Were not going to issue that statement that Rudy Giuliani wanted to include burisma in the 2016 elections, there was no white house meeting. Soon became clear to them that the Security Assistance was also at risk and that took on a renewed importance for them. Following the July 25th Call, it had to include that they would do the investigations of burisma which equaled the Biden Investigation into the ukraine interference. Was their concern about doing
the investigations or what . Where they supposed to make a statement about it . Ambassador sondland very clearly testified that all he ever heard mr. Giuliani or anyone say is that they only needed the public announcement of the investigation. Without that Public Statement that there would be no white house meeting. Yes. I was struck by how clear the evidence seems to be on this point and id like to play another example. Was they were a quid pro quo . As i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call, the answer is
connected to the withheld military aid including ambassador bill taylor. here is what he said in his testimony. to withhold that assistance for no good reason other than help with the political campaign makes no sense. was counterproductive to all of what we had been trying to do. was a logical, it could not be explained, it was crazy. a logical, explainable, craz crazy. so according to testimony, the only explanation for the withheld aid that made sense is that the president was seeking help with the political campaign, correct? that is the only logical explanation is multiple witnesses said. ambassador sondland is a trump appointee who gave a million dollars to the presidents inauguration and he testified he came to believe the resumption of security aid would
discipline from this president that i don t know he s really up to executing. good to have his lawyer response today and not live tweet the event but the suggestion that robert mueller could be looking into obstruction of justice will likely drive the president craz crazy. it s reported that attorney general sessions had a third meeting with sergey kislyak that s been previously undisclosed. there will be more leaks. president trump will remain nervous about these investigations. he s going to have to do everything m s power to control himself. bret: i have been told privately that one of the reasons they have the personal attorney, one of the reasons he made the statement was in essence did not have the president get engaged on twitte twitter. to have the personal attorney take everything and because he s forceful and in the new york style, perhaps it meets the president s wishes. he wasn t a good advocate today. he didn t present a good case.
the statement, and every moment come on, you forget the first 100 days, within the first two weeks. i don t wanted to get into my opinion on the travel ban, but i thought go on vacation, go back and look there he does. tom: is he going to be able to keep from sticking his nose in the next four years? probably not if that s any indication, but i do think that he will become relevant again, and i think he s going to play a strong role in rebuilding the democratic party. tom: you ever go down to one of those private islands brennan? you did aruba, didn t you question at i burn like craz crazy. i can t go out until about 5:30 p.m., and that s when all the ladies are headed back. i go to the beach at 5:00 but it s time to go. tom: coming up, what should you do if you re overwhelmed by a trump presidency? other than watching red eye, of course. next. rodney and his new business.
big picture plan about a relationship with iran because so far they haven t been specific at all and the lack of detail has the israelis very worried. the world has just gone scraz crazy. the president of the united states is exchanging love letters with the ayatollah khomeini who is shouting death to america and at the same time snubbing the leader of his closest ally israel. the president of the united states is sleeping with the enemy and at the same time doing nothing about the terror which iran is causing havoc with all over the world. so this is it. german foreign minister says they are entering the end game of negotiations, but beyond that we still don t know which side is making the most concessions. but we should know more by tuesday, that s the deadline for all sides to agree on a framework. then they can slow down a little bit and work on hammering out final points until june. heather? all right, until june and a