white house actually made an appeal and went to the state department, called up george kent, and asked why is he not getting this visa. it was george kent s understanding that giuliani had called the white house and asked them to figure out why this visa wasn t coming through. now, it s important here that giuliani has told cnn previously that he wanted to talk to shokin because shokin had dirt for him on the democrats. so we know he wanted to interview him in person. clearly he was not able to do so because that visa was not provided to him. but this provides some more insight into how giuliani had his fingers all over this ukrainian policy and really was able to push forth on some of his efforts to try and get people to the united states to dig up more dirt on the democrats. so this is i mean this sounds nuts. so giuliani is trying to get this guy, this allegedly or believed to be corrupt former
democrats. so this is i mean in sounds nuts. so giuliani is trying to get this guy this allegedly or believed to be corrupt former prosecutor to come to the united states to deliver more dirt on the bidens or his conspiracy theories about whatever it may be, his visa is rejected by the state department. he calls the white house. do we know do we know if the president was involved in this whole thing or just a conversation between giuliani and somebody else at the white house? we don t know the exact dynamics of how president trump was involved in this situation specifically. but let s take a step back here, bus what we do know from testimony this week, ambassador sondland told lawmakers that president trump had told people working at the state department, including ambassador sondland himself that giuliani was the key person they had to go through when it came to ukraine policy. it s no secret that president trump was speaking with giuliani
has been pushed by russia, by russian bots, by far right sources, by one of the president s key political advisers. we ll get to that in a second. but the theory goes that this attribution that russia is the entity that attacked the democratic party, the theory goes that that attribution of responsibility for the attack to russia is something that was ginned up by this company crowdstrike just as a way to make russia look bad because crowdstrike has some connection to ukraine. we re not sure what it is. ukraine hates russia. russia didn t really do it, they re being falsely blamed and maybe ukraine can get to the bottom of it. i know that sounds nuts and i know it seems like maybe it s hard for you to be parsing that out of these incoherent sentences from the president s call. the reason we can spell out more clearly what this is about because this is in real life the legal defense being mounted by the president s long-time political advisor roger stone.
has been pushed by russia, by russian bots, by far right sources, by one of the president s key political advisers. we ll get to that in a second. but the theory goes that this attribution that russia is the entity that attacked the democratic party, the theory goes that that attribution of responsibility for the attack to russia is something that was ginned up by this company crowdstrike just as a way to make russia look bad because crowdstrike has some connection to ukraine. we re not sure what it is. ukraine hates russia. russia didn t really do it, they re being falsely blamed and maybe ukraine can get to the bottom of it. i know that sounds nuts and i know it seems like maybe it s hard for you to be parsing that out of these incoherent sentences from the president s call. honestly, the reason we can spell out more clearly what this is about because this is in real life the legal defense being mounted by the president s long-time political adviser
wants to cut away. suddenly they are talking about food shortages. that s why you have a lot of members of parliament saying we must do everything we can to stop this. johnson says, i need that threat in my back pocket if i m going to get the european union to move. there are those who think he would like a no deal brexit. that will solidify support among people who want brexit and who feel frustrated that three years on the pain continues. no fish oil tablets will end the pain. that s a nice callback. that actually is clarifying. the things that he is losing these votes on is the basic he wants to keep the party behind him saying, we re going to get a no deal brexit. that s what they are losing votes on. they are losing that because people are like, that s insane, we re not going to have toilet paper and pharmaceuticals. but you think that sounds nuts. everyone says that s a disaster.