did you hope zelensky would do about the bidens? well, i would think if they were honest about it they d start a major investigation into the bidens. it s a very simple answer. they should investigate the bidens, because how does a company that s newly formed and all these companies and by the way, likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens. because what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened with ukraine. i haven t, but it s certainly something we can start thinking about. so that right there, trump s call for the chinese to investigate the bidens comes as he is facing impeachment charges for pushing the ukrainians to investigate the bidens while withholding military aid from the ukrainians passed by congress. as that investigation moves ahead, new reporting about the administration is emerging tonight. the new york times says trump s diplomats pushed ukraine
public, unabashed, and it is also an abuse of authority. remember that an impeachment we do not need a crime, even though we have one here, i would argues that actually just using the office to advance your personal interests as opposed to the interests of the country, and ia this case, with china, not just ukraine, with china, not just as australia, that donald trump is saying help me with my personal political problem. help me with my personal political problem. and one thing that we should know, and i just want to note this, the kiev post, which is independent journalism in the ukraine, which as far as i can tell is quite respected source of independent information wrote a piece making clear that the sc nonprofit, nongovernmental anti-corruption community was adamant about getting rid of the prosecutor that donald trump wants to open the investigation
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. to 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 affair. make no mistake. rudy giuliani was placed in charge of ukraine policy and diplomats desperate to get trump to meet with t
behind when he chooses to say something publicly, even if it is outrageous and especially if it is outrageous? well, i think you just see him grasping for whatever he can to get through the conversation he s in. he is standing on the south lawn of the white house. these issues come up related to joe biden. he knows what they ve been saying on fox news about how the next thing that giuliani is going to be going into is biden s ties to china, and he picks up and he runs the same play that he ran during the 2016 election and asks a foreign country for help. this is a thing we ve seen time ch ae me again. i know a lot of people think this moment is very different. i lot of people thought the michael cohen investigation was very different. they thought the end of the mueller investigation was very different. die atio in this instance trump has taken sort of the greatest hits of the first half of the mueller report on collusion and then the second half on obstruction and smacked them toget
in this case, mr. bolton was not. and in addition, the vice president s national security adviser, general kellogg was on the call, not the national security adviser. so that is extremely unusual. and why do you think such a vast array of people were on listening in on a telephone call? because of the content of the call. and we re now learning it just dropped, brian, while i was waiting to go on tv with you, so i was just scrolling through it. we have a lot of information now that was just released about texts between ambassador volker, between our eu ambassador. goodness knows why he is involved in any of this, by the way. and it is not just this phone call. we now know that they were prepping the phone call, and the 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