On this episode of The Final Countdown, hosts Angie Wong and Ted Rall cover a range of topics domestically and abroad including Roger Stone s alleged death threats to Democrats.
biden and his son is what we re talking about even though there s absolutely no evidence that either did anything wrong. and the investigation of that debunked conspiracy theory about a dnc server. and bill taylor clearly lays all of that at the feet of the president s personal attorney, rudy giuliani. the transcript of the testimony mentions giuliani more than 40 times. but this says it all right here. quote, i think the origin of the idea to get president zelensky to say out loud he s going to investigate burisma remember that s the company that joe biden s son was on the board of, burisma in the 2016 election, i think the originator, the person who came up with that was mr. giuliani. question: and he was representing whose interest? answer: president trump. and going on to lay out exactly what the shakedown of ukraine was about. another quote here. as i understand the reason for investigating burisma again the company that he was on the
and by the way, i would frankly suggest to you there is more evidence gathered thus far to suggest that the president did shake down the ukraine and threaten to withhold military assistance, creating an increased vulnerability among our strategic partner than there is evidence to support the idea that the sun will come up in the east tomorrow. i think we re way beyond that. thirdly, i think what they re going to hear from ambassador taylor is a pretty good, brilliant construct of why it is that the ukraine is important to america s national security and why they are a strategic partner and an ally in our effort to check the malign intent and aggression of russia. speaking of ambassador taylor, his transcripts from his testimony released today. let me just read from his transcript. that was my clear understanding. security assistance money would not come until the president committed to pursue the investigation, meaning the president of ukraine committed to pursue the investigation. i
they told the jurors this was the senior man on the campaign, that he was the ceo of the campaign and that roger stone and he were emailing. roger stone and he were talking. then as you said, rick gates. rick gates is going to come in as well. and then the other big reveal here today was that we learned from the first witness, a former fbi agent who worked on the mueller team and was responsible for the roger stone investigation she said that on the day that it was reported, once news started getting out that the dnc had been hacked, roger stone and then-candidate trump were communicating. there are phone calls between them, at least three going back and forth where roger stone is calling trump, trump is calling him on his cell phone, and even on his home phone. a key part of that is to show that there was contact, that there was constant contact between roger stone and people inside the campaign. okay. so let s stop here, elie and just say if people had known that during the muell
not come until the president of ukraine committed to pursue the investigation. well, the investigation of joe biden and his son is what we re talking about even though there s absolutely no evidence that either did anything wrong. and the investigation of that debunked conspiracy theory about a dnc server. and bill taylor clearly lays all of that at the feet of the president s personal attorney, rudy giuliani. the transcript of the testimony mentions giuliani more than 40 times. but this says it all right here. quote, i think the origin of the idea to get president zelensky to say out loud he s going to investigate burisma remember that s the company that joe biden s son was on the board of, burisma in the 2016 election, i think the originator, the person who came up with that was mr. giuliani. question and he was representing whose interest? answer president trump. and going on to lay out exactly what the shakedown of ukraine