coming home to roast for this president. these are national security issues. he has all of this hanging over his head and any foreign leader could hold this over his head and use this to blackmail him. this is a national security issue in a constitutional crisis, this is a hot, steamy, stinky mess. and jamie, when it comes to the call, the ukraine president call, mike pompeo was on this call, just confirmed, which is very interesting considering there was no indication and he danced around it this weekend about being on the call or knowing much about this call? right. and what we re going to hear from their talking points from the white house and from the republicans was, well, there was nothing wrong with the call. we didn t think there was anything wrong but there is no question the state department waited a long time to confirm that mike pompeo was on that call. we still do not know whether he will be testifying this week or
bye-bye, see you in a month. washington is now heading off for its summer vacation. their august recess. what do you do when you re heading off for vacation? well, don t you tend to take care of a few last-minute things? maybe you run the dishwasher one last time. you take out the trash. you do all of these things in order to put your house in order. before you leave. and you do that so that you re not faced with a big, stinky mess when you get back home. that s what people do when they re heading out for vacation. turns out washington did the same thing. now, contrary to what you may have heard, they actually did get some stuff accomplished before they skipped town today. for example, we now officially have a brand new u.s. ambassador to the united nations. that s vice president joe biden swearing in samantha power this morning as our new u.n. ambassador. samantha power of course replaces susan rice who s now president obama s national