it s up to john bolton. the official policy of the white house outlined in the letter from the council was no one can talk ever to congress about this. but we have seen in people like taylor s testimony that a lot of people are ignoring that instruction and we ll have to see whether bolton will. many of the many fascinating aspects of the testimony today was that it raised the possibility of so many more people testifying, including bolton. including mike pence. william barr, the toernl attorney general. lots of people implicated by the testimony. john i wanted i want to read part wlaf ambassador sondland said last we can. said inviting a foreign government to undertake investigations for the purpose of influencing an upcoming u.s. election would be wrong. withholding foreign aide to pressure a foreign government to take such steps would be wrong. i did not and would not
and bolton is one of the people who was saying stop this non-sense with giuliani saying that this should not be pennsylvania relationship with ukraine should not be tide to domestic politics. bolton is subpoenaed. does he have to come appear testify? well he is no longer a government employee. and not in good odor at the white house and not fond of the president. it s up to john bolton. the official policy of the white house outlined in the letter from the council was no one can talk ever to congress about this. but we have seen in people like taylor s testimony that a lot of people are ignoring that instruction and we ll have to see whether bolton will. many of the many fascinating aspects of the testimony today was that it raised the possibility of so many more people testifying, including bolton. including mike pence. williambury, the toernl attorney general.
with those beliefs. many of us don t like it, but those are his beliefs. president trump s personal toernl rudy giuliani said he won t testify before congress without first consulting his client, the president of the united states. can he expert executive privilege here or can the president expert it on his behalf? the president, he s private counsel so the president can assert attorney/client privilege. the president can say these are what i don t authorize you to testify to, and i think he prevails in that respect as long as there is a proper attorney/client relationship between the president and attorney rudy giuliani, something i don t know if it exists and the communication falls within the concept, but we don t know because giuliani is
the southern district of new york and he wouldn t say that he didn t try to do that. why would that be? yes, so first there s a predicate we ought to discuss, and that is everybody right now in the southern district of new york is a career civil servant. i believe the u.s. toernl is at not confirmed by the southern district. you cannot define any of them. reassigning career asas would be extraordinary. all of that said, we discussed on your show, nicolle, the fact what s going on in the southern district of new york, the financial investigation of the campaign, of the inaugural committee, of the trump foundation, of the trump organization, of the trumps themselves is as important as the work bob mueller is doing. so you would also hope, although there s no reason to have any hope any longer in matt whitaker, but you would also hope he would be able to say that, he would protect the men and women in the southern
by bob mueller s team, 7-0 hours. soon thereafter president trump sends out a tweet canceling his meeting at the g0. russia says that s news to us. he made the announcement in a tweet. do you think he s doing it to cover this or do you think he has actual occurrence about russia and ukraine? he ought to have but does he? no. the chronology with this is oernl about an hour before he got on the plane saying we were going to go ahead with the meeting with mr. putin and the announce many afterwards. nothing happened in that hour about ukraine. we ve known what the russians were up to in ukraine. we ve known what they re up to. anything developed in the ukraine spain that would have warranted calling off the meeting, if anything, let s be straight here for a second.