-cuff remark that the president, as he sometimes does, as you and i know, this was all calculated. and then the next day, we have a delegation there, mr. volker himself is in ukraine to try to follow up on what the president said in that call turkey, your point just then and there, our mutual friend susan glasser writes for the new yorker. says something along the lines of what you just said. reading tonight s late-night info dump from the ukraine
anti-corruption community was adamant about getting rid of the prosecutor, that donald trump wants to open the investigation on because not just joe biden, but other countries in europe and abroad were insisting be essentially gotten rid of. so we have a constitutional crisis if we do not have a senate as well as a house that is willing to take this up as the constitution tells us it must. robert costa, let me throw you an audible in the interests of transparency. since we ve been on the air, i ve been handed this, what, 30-page pact of information including but not limited to text messages from the entire u.s. team over in ukraine. rather than me reading cold names i haven t seen and information i don t yet know, i know you ve had a few minutes to look through them. what kind of material have the
numbers show the republican party is firmly under donald trump s control. they re behind him. that s why it takes courage and grit to stand up. let s get to the other major news we re following today, these new documents released in new york by the fbi and the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. these warrants involving the michael cohen investigation. he s serving a three-year prison sentence. what does it tell you about president trump s role, his involvement in these hush money payments? donald trump lied to the american people. he not only knew about those payments, he directed michael cohen to do them. in fact there is abundant evidence to convict donald trump of many of the same crimes that michael cohen is serving years in prison for committing. and he would be in fact in handcuffs and a criminal defendant but for his being a sitting president of the united states and there being a justice department policy that a sitting
some of the ugliest attacks he and his supporters have made thus far. also new revelations from the michael cohen investigation and tonight on the beat for the first time ever, i will interview, grill and cross-examine the man in charge of customs and border protection for the trump administration. i promise to make sure it s factual even if that requires live fact check. we begin with this disturbing scene at trump s rally in north carolina. the preds who began wnl birtherism encouraging a crowd s blatant attack on a sitting member of congress who is a u.s. citizen although it s awful either way chanting to send back congresswoman ilhan omar who did come to the u.s. originally as a refugee when she was a child. representative ilhan omar, she looks down with contempt on the hard working americans saying that ignorance is
progress. they believe there is an internal irs memo that said you have to release the president s taxes unless he does executive privilege. they won one court case and that will be appealed but her case is let this play out and her argument back is, see, if gets under his skin. keep going. can she hold that with the democratic caucus? it is an interesting question. right now she has control over the congress but not that there is not rumbling. and what set him off. and this is the letter, and infrastructure was dead before the meeting. mick mulvaney convinced the president to retreat and not do 2 pr$2 trillion and so there is something else at play here. look at his twitter feed this morning and yesterday. think back during key moments of the michael cohen investigation or the mueller investigation or other things where the president would be sort of off on the ledge tweeting a tweetstorm for a day or two and we couldn t figure out what it was and something would happen in the investi