it s just not worth impeaching over. eight ukrainian soldiers died in the month of august because they didn t have proper weapons. 50 ukrainian soldiers were killed and wounded in the month of september. there are harms and there are fouls. there are dead people. there a shooting war going on in ukraine. the united states has undertaken to help ukraine. congress voted massively to help ukraine. soldiers died while waiting for weapons that president trump delayed. and we re out of time, but aisha what s the big question you think is important to get at the hearings next week? i think the big question will be what exactly did bill taylor know and when did he know it, and why does he feel so certain that it was an exchange that the white house wanted for these investigations to give up the aid. all interesting questions, which is how we started this segment. my thanks to both of you. i appreciate it. thank you. thank you. thank you. do you remember this person on a bike wh
believe it feel like it s just too unbelievable or too counter to u.s. national security interests, which is something a lot of people across the spectrum tend to care about. they don t really want to hear about or believe that the president is actively working for foreign interests or self-interests above our security because our men and women fight and die for that. with that in mind, take a look at one of the fox news arguments we ve been hearing, david. i showed one person who had moved around. here s a guest on fox. take a look. should they have been asked to investigate the bidens for violations of ukrainian law? no. should the aid have been dragged out after congress passed it and the president signed legislation to give it to them? no. but at the end, i think their best dechfense is going to be n harm, no foul. what do you think of that? give credit where it s due. that s a former prosecutor. you know andy. tucker carlson wrote a piece early on that said this stuff actually
turning now to an extraordinary development inside a courtroom in washington today featuring opening arguments in the trial of roger stone. prosecutors with the trump justice departments laying out a case suggesting president trump may have committed a new crime in office by lying to the mueller probe. this was all part of the blockbuster opening statement by former mueller prosecutor himself aaron zelinsky now a regular do j, line prosecutor. he s telling jurors they can convict stone for lying to congress because stone lied about the fact that he twice spoke to trump before the 2016 election, something trump shot down by telling mueller i have no recollection of any communication with stone. we ve heard allegations trump was lying about that before. what s new here is that it is trump s own justice department insisting that it s false in
things written down. this is a public servant who did write it down and has it there to tell the american public, and this can go a long way towards shaping public understanding and perceptions. right, of what went down. of this piece of the process. of what was going on at the time. if the house is teaming up something that the senate will ultimately judge, there s two ways to look at that sort of firewall you described. one is if it really doesn t move at all, it frees the house up to make whatever broad case they want, that we ve reported on members of congress who still think that the president s racial incidents should be in there, mueller obstruction, all sorts of other things, emoluments, whereas if they have a different strategy they might go more narrow. does your reporting tell us yet anything about those strategy discussions? i think it s been partly not partly, largely determined by the time line. people close to the democratic
whistle-blower come forward alleging bribery blowing this thing open, but in october sondland was still in trump s corner there. no bribery, playing down this plot to congress. then you have taylor and others testifying that there was bribery and bringing along receipts. and tonight we re seeing how that full testimony for the first time, we re seeing the exchange. we re seeing what moved members of congress, but it didn t only move congress. it also moved sondland himself because he has just moved over very simply to the bribery side of this equation. he suddenly remembered bribery. he amended his own testimony to show it, and tonight you have donald trump over there increasingly on an island of the people involved in the plot, not yet congress but the people involved, the dip ldiplomats thy are on the bribery side. we re not only seeing the details, we re also seeing this public story from trump s own officials move away from trump and towards taylor.