with a straight face can say that this is about u.s. concern over on going corruption in ukraine because just basically, if you are the president of the united states, and you are really concerned about current corruption in ukraine, you have many levers of government. you don t need to have rudy giuliani sku giuliani meeting with ukrainian officials well, this is transparently. an inappropriate attempt to smear a political rival using military and foreign assistance as leverage over a vulnerable foreign leader so in your political campaign from a foreign individual, a foreign government. it s flatout wrong and probably illegally and more than justified an impeachment inquiry. there are a lot of moving parts and people who will have to be interviewed as not just the director of national intelligence tomorrow. not just the whistle blower. there is groiuliani and the am
preventing future misconduct because you could impeach this guy every day of the week and he still is going to be there and he might keep doing this. we ll talk about impeachment later in the show. carl, i want to stay focused on today s release of the rough transcript, et cetera and a number of times in this transcript you see president trump bringing up attorney general barr. in fact, not once, not twice, five times in the rough transcript he brings up barr, that barr will be working in coordination with the ukrainians and rudy giuliani, president trump s personal attorney to investigate vice president biden. are you surprised that president trump sees barr as kind of like his own private detective/personal attorney? not at all. all you have to do is look at barr s handling of the mueller inquiry but more than that, barr at the present time is conducting an investigation
questions about this investigation, he trying to get questions about the economy but didn t explain what he meant when we said we would like you to do us a favor and what rudy giuliani was doing in ukraine hitting pressure points with the ukrainians according to the president, reporters should go ask rudy what he was doing out there. anderson, jake? jim acosta, thanks very much. the president, he was basically saying everybody does this, senators, this is normal behavior accused without any instance that the obama administration had done this against him. this is not normal. no, and u.s. senators pushing ukraine to cooperate with justice department investigations is not the same thing as a president privately
troubling. republican senator mitt romney calling it troubling in the extreme. republican senator pat tumy calling it inappropriate. governor pence in the vice presidential debates of 2016 called it pretty basic stuff. now y all need to know out there, this is basic stuff. foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot participate in the american political process. indeed. now so much of what we do know about this scandal has been admitted by president trump or rudy giuliani. stated out in the open. this afternoon sitting with zelensky the president noted how much military aid the united states has given ukraine while calling hunter biden corrupt and says zelensky is known for fighting corruption. when biden s son walks away with millions of dollars from ukraine and he knows nothing and
we re told there was one in april, as well. we don t know about rudy giuliani s activities but seems like regardless of what comes out of that, everyone pretty dug in at this point on capitol hill. here is one thing that we do know. one person can make a huge difference. there s somebody inside that federal bureaucracy that they saw something and it bothered them. and they decided they were going to do something and they didn t leak it. they didn t go out and try to, you know, they went through the chain of command and said i just don t think this is right. and as a result of that one person saying i just don t think it s right and trying to use the mechanisms that america s government created for people like that, here we are tonight. so one person could make a difference. i don t know where this leads but please, i think we should be very, very proud of that person for standing up. hopefully, this works out in some great way, some miracle ends happily but one person makes it. we