he doesn t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for. i think he s a kook, i think he s crazy. i think he s unfit for office. last thing before we go tonight, the question that is asked at least once a day by perfectly normal, polite-thinking people, what happened to that lindsey graham? that lindsey graham right there, one-third of the original three amigos of graham, mccain and lieberman, law and order republican, anti-russia at all cost republican, for some reason has gone all-in, he has gone full supplicant to donald trump. lindsey graham is now trying to start a senate investigation of the bidens and ukraine, even after the senate has been briefed that the whole idea of ukraine meddling in our elections is a fiction that was developed by putin of russia, who did meddle in our election.
happen to any of those people let s put bolton aside for a moment, but if giuliani or mulvaney turned on trump in some way, the jeopardy for trump would be even higher, and it s already extraordinarily high. that s the only thing that s prevented one or more of them from being sent off the island so far, because the president recognizes just how much trouble he s in. katie, the ag, bill barr, came on at first as such a supplicant. people in the legal community who knew him when were alarmed by it. and yet it bumps up against the latest chapter. the reporting indicates a request from the president, have a press conference, clear my name, say i m guilty of no crimes. is this perhaps proof, without asking for analysis from you, that bill barr has limits, ultimately? sure. first i want to clarify one thing the president said, he said we reported that he requested that bill barr hold a press conference. that s not what we reported. we reported that people close to the white house and
for trump would be even higher, and it s already extraordinarily high. that s the only thing that s preeve prevented one or more of them from being sent off the island so far, because the president realizes how much trouble he s in. katie, the ag, bill barr, came on at first as such a supplicant. people in the legal community who knew him when were alarmed by it. and yet it bumps up against the latest chapter. the reporting indicates a request from the president, have a press conference, clear my name, say i m guilty of no crimes. is this perhaps proof, without asking for analysis from you, that bill barr has limits, ultimately? sure. first i want to clarify one thing the president said, he said we reported that he requested that bill barr hold a press conference. that s not what we reported. we reported that people close to the white house and people in the white house sent a request over to the justice department. he s bringing up a different point to knock down our
only thing i think it s prevented one or more of them from being sent off the island so far has just been the fact that trump recognizes for all of his bluster, he recognizes just how much trouble he s in. and katie, back to the guy you cover on a daily basis, and that s the a.g., bill barr. he came on at first as such a supplicant. people in the legal community who knew him when were alarmed by it. and yet it bumps up against this latest chapter. the reporting indicates a request from the president, have a press conference, clear my name. is this perhaps proof without asking for analysis from you that bill barr has limits ultimately? sure. i want to clarify we reported that people close to the white house and people in the white house sent a request over to the justice department. so he s bringing up a different point to knock down our reporting. we never said that. so i ll start there.
actively withheld from ukraine since he took office. ukraine is now further weakened by these allegations that the new ukrainian president is a supplicant to the united states, trying to get that support. that makes him look weak too. the united states has in multiple ways weakened ukraine, put them in a weakened negotiating position they used to be in vis-à-vis the united states, while russia has been increasing pressure on ukraine to come to the table right now and do a deal right now. well, today, the other big surprise news of the day, today the ukrainian government took a major step toward doing a deal with moscow, to settle the war that started when russia invaded their country. ukraine today signed accords that will allow the russian-occupied areas in eastern ukraine to hold elections and potentially be granted a special status so that they re different from the rest of ukraine and presumably would