important thing we ought to t be investing meeting. > well, sean, i think everyoe in americaca was objective looks at this knows this doesn t pass the smell test for joe biden bragged about it, he flew over there and told them in six hours he s leaving with the million dollars of our money, taxpayer money, if they don t fire the guy looking into his son. i mean, my goodness, that is not quid pro quo, i don t know what is, but of course, that s why the democratsrs want to throw up all of the smoke screens. they don t want you to look over there, i show you the shiny object behind thehe tree and create innuendo about president trump who by the way, sean, the law says, the law says that the president, before he gives taxpayer money to any country, has to go and verify actually verify that they are not participating in corruption. in fact, that s a law that adam schiff himself voted for, and so when you look at what president trump is doing, he s trying to root out the corruption th
he knows he is crazy like a fox a lot of the time. do what you have to do, i don t care how you do it. that message comes through loud and clear. and i do also think that going back to a point that ezra made a year earlier, it is fortunate for us to not use these smoke screens because all of the talk about the whistle-blower, we have the report of that phone call that the white house itself released. and we re talking about whether or not the whistle-blower will tell us anything new as if the foundation of the complaint has unless to do with the whistle-blower. rosa brooks, ezra klein,
that message comes through loud and clear. and i do also think that going back to a point that ezra made a year earlier, it is fortunate for us to not use these smoke screens because all of the talk about the whistle-blower, we have the report of that phone call that the white house itself released. and we re talking about whether or not the whistle-blower will tell us anything new as if the foundation of the complaint has unless to do with the whistle-blower. rosa brooks, ezra klein, thank you both for joining us. when we come back, william barr has been flying around the world to investigate a deep state conspiracy theory. that s what the attorney general is doing right now. we re going to save him a lot of
and last week have been different than the previous two years. the democrats are now wielding that weapon we ll see to what end. the other thing is that people are slipping through the cracks. kurt volker who will speak to congress today to an extent has slipped through the cracks. he quit his job last week and has agreed to speak to congress or be deposed by congress. and this is despite the fact that mike pompeo has tried to throw up smoke screens to people from the state department. you mentioned the critical fact. he s left his job. he no longer works for the state department. the former ambassador to ukraine, she is another important figure in this. she was fired in effect from her job as ambassador. but she s still a state department employee. whether she, in fact, testifies next week is an interesting question. supposedly she is.
are doing everything that they can to distract us and to throw dirt and to put up a million different smoke screens. and i think it s going to be our job to knock them down and keep everybody focused on what we do know about this story. and, wendy sherman, when the president talks about the phone call, he lies about it constantly. lies about it even though we have the rough transcript of it that shows that the president is lying about it. but then when he s asked the central question today about that phone call, he couldn t he couldn t come close to an answer and basically ended up with, are you talking to me? right, this is a man who is clearly cornered, is going to blame everyone else except himself. standing next to the president of finland, who looked like he wished, you know, he could drop through a hole in the floor to get away from this. at the end of the press conference saying to the president, he hopes that our great democracy continues. hint, hint, hint, mr. president.