said there would be no money and no meeting with the president and potentially no meeting with the vice president unless he started going after joe biden s son and the 2016 conspiracy theory. i mean, every witness says the same thing. david, i mentioned this at the top of the broadcast but i just want to put it back up on the screen. president trump tweeted this weekend, republicans don t be led into the fool s trap saying it is not perfect, it is not impeachable. nothing was done wrong. it doesn t leave congressional republicans many places in search of a cohesive defense. lindsey graham is still now focusing on the whistle-blower which is really largely irrelevant at this point because so many other people confirmed what this person who apparently had no firsthand knowledge said. yeah. no, they re really between a rock and a hard place. they ve got on the one hand a president who s very, very popular with their base and who
and parrot whatever he wants them to parrot? i think some of them may. you have representative lee zelden who will echo whatever he says on twitter. there s a range in the senate and the house of republicans. in addition to what david said, they ve been suggesting that ukraine they got the assistance so what s to see here. nikki haley sort of suggested that as well. that s true. does it mean that a president of the united states should be holding back military assistance in exchange for, you know, an investigation into a political opponent? no. that s what democrats will argue. you can see some semblance of an additional bullet point they can add. they re in an untenable place. if donald trump keeps tweeting and pushing them to argue on his behalf, they re not going to have anywhere to go. can i be the master of the obvious for one second? yes. who calls their own behavior perfect? have you ever met anyone like that? it s like that s how trump talks. that s not normal.
that didn t vote for him. he provides only an example of something that we already knew where he went to deny funding. the way he writes it is if this is a regular occurrence that he sort sort of as one tidbit which is interesting. i wanted more. i wanted more examples. david, we re getting this excerpt at the same time. i don t think it s a coincidence that nikki haley is out promoting her time. former secretary of state, rex tillerson and jeff kelly asked her to, quotes, safe the country. she went to trump and told him about it, but the what she doesn t really address is the
jeopardized. joining me, gat i got ouf. it. david, i mean, first of all, the kwoelg quotes from this person are pretty incredible to hear. this person, though they think as far as we know and did whatev whatever, this person is not doing that. that s true. each person is totally disaffected but for whatever that is odd. is hanging on in there. doesn t want to be identified. what s missing from the book or any incidents of what have happened versus this vast overview of what we ve known.
i mean, it s just i mean, the idea and he lies all the time. well, i it s not even behavior. it s conversation. it s so surreal that we sort of pass that by because that s the way he talks. it s surreal that he s calling the transcripts which republicans were in on and which all these witnesses have read before they were released, that he s calling those doctored and nobody blinks an eye. everyone is like, oh, yeah, no, that s totally normal. it s not normal at all. anderson yes, go ahead please, david. i want to go back to something that jenn said. ambassador hailey made the argument, yes, the money flowed. it seemed like it flowed after the white house got an inkling that there were people who were blowing the whistle on this whole caper. secondly, she said that the