Later, David Mcintosh joins us to discuss his organizations strategy for campaign 2020. Trump during the impeachment inquiry. Host what was last year an anonymous New York Times oped by a purported white house senior staffer is now a fullfledged book just published, the author citing further concern, alarm, and consternation about President Trumps term in office saying he deserves to be fired. We start with excerpts from the Washington Post article and what they are publishing today. Democrats, use 2027488000. Epublicans, it is 2027488001 and independents, 2027488002. You can send us a text, make sure you put your name and where you are texting from. That is 2027488003. On twitter, we are cspanwj. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. The article in the Washington Post, washingtonpost. Com where you can read it for yourself. The headline book by anonymous, describes trump as cruel, inapt, and a danger to the nation. Trump Administration Officials masseered resigning en last year, but rejec
The september time frame, but i want to go back two months, to july, before the july 25th call. You testified, ambassador taylor, in your Opening Statement that it was in the middle of july when you understood that the white house meeting was first a condition on these investigations. Is that accurate . Yes. We were preparing and i agreed that the white house meeting was going to be an important step in u. S. ukrainian relations. So, in june and in early july, attempts to work out a way to get that meeting included a phone call. And so there were several conversations about how to have this phone call that eventually happened on july 25th. And you described in your Opening Statement a july 10th white house meeting with a number of officials where ambassador bolton used the term that something was a drug deal. What did you understand him to mean in hearing that he said used this term, drug deal . I dont know. I dont know what ambassador bolton had in mind. Was that in reference to a dis
Youre the you are the 2 of the key officials with responsibility for ukrainian policy. I mean if the president of states is going to have a call with the leader of ukraine why what why wouldnt you ordinarily be involved with preparation sir we work for the department of state in an embassy overseas and in preparation for a president ial phone call that responsibility lies with and staff of the National Security council normally if there is enough sufficient time National Security staff can solicit information usually from the state department we can draw in the embassy but thats only Background Information and my understanding having never worked at the National Security council is that National Security staff write a memo to the president and none of us see that outside of the National Security staff ok so the the the charge a or the the u. S. Ambassador to the country wouldnt ordinarily be on a call with a foreign leader. Thats correct would not. And did colonel the men or anyone of
Media are wall to wall with trump impeachment but what is the state of affairs there also in this half hour cyber singles q where as the federal trade commission accuses the Biggest Online meet up sites of scamming the love lorn what sign are you im hala cook in washington sagittarius this is the big picture on r. T. America. Coverage of ukraine what trump and biden accuse each other of is noisy but 1st things 1st the government there wants us to know its ukraine its not the ukraine the ukrainian and. See here in washington ask us to avoid soviet style cliches and the semantics are not trivial in russian and ukrainian means borderlands but ukraine has been an independent nation since 1991 how independent lets ask journalist and Consortium News editor in chief joe lauria joe ukraines new president asks our president for javelin missiles to defend against russia but you have recently characterized the routine way the u. S. Government conducts Foreign Policy as with bribes threats and bla
After the usmca event in iowa, Vice President pence took questions on ukraine, the bidens, and the president S Communications with ukraines president. President zelensky said there was no pressure. His words were no one pushed. A clear reading of the transcript shows there was no quid pro quo in the president s call. The American People should read the transcript. And they do well to do that. The chairman of the Intelligence Committee manufactured a version of the transcript and read it into the record. We also see the chairman of the committee misrepresented his context with the whistleblower and repeated interviews. The American People need to look no further than the plain reading of the transcript. There was no pressure, no quid pro quo, our focus was entirely on the president s desire to see europe contribute more to Ukraine Security and sovereignty and to see president zelensky make good on his own election commitment to pass significant corruption reforms in ukraine. We have bee