howard: time now to raise race the buzz meter clock. go. axios says the media s response to their own mistakes has been tepid. only the washington post has run a major correction on the steele dossier after a recent indictment. cnn just posted a piece saying there are legitimate questions about how the media, including cnn, covered the dossier, but never running a correction. the new york times won a pulitzer along with the washington post , but the paper did publish an opinion piece by journalism professor that was pretty tough on the media in general saying some reporters simply didn t like or trust mr. trump or didn t want to appear on his side and that his attacks on them shouldn t matter, but they did. but no mention of the new york times own role, none.
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the president s that is of primary importance. let me read you a statement from senator ron johnson who wrote this letter to the republicans on your committee. he said vindman s testimony together wiother witnesses use similar terms of our policy, long standing policy, lend further credence to the point that i m making. whether you agree with president trump or not, it should be acknowledged that the constitution vests the power of conducting foreign policy with the duly elected president. republicans saying that vindman had a problem with the policy but that shouldn t matter. and of all the bologna i ve seen floated by the republicans, of all the shabby defenses they have mounted. that may take the cake. of course it is his foreign policy, but it is not his prerogative to extort a vulnerable leader. nobody disagrees that the policy
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but after sondland s sworn testimony to the impeachment committees, he went back and reversed his position. admitting that he told a top ukrainian official, resumption of u.s. aide would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks. sondland is now scheduled to testify in the open next week. democrats saying he has a lot to answer for. gordon sondland was not truthful to the committee. it s pretty obvious. reporter: senior aide to the president, kellyanne conway, arguing to wolf blitzer that what the staffer says he heard shouldn t matter. you re telling us what somebody else said, what somebody else overheard. but he ll be asked, how close were you to the phone? have you ever heard the president s voice on the phone before? were you in a restaurant? how noisy was it? reporter: republicans have picked up that argument, that the many officials who have testified that the trump administration demanded inve
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