president that i just talked about with chris, the one urging him to dig up dirt on joe biden. so he s already seething at the house speaker, and he is likely seething at republicans who voted to rebuke his decision to withdraw u.s. forces, thereby abandoning the kurds and leaving them open to attack by turkey, their mortal enemy. and we know when trump is cornered, he goes on the attack. he was insulting, particularly to the speaker. she kept her cool completely, but he called her a third-rate politician. he said that there are communists involved, and you guys might like that. i mean this was not a dialogue. it was sort of a diatribe, a nasty diatribe, not focused on the facts. well, he actually used the term correctly, third-rate, if
in terms of the congress, our responsibility is to fairly get the information according to the rules. and mr. schiff is running that show for us now. thank you all very much. once again, this is not your typical news conference by nancy pelosi. it comes when her good friend and ally, willing, passed away. it comes on the heels on what was an incredibly contentious meeting yesterday at the white house with president trump where he either called her third rate or third grade. it ended very badly with him saying he d see them at the polls and the democrats left that meeting, and most significantly, as nancy pelosi points out, it s come at a time when the president is facing off with both parties. both parties rebuking him for his decision to abandon
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schumer. any other reporting on what exactly was communicated between what appears like two sides having different conversations, not even clear they were talking about the same thing? well, yeah. they said that impeachment did not come up. but you can obviously imagine the sub text of this conversation is supposed to be about one of the biggest issues confronting the united states. president trump sees the speaker who says she is leading an impeachment effort to potentially charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors. that context obviously flavors this kind of a meeting even if it wasn t explicit. when he goes after her and calls her a third-rate politician he is expressing frustration with a congress who is what he sees is more focused on taking him down. somebody who seems to be spiraling in his public
and the white house. i am sure pompeo was the last thing he wanted to do was up accept that sheaf of papers from rudy giuliani. [ laughter ] if he was is that right he would have had an aid so he could say i never touched it myself. it s sort of a scary process whereby trump seems to look at every institution and government as some organization to affect his conspiracy theories. that s how he s using the state department. giuliani was using the state department like it s a third-rate detective agency. shocking but maybe it shouldn t be. you can see in bossert s frustration. imagine if you re a career expert, a subject matter expert, a foreign affairs expert, security expert, and you re part of the american government which for all its faults is a pretty great institution around the world. it s being turned into an instigator of the common section on breitbart or whatever. literally it is being perverted to give life to these made-up