ca call called froggy bottoms and it s where she planned to unwind on friday 13th. she was 5 1 and barely 100 pounds but she could hold her own with anybody. to her older siblings matt and olivia she was always the perfect combination. bouncey and bubbly and trying to have a good time. she was working to get better. she had a driven personality. kelly also had a big heart. she was warm and generous and also putting others first. she liked to help people that she saw needed help. she wanted them to be better because she could help them to be better. she grew up in florida an enlisted in the army at 22.
was shorthand word for the 2016 election. the most damning testimony potentially here for the president might have come from alexander vindman. he was the only official to testify thus far who was on the call. the alleged call we ve been talking about. the director of european affairs said that he did not think that it was proper to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citizen. then just this morning house republicans released their wish list. they include, surprise, hunter biden and the whistleblower him or herself. to our panel right now, ned price, anita kumar, and dodonia and josh gerstein. josh, i want to start with you. i know it is not easy to summarize 2600 pages, but what stood out to you now that we are
president broke no laws in his july phone call with ukraine s leader. barr ultimately declined to hold that press conference. bill barr is not denying that they had they are not saying anything. let me tell you, i neff asknevem for a press conference. if i asked bill barr to have a press conference, i think he d do it. but i never asked him. the justice department has sought to distance itself from the ukraine scandal despite the ca call s summary. and democrats are pushing for documents related to the president s request. kamala harris, richard blumenthal and sheldon whitehouse sent a request for
that. let s start, katie, with your reporting on this. was he asked? did he say no? what do we know? we have reporting that says that the white house put a request through intermediaries to bill bar ar to hold a prers saying nothing bad happened on this call. and one of the reasons why we think this happened is because a similar negotiation occurred around the mueller report whereas the justice department pushed and pushed to put out all 400 plus pages of unflattering information, trump didn t want to happen. so barr agreed to hold a press conference saying at the end of the investigation, there no reason to prosecute president trump. he declined to hold the presser with the ukraine calm and instead put out a narrow statement saying we do not think that the single crime of
because the wall street journal had reported eight times that the president had sort of brought it back to biden or pressured the ukrainian president. we don t know if that s in one phone or cacall or multiple con. good question. what was the chronology involving this aid package, and why was it delayed, and wife hy it finally granted? what was the connection if any between the aid package and the discussions about getting dirt on joe biden? what was the role of rudy giuliani in all of this? was he sending messages to the ukrainian government about getting information on the biden family? he had meetings and talks with ukrainians, and he said on hannity last night that some of those were set up by the state department. what was the role of the state department? facilitating rudy giuliani s efforts on behalf of donald trump? you know, all of those are questions that will not be answered tomorrow. tomorrow is going to be important. i mean if this transcript of the