by leaks of the content of those discussions. yeah, john hudson, stick around i want to bring in cnn senior political analyst davidger again and jeffrey toobin. shouldn t putin be the last person on the planet influencing how president trump feels about ukraine given the fact that putin has invaded crimea? absolutely, and it s hard to think of a more wholesome trio than giuliani, putin, and orban, you know. it is like what? what are we doing here? listen, a little context. it has been american foreign policy for some time now to support and strengthen ukraine, to come to the aid of those leaders. that s why we were sending them money because the russians had invaded their country, were threatening to dominate the country, and so the whole point of mattis and kelly and bolton was to reinforce the president and make sure he approached the ukrainians in a sense of trying to help them.
you know, everybody works for the state department and sending, you know, rudy giuliani to skulk about in ukraine and meet up with his friends he s being paid by, who are taking had imarouhim around to hunt do biden scoops in a server. it sounds almost like a joke, but the idea it s actually real is extraordinary. yeah. i mean it s horrific. then you ve got the president throwing ukraine under the bus essentially vis-รก-vis russia by saying, well, okay, the brain surgeons that i have working on this, guys like giuliani and putin of course and of course orban telling me, look, ukraine is a very corrupt place, not to be trusted. don t help them because of course that would be bad for russia. he buys it. the president says, yeah, i believe what vladimir putin tells me about this, so i ll hold the money that they need so badly. why? to thwart russian invasions and further annexation of crimea.
also kaitlan collins and jeffrey toobin. david, shouldn t putin be the last person on the planet influencing how president trump feels about ukraine given the fact that putin has invaded crimea? absolutely. and it s hard to think of a more wholesome trio than giuliani, putin, and orban. you know, it is like what? what are we doing here? listen, a little context. it has been american foreign policy for some time now to support and strengthen ukraine, to come to the aid of those leaders. that s why we were sending them money, because the russians had invaded their country, were threatening to dominate the country. so the whole point of mattis and kelly and bolton was to reinforce the president and make sure he approached the ukrainians in a sense of trying to help them. instead, what the president listened to with putin and orban and giuliani, and it soured his view on the ukrainians, and
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we know there were meetings in advance between the epa s top decision-maker on this and the mining company, but the epa is insisting that there was no advanced notice on what they called the timing or content of this decision. they said that those meetings, including meetings with those opposed to the mine are quite common. the epa fighting back on this with us saying there was no tip. so where is this complaint going? the sec is not investigating at this point, right? well, we don t know. this complaint was just filed. we talked to about a half a dozen former investigators, experts on this, they all say look, there s red flag there is. we won t know if the sec is investigating. even if they are investigating because that s pretty much private, but we ll find out if something goes up. more to come on tonight s breaking news, did vladimir putin pull more of the president s strings? did president trump may right into putin s hands? right back with the report on the house intelligen