expense. and at the time what seemed like just a bizarre sideshow american connection to all that was the fact it was actually a high dollar american political consultant who had been paid to be the top political advisor to that wildly corrupt pro-russian ukrainian president. the american political consultant who had been paid to getns this pro-russian guy inton power, who had run his campaigns, who had overseen a personal makeover for the guy, wrote all his speeches, who got the guy installed in power, the american political consultant who did that is a man named palm manafort. paul manafort got paid millions andt millions of dollars to install the pro-russian puppet as ukraine s president. until he oversaw a massacre in the streets of kyiv a and had t flee to russia. after years and years paul
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0 it was actually 108 people in the heavenly hundred. the youngest of them was just 16 years old. it all happened as the combination of protests that had started the previous november. people are protesting in ukraine. because the government of that country had had the chance to sign on to a big trade deal with europe, a deal that was expected to have big economic benefits for ukraine, just episode bring ukraine closer to europe, and closer to the west. people in ukraine bought weird forward to it. this is a popular thing that they re very much wanted. but the president of ukraine at the time he decided he wasn t going to do it and he basically decided that because russia didn t want him to do it in 2014 the president of ukraine and i know this sounds rude to say but he was basically a a puppet of russia, of vladimi russia had paid for his political rise and for his political party. they had worked to install him in power. they totally controlled him. he was theirol guy. that was how
was always going on over there, we were holding up another country for dirt on a political rival here at home. you see those sorts of warnings from people who realize this is not the way our government is supposed to work. diplomacy can be complicated, u.s. policy can be complicated. but it can t be abusing public office for private gain. i thought we all knew it. i guess trump comes from a different world, a smellier world. this comes as the washington post reveals how a low rudy giuliani will go to traffic in disinformation that benefits this president. giuliani recently consulted with trump s convicted campaign manager palm manafort. quote, in pursuit of information he thinks would somehow show ukrainian efforts to support hillary clinton. not only that but giuliani has claimed responsibility for a mistariomi mysterious package of documents, there s one up there in the
thank you very much, good to look at you today unlike yesterday where i had to stop myself from looking at you rebuke to me. more on that as the show progress is. we have that story and if i could squeeze in some guests we will do it. kevin mccarthy will be here live in the 8:00 hour. we will talk about the next series of interviews from bruce or to lisa page all coming from the republican house. what could be next in the public eye? and former house speaker newt gingrich on what he thinks is happening on the republican side is the president is about to get rebuked on his emergency action at the border. he will use his veto but republicans trying to send a message to the republican president, we will discuss that. judge andrew napolitano on the palm manafort sentencing and what was new york doing weighing in on it again when they were not asked or needed? tommy laren will be here, she will tell us what is at stake