here. doing this for political reasons tomorrow those impeachment to try to affect political outcomes in the united states is presidency itself. hearings against president trump will not start with the campaign wrong under u.s. law. office manager. but they are going to start with two witnesses. it s also wrong and hurtful to the name of the investigation is the current top diplomat for the u.s. government in ukraine. this key ally of ours who at this moment is fighting a war watergate because that is the name of the building where the democratic party offices were you may remember he was sent to with russia, and we re undermining them in that war ukraine on short notice after with everything we are doing here. america s previous ambassador to that country got recalled from her post, which is apparently i mean, these are the two guys part of the scheme for which who maybe more than anybody get president trump is now being impeached. that. located, offices that were broken into last yea
there was, and they can t seem to figure out how to defend the president. now we re seeing in this republican memo that has come out today that the argument is about the president s state of mind. can you prove that he had culpability? can you prove that in his mind he wanted to commit wrongdoing? but they re not on trial. this is a political process. right, this is a political process. all they have to do this is where they re missing their opportunity to be trumpy. this is not a criminal proceeding. you do not have to, beyond a reasonable doubt, prove criminal intent. they were not hemmed in by the things that restrained them in the mueller probe, and they re doing worse. let s just go through who is in each corner here. mick mulvaney is the white house chief of staff, so i think technically on an org chart probably the most powerful person, but they never made him such. he is an acting and i think he has a couple other jobs.
one. not only in the org chart, but also in allegedly overseeing the ukraine bribery plot, including his famous televised confession. he also mentioned to me in past the corruption related to the dnc server? absolutely. no question about that. let s be clear. what you just described is a quid pro quo. we do that all the time with foreign policy. that s it. that s why we held up the money. that s it, so emphatic. but that was not it, as we reported in a breakdown on the beat. mulvaney s press conference made him appear among the witnesses stating there was bribery, there is. only to move back as he tried to retract his own televised confession. so mulvaney has done a lot to make himself an even more sought after witness and to impeach his only credibility, so to speak. and whatever anyone thinks of mulvaney, and he does look a little guilty, in fairness, his situation does face a situation
with them about the official who was arrested, her deputy, who was also arrested on different bribery charges, on byard s role as the person at fema headquarters who had a coordinating relationship with her, the only person on the org chart who was connected from fema headquarters directly to her office. we ve been talking to them about that for a couple of days now. and a lot today. and i just want to tell you in the interest of full transparency, they called us literally five minutes before showtime tonight to tell us that actually, jeff byard had withdrawn his nomination last thursday. they didn t mention his we re asking about byard for days. they didn t say anything about his nomination being withdrawn. five minutes before showtime today, they say, oh, yeah, he s been gone for a week. make of that what you will. the letter they gave us tonight is dated last week. it is dated september 12th. tonight, axios reports that
fema headquarters who had a coordinating relationship with her, the only person on the org chart connected directly to her office. we ve been talking about that for a couple days now and a lot today. i just want to tell you they called us literally five minutes before show time tonight to tell us that actually jeff byard had withdrawn his nomination last thursday. they didn t mention his we re asking about byard for days. they didn t say anything about his nomination being withdrawn. five minutes before show time today they said, oh, yeah he s been gone for a week. make of that what you will. the letter they gave us tonight is dated last week. it is dated september 12. tonight axios reports although jeff byard s nomination was not formally withdrawn president trump had a new guy in mind already.