public to fully grasp and understand. but if sondland can say and can confirm what bill taylor heard from his aide, that trump feels far more interested in joe biden and the investigations as opposed to american interest in ukraine, geopolitics more broadly, that is a way in which i think the american people could be able to see how the alleged quid pro quo affected american interest in realtime. it is no longer a hypothetical, and that sort of concreteness, i think, could really elevate the democratic argument against this president. and carl bernstein, to you. politics completely aside to the point jim and sam were making earlier about national security implications here, larry pfeiffer told the washington post about this now revealed september 26th call in an open restaurant. quote, the security ramifications are insane. using an open cell phone to
conversation between trump and u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland on july 26th, a day after trump spoke by phone to ukrainian president zels and pressed them toin investigate the biden family and the 2016 election. the member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. mr. sondland told president trump that the ukrainians were ready to move forward. following the call with president trump the member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what president trump thought about ukraine. ambassador sondland responded that president trump cares more about the investigations of biden, which giuliani was pressing for. reporter: at the time trump had already frozen military aid to ukraine. diplomats were panicking about the facial security ramifications of with holding the funds and ukrainian soldiers were dying on the front lines in the battle with russia. according to today s testimony, trump was primarily concer
qualifications to fill top roles in government is dubious at best. it s blowing up on him now. we should be taking a serious look at john kelly here. the fact of the matter is that john kelly should be managing situations like this much better. if, in fact, people were sneaking tape recording devices into the situation room or other places in the white house and taping him when he s firing them, that s something that calls into question kelly s management of the white house at this point. laura bill ebuild on what jo saying. this has not been seen before. in the situation room, you have the chief of staff, a recording made and it appears that general kelly did not know that it was happening at that time. the legal ramifications, the security ramifications that might be discussed here. it s unbelievable that a woman was able to record her own
call the president took from a comedi a lot of us used to hear on the howardshow. there security ramifications from this. i don t understand how it is. how stuttering john got through to air let alone got the believ he was senator bob mendez and then the call was so bizarr by the way, part of the insight we underst the president s th pickin judge is is because of what he said in phone call. the it was such a, i don t kno if they ve heard it, but they should bob menendez was in trial and a contro figure for the republparty. the hear the president start off by congratulating him in what seems to be b a nod in beating the case and said we re all proud of you and y glad you made it through would seem like an unfai just b the presid that way to
lordship of u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley. those sanctions packages, yes, they re not immediate, but they do have an effect in further isolating north korea and putting more economic pressure on them. so look, this is good news in the last 24 hours that the north korean leader is at least willing to begin negotiating with south korea to reduce tensions to get through the olympics. it s obviously a global event, has global security ramifications, global economic ramifications. but keep in mind the preconditions that the north koreans are throwing out there, they re saying, look, the u.s. has to stop joint military operations with south korea. that may be a good idea to put that off past the olympics, but we don t need to separate the united states from south korea militarily. that would be that would strengthen the north korean leader s hand when in fact the united states supporting south korea militarily and diplomatically is of particular importance. that latest round of