this. i think now he s represented by john dowd. so there s, you know, mr. giuliani needing a lawyer himself as congress wants to speak with him. think the concern from the diplomats perspective was giuliani was sort of poisoning trump s mind on this issue. had really gotten into trump s head and was really influencing how he viewed ukraine and that was affecting u.s./ukrainian relations. we see some of that in the text messages about the aid, the diplomat in kiev raising the question of this mixture of politics and aid is obviously not a good thing. there was the diplomats thought for us to do our work, we have to pacify giuliani and trump somehow. and maybe this statement would do that. so, david french, can you just speak to how unusual all
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
ambassador who replied he was incorrect and trump has been crystal clear and no quid pro quo of any kind. after that message they recommended they stop putting their conversations in writing. how s that? let s go quiet here. i was joined by a member of the house intelligence committee, thank you, congresswoman. heidi, an msnbc correspondent, joshu joshua. what is going on with the president of the united states basically saying oh, yeah, okay, i did it? i was trying to extort this guy for dirt on a political rival and i used my power as president to do it? and not just that, then turning around and publicly stating on the south lawn of the white house, hey, chinafurb you re listening we d like your help here too which reminded me so much of that moment in 2016
swing district and the maps get redrawn and maybe that more difficult, i think it s going to be very hard to go out there, 4, 6 years from now and this is the opposition research who defended trump when he was doing the indefensible. the way you do it in politics is you change the question, of course i m guilty, but what side are you on? they did it when trump or ronald reagan lost the first. the issue isn t when he had a lousy debate, sure he had a lousy debate. so you go down to the districts that trump won, has 31 democratic congressional people, who represent now thanks to 2018 trump people. so you go to those people and say the lefties, the liberals, are you with them? that s the game i play i think you re right. i think that s a little bit of what trump has been trying to do when he has these sort of imp promptu moments and he has these sort of explosive outbursts we see in the last 24 hours is to
well, there it is. welcome back to hardball. that was the voice of fred thompson, later u.s. senator, but then republican counsel of the nixon committee questioning alexander butterfield. yesterday president trump claimed the white house possesses a word for word exact transcript of the july 25th phone call conversation that s at the center of the impeachment inquiry right now. not only were many people on the phone, we had stenographers on the phone taking it down word for word. they didn t know that i had a transcript done by very, very talented people, word for word, comma for comma done by people who do it for a living. we had the exact trapt. so where s the exact transcript right now? it s certainly not the one the white house released of that conversation. on the first page of that memo it was released and there s a disclaimer saying not a verbatim transcript, that s what it says