we learned that u.s. officials were working together with rudy giuliani to draft a statement that the ukrainian government was going to put out, saying they would investigate joe biden. it wasn t good enough to say they will investigate corruption, which the president pretends that s what he s interested in. they had to name burisma specifically. sondland took five hours to respond to that text. he then comes back after bill taylor said, twice, we don t exchange assistance dash melissa: i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. one reason he would take hours to respond to it, doesn t feel like a set up? one of those situations where you say, gosh, do you feel bad about the fact he murdered that person last night? in a text. it just sounds i don t know. it s a little bit difficult to believe. the other point i would say, you would have to prove that he has
melissa: president trump a short time ago defending his public calls for china as well as ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son, hunter. watch. if we feel there is corruption, like i feel there was in the 2016 campaign, there was tremendous corruption against me. if we feel there is corruption, we have a right to go to a foreign country. i m only interested in corruption. i don t care about politics. i don t care about biden s politics. i never thought biden was going to win. if you look and you read our constitution and many other things, i have an obligation to look at corruption. melissa: he also clarified that a treaty with china is in no way tied to the nation s willingness to investigate the bidens. in return, ukraine s top prosecutor and i think he will
you don t need any more evidence. without question, public corruption. harris: hold on one second, i want to hear from tomi before we hit the commercial break. tomi: i agree with you wholeheartedly. anything you say, i will say i agree wholeheartedly with that. the fact that we should be talking about biden. regardless of all these other things going on, i think you should be scared. because the brick and people, like you said, all it takes is a brain to see the corruption. harris: president trump says we are but there is nothing wrong with asking for country to investigate option, even though it s a public level. with the public agree as impeachment increase continue? stay with us. because there was tremendous corruption with biden, but i think that was beyond. beyond corruption, having to do with the 2016 campaign. for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-seven vitamins and minerals.
republicans because there are democrats who feel queasy about this and who are from swing districts. especially states like texas, the suburbs. maybe they don t want to be out on a limb on this. but the timing is not great for republicans. it follows after a string of bad news for the president about the tax and the other things. if they held the vote today, she would have plenty of votes to get the job done. democrats have seen poll numbers turned their way on this and they feel optimistic. it doesn t mean that stays that way. but right now the clock is working in democrats slavery. harris: jessica? jessica: i agree with chris assessment. if the vote was today and we will probably make it to monday, it ll still be okay. that s when he delivers the letter that the politics of impeachment are swinging in democrats favors. they want to focus on stamping out corruption, but the text messages that were revealed are absolutely damning for the administration. harris: i was going to
harris: it s been a minute, and i missed the sound of her voice, tomi. tomi: [laughs] jessica: jared kushner is in charge of mideast policy. i don t even know if you took a particle science in college. tomi: is always back to trump, back to trump. i agree with you and chris and i think we all agree, it was this the best move for them to do this? no, he could have kept his hands clean and it would have been much better for everyone at the seat end of this country. it is what it is. the media should have covered it, asking questions pay the media should have, others should have done it. donald trump and rudy giuliani, probably not. it puts us in a bad situation. but here we are. jessica: the difference is what is illegal and what isn t. and what hunter biden has done, it is not illegal. you can say it stinks, that it shouldn t be that way. melissa: its public corruption. jessica: you keep repeating that, but no one has concluded that is the case. melissa: there s a reason