john bolton called it a drug deal. goes on to say ukrainians acquired about the hold on security assistance, then the president s security assistance hold became public. the president s scheme unravelled, what it says. lastly, the president s chief of staff, pamela, confirmed aid was conditioned on investigations. yes. absolutely. they are using the chief of staff s own words at the podium in the white house to make their case about quid pro quo. about what you just laid out, that the president was using his office for personal gain from a foreign power and basically in the second paragraph here of the summary, they make note of, look, the president was being propped up by his own administration officials. going around career officials in his administration and being propped up with the knowledge of his administration, political officials including pompeo, the secretary of state, rick perry and mick mulvaney but they make the case, because this is about
activists, russian anti kremlin people, they used to look up to us and all of this is perfect for putin because it discredits us in the eyes of the people opposed to putin. the book i just did i spoke to international, the activists et cetera who said the same thing, that the world doesn t look up to us anymore with trump there. we re just like everyone else. the last question to you on this, the thing that i m not sure that russia anticipated they would get for their money, and not even a lot of money that they spent to interfere in our election is they got an american political party that used to be the most hard core anti russia anti then soviet party. they got the republican party because we now see the republican party also adopting the pro russian line. well, yeah, joy, this is the most distressing development that i ve taken note of, certainly with regard to the hearings this week. you have republican members of the intelligence committee of all committees actually giving cr
independents. while it shows that more independents oppose the president s removal than support it, the fact that 47% of these independent voters support an impeachment is the kind of thing that s quite chilly and sobering for the gop. for trump to get re-elected he has to win a lot of independent voters, and would almost half of them want him removed from office right now? that s a warning side. it is a warning sign. i m sure many in the white house are taking note of. no doubt, speaker pelosi has been taking note of it as well. talking, by the way, on thursday night on stephen colbert s show. here s a clip. the most important thing for the american people to realize and understand is no one is above the law. [ cheers and applause ] no one. the president of the united states or not. this, to me, has nothing to do with politics s people say you want do to it because jeopardize nothing to do with
but biden s rivals will make the point that he could say something at any given time that could change the narrative and you need someone to prosecute an effective argument against the president. biden did call ohio michigan too. which the trump campaign also made note of. if you ve covered biden for a long time, and i have, he always said stupid things, he s got a history, because he likes to talk. he thinks as he s talking and that s where you get in trouble. for the next months here he s got this very busy schedule in september, so we ll see where this goes. we ll see if some of his support ends up kind of crumbling. we ve seen him steady in the polls so far, annie. well, this gaffe, again, i say depogoes to race. that s what makes it particularly dangerous. it s one thing to be uncle joe and misspeak, but when he s talking about race, that is where a lot of his support comes from is black voters.
trace the president s intent to it partly because many of the communications between the president and dowd that could have established the president s intent that he intended to commit a crime, attorney/client conversations, right? or they couldn t neal said they couldn t prove intent. the fact that you couldn t the fact that you couldn t prove that he intended to obstruct justice doesn t mean it s not an obstructive act. that s one of the things that mueller made a note of in the report, you know, when citing this particular thing. and then also, finally, the last point, i know i m rambling a little bit, they dangle a pardon and, again, the president s pardon power is pretty absolute, but i don t think the framers when granting the president clemency power intended for a president of the united states to be pardoning, floating pardons to people merely to sort of assure their silence or assure their testimony. so there s a lot going on and it just speaks to poor judgment at a mini