yes. same true with a governor with holding the budget unless the police agree to conduct an investigation on a political rival. you would a gree? correct. yes, sir. your view is it any different for a member of congress? of course not, right? would you agree the president has the same obligation as the mayor, as the governor and the member of congress? to not with hold aide unless he gets an investigation into a political rival? yes, sir, i i would agree with that. i would agree. i spoke with the congressman before air time. the analogy you made is a really apt and interesting one. and the fact they both agreed with the analogy. i find sort of fascinating and yet morrison continues to claim that when he heard the call, he
purpose of the republicans wanted? they extracted moments from them. they asked did you see evidence of quid pro quo. or bribe. no. did anyone ask you to do that. no. he didn t have the same reaction when he heard the call on the 25th. that vindman did. to the extent they were used to rebut the notions. they did. they had other moments that probably weren t what the republicans were expecting. particularly volker. i was watching this and looking at the reaction it strikes me everybody thinks they won. democrats think they had this go to the basketball game watch the score board and everybody leaves happy. democrats think they won. republicans think they extracted enough moments. this afternoon to rebut the quid pro quo stuff. and i m not sure how much of that will matter by tomorrow. after we hear from really the only person that i think may matter this week. sondland. there was also morrison s argument that he was on the call
the question. if the ma i yor told the police commissioner i ll support you. you have to do an investigation on my political opponent. vindman was quite able and insisting saying that wrong. morrison was hesitant but his actions demonstrate his alarm. he knew it was bad flt he went to the lawyer and was part of putting it in the secure system. so bottom line, what did the president do? and what i was trying to do when i was analogizing to a mayor. is demystify it. it s the president and national security. it s so beyond the every day experience of most of us. it s like we don t we suspend judgment. if our mayor made that deal with the police commissioner. he s gone. it s not even a question. you feel authorized to come to the conclusion that s
democratic presidents, for republican presidents, that they should be able to as president go, you know, seek out dirt on their political opponent, the answer should always be no. if they keep saying that, they ll keep bringing that back up. apparently if polling is correct, 70% of americans believe it s wrong. you know, a lesser number, half, believe it s impeachable. can i bring, up, though there s the poll. we put it up by the way. oh, yeah. can i just mention one of these witnesses who we haven t heard from? we only have an hour and five minutes left. let me mention two, then. but, you know, morrison repeated again today that john bolton went in and talked to the president about why this aid was being frozen to make the case that it should be unfrozen, and all he said was that he came back and said, we still haven t persuaded him. but there s no doubt that bolton pressed him as to what the reason was for this aid being
saved my life. saved my life. what we do here at dana-faber, changes lives everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. in his original closed door testimony, sondland was asked about if he knew about preconditions on aide to ukraine. he said no. since that time he changed his story because of the testimony of the two witnesses. one of those witnesses taylor testified last week. morrison testified in public today. what did ambassador sondland say to tell you that he told mr. yur mac. ukrainians would have to have the prosecutor general make a statement with respect to the