service. because they are so aggressive in that particular part of the world. i can explain it. i m not sure i will. i will say as an fbi guy that worked bribery and corruption and mob cases in chicago intent on bribery is not as easy to get to. this isn t a rules of evidence kind of proceeding. but that intent is hard. one of the things i thought happened this week that showed that the intent might not be there is you had all the meetings that taylor was in and it never came up and he didn t know about the fact of the money. if you are trying to defend this, that would be a logical way to come at it. in the committee hearing. they need the trial to be today. because as soon as you get these witnesses next week, you re going to get a different reckoning. you point something out. it s important for the people at home, did the president have corrupt intent? did he think he was doing something wrong. that could be very important in
and a lot of it is not holding water. this strikes me as water gate in reverse. during water gate we had a year and a half of congressional and fbi investigations. leading to the smoking gun tape. where everybody saw nixon was interfering in the fbi trying to block the investigation into the water gate burglary. this is in reverse because we started with the smoking gun. the transcript itself. showed the president s own words he was asking zelensky to do him a favor of investigating his political rival joe biden. there it was in many ways that s the most serious evidence we have gotten yet of an abuse of power. the question is, as you have been discussing does it add up to grounds for removal of office. and on that ground i think it s a political judgment.
obstructing fbi, misusing the irs and places like that. the big difference being he was abusing his foreign powers authority. which is much different than his president misusing civil powers of domestically or political in the united states. and the article 1 of nixon was obstruction of justice and i want to tell you the mueller report is much more powerful than the evidence collected by the house judiciary committee on obstruction of justice. interesting how quiet the democrats have been with that. do you believe looking at the roster of who s coming up this week, do you believe this is is it? after this week the american people will have the best look available at what mattered here and then comes the discussion of consequence. i think if ambassador sondland was forthcoming and told what really went on, it would be the end of the trump