He then added this. Based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the democrats. They definitely dont want trump. They didnt dont want trump, he said. Even though last week russias president admitted he did favor mr. Trump, at least in the last election, which is what Intelligence Agencies had been saying for a long time, but putin finallied a mid it. President putin, did you want President Trump to win the election . And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that . Translator yes, i did, because he talked about bringing the u. S. russia relationship back to normal. Now President Trump says the russians actually dont like him, despite what President Putin just said. Which is weird because not only did truputin say he liked trump the last election, but because of that Helsinki Summit, Relation Ares with russia had suddenly changed in matter of hours. He said that. It was recorded. Everyone heard that. Lets play i
bolton doesn t come testify, there s no reason that pompeo doesn t have to at least answer written questions, mick mulvaney, of course, if you read the piece he seems to be a central figure in this. it was dual tracks. i think that people are forgetting that sometimes. it wasn t just rudy giuliani and his campaign to solicit information against joe biden, but it was also this track of withholding the information. i mean i read the piece and i could just think about this is an amazing tom clancy novel. it just goes and meanders from one side to another, but the fact is that the person at the center of this, the person at the center of all of this who is the puppeteer for both of these tracks is donald trump. you know, it s behavior that s impeachable and the behavior that got him impeached. what did you find compelling in this story? couple of things. number one, i did is think it was interesting that several senior officials in the u.s. government tried to talk the president out of
background in it, then the whole system is falling apart. there s no sense if you re a diplomat in this administration that you will have the confidence and the backing of the people who put you in your positions. just take bill taylor as an example. he testified in this impeachment probe and was put in his position by secretary of state mike pompeo. he s leaving the job in january. and trying to get out of there as quickly as possible. so pompeo doesn t have to be photographed with him. this is the kind of thing that, you know, if you were a diplomat why would you sign up to do this kind of job? these are people who were you know, bill taylor was begged to come back in to take over this position. so it s a long-term problem. there s a real morale issue that has really to restore morale in the agency. all of that has been
now you have sondland who s going to be on capitol hill going against the state department to do so. what does that indicate to you about who s calling the shots and the trajectory of this? seems like the the insistence by pompeo doesn t come to pass. we re going to see some brave actors stepping up more and more. perhaps that will have an effect on members of congress. i was very clear with some long time republican electives that i m on the train for impeachment after the ukraine transcript. you have to be clear with this american electorate that wants to click r for trump again. this is not normal and right. when i see the word favor in black and white, that should trouble us. our president is not a king. but republican members push back on me and say i wouldn t do it this way, but this is his way and he has an end goal. we have to trust it. that s what i hear from mike pence.
then you have rouge, i don t know why he s involved in the first place. he is the personal attorney to the president. and where is secretary pompeo in all this? he knew that he was on the call with the president and the president of ukraine. he did not tell kirk volker about what happened in terms of telling the ukrainian president to look into charges about biden. and volker is then saying to pompeo, hey, i m trying to thread the needle here and pompeo doesn t say anything. there is a history of lies by this president. back when he was going after obama he said i ve got investigators in hawaii coming up with good stuff, all made up. now he seems to be wanting to setup here a line he can use that says the ukrainian government is now investigating joe biden son s relationship with the gas company. he wants that draft. so he s got giuliani over there, his fixer, writing the draft for the ukrainian government so that