delight of american foreign policy experts. he represented a new day in ukraine, a country still struggling to overcome its crooked post-soviet past. not to mention armed conflict with russian-backed forces, for which ukraine was receiving american funding. so it s no surprise zelensky was eager to forge a relationship with the u.s. and soon found the main artery of communication with donald trump was rudy giuliani. may 20th, two very important things happened. first, president zelensky officially takes office. he had reportedly spent time leading up to his inauguration consulting with advisers on ways to tip-toe around the relationship with giuliani so as not to interfere in u.s. politics. neither trump nor pence attended his inauguration. the whistle-blower says trump wanted to see how zelensky chose to act in office. the second thing that happened that day former ambassador marie yovanovitch fearing for her
do they need him? well, ideally you need bill barr, john bolton, you need mick mulvaney. they all seem to be steadfastly refusing or as was mentioned earlier just waiting on judicial ruling that probably will not come in time. so that is essentially a way it avoid testifying. so the democrats really have to go ahead and do what they are going to do assuming that they are not going to get any cooperation here. bill barr can tip toe away and say i m not going to say it was a perfect statement. he is already very well enmeshed in this. his justice department refused to investigate the whistleblower complaint in the first place. he did not recuse himself even though he was named in the complaint and he also was trying to keep it from getting to congress in the first place. so he is very deeply involved. i would be very surprised if he would get anywhere within about a mile of capitol hill. katie r two katies next t
it is what they should say or should condemn what the president said today. i thoug if she s going to tiptoe, she seems to want to tiptoe from the side of trump. they re worried. they re caught in the middle. i was surprised when mcconnell agree when he said he would have no choice but to have a trial. maybe i am missing something, he did not inject the partisan rhetoric there in terms of it is a witch hunt and nancy pelosi and democrats were just out. danny, did you pick up on that. we were over reading it. mitch mcconnell is a process guy. they re going to go on and do the trial. they ll dispense it quickly if
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electoral college votes have been unlocked. they are in contention. and we will have a seat at the table. we ve got a president who is revoking security clearances against his political enemies, in which he is talking about banning muslims from the united states, and campaigning on that. doing sorts of things that are unimaginable even in a fiction version of american governance but we are living it now. especially when the republican party is now led by donald trump and his supporters, that feels different than it might coming out of president obama or any other recent time. the idea of abolishing the electoral college as you suggested. the idea of expanding the supreme court to 15 seats with a different method of picking judges. i feel like those are bold, structural ideas about protecting our democracy. it also feels like we re balanced on tiptoe in terms of