Facts that could, at a minimum, embarrass the president. The white House Counsels review of documents was triggered by the ongoing house impeachment inquiry. Earlier today house intel chairman adam schiff talked about the importance of linking the president s decision to freeze ukraine aid to his efforts to dig up dirt by the bidens. Yes, the president s chief of staff, the person who meets with the president every day on live camera admitted exactly that, veisavis the most serious and that is the mill aritary aid. What ambassador sondland did say was everyone was in on the loop of the precondition of the meeting that ukraine desperately sought for its recognition that the United States had its back, that everyone was in the loop on this. It was a clear quid pro quo, and with respect to the military aid, in the absence of any other explanation and in light of the president s own record of pressing for these investigations, two plus two equals four. What every judge tells every jury and
Talked about the importance of linking the president s decision to freeze ukrainian aid to his efforts to dig up dirt about the bidens. Yes, the president s own chief of staff, the person who meets with the president every day on live camera admitted exactly that visavis the most serious and that is the military aid. But look, what ambassador sondland did say was everyone was in the loop on the preconditioning of the meeting that ukraine desperately fought for its recognition that the United States had its back, that everyone was in the loop, there was a clear quid pro quo. With respect to the military aid in the absence of any other explanation and in light of the president s own record of pressing for these explanations, two plus two equals four. What every judge tells every jury is you dont leave your common sense at the door. Everyone understood this was merely pressure to get the president s investigations and even more and i thought this was notable about ambassador sondlands tes
Doubted whether she was the right person to lead the house are now singing her praises. Were going to look at how she trump trumped coming up. And psychiatrist warns impeachment is making donald trump worse, but says delaying sending the articles of impeachment is an important step. Were going to talk about that with a long time trump observer in tonights last word, but we want to begin this hour with the one thing that has been dominating Donald Trumps mind other than impeachment, House Speaker nancy pelosi. Now with the uncertainty of his Senate Impeachment trial looming over his holiday vacation, donald trump has spent every day of the last seven days blastic democrats and impeachment in dozens of angry and misleading tweets. This morning for example Speaker Pelosi reminded americans that, quote, the facts are clear and every witness told the same story despite the president s attempts to cover it up. President trump abused his power for his own personal gain. Trump escalated his at
Clients and he denied ever sending giuliani to ukraine on his behalf. The president s efforts to separate himself from giuliani is starting to sound awfully similar to his relationship with another personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Which very quickly went south. Take a listen. Michael cohen is a very talented lawyer. Rudy giuliani is a great lawyer. I always like michael. Rudy is a great gentleman. Well, you have to ask that to rudy. They got cohen totally unrelated to the campaign. Im not involved. Rudy has other clients other than me. Our Kaitlan Collins is in west palm beach. We heard from the president now saying that he doesnt know what giuliani was doing in ukraine, even though we do know he was there for the president. Do we have a sense today of how the white house is reacting to this news that giuliani was look for other deals. Reporter well, alex, they havent said anything publicly but far long time now white house officials have really tried to put some distance between themse
Congressman michael walz agreeing with the president s decision it was completely within the president s right. He looked into this case. My point is the navy has a lot of other things that it should be worried about right now. When you have men and women down range making these decisions in split seconds in the pressure of combat, they cant have lawyers back in washington with a 5,000 mile screwdriver second guessing and monday morning quarterbacking. Bill what a comment that is. Well fill in details. Good morning. Good morning. There are competing narratives coming out about Navy Secretary Richard Spencers dismissal. According to the pentagon he went behind the back to negotiate a deal with the white house promising he would fix the results of the navys review board to insure Eddie Gallagher remained a seal and kept his rank if the white house didnt interfere in the process. President trump rejected that offer telling him no, were done. And then doubled down on his public push for th