opportunity at all to convince trump to hit the brakes on some whacky or destructive idea. he s less inclined today to preview his decisions. here s how it might play out in the early days of the administration. the president sees something on television, he doesn t like it. it makes him think maybe i should fire the secretary of commerce or we should pull out of that treaty it s really a terrible treaty after all. he might tee up a tweet, then he bounces it off the next aide he talks to who s stunned to discover the terrible idea is tip of brain for the president of the united states and might be on the brink of becoming reality. the aide finds the president disinterested in thinking through the consequences. we re going to do this today, okay, tell sean to get rider. he wants press secretary sean spicer prepared to defend it to the death. staff throw up the bat signal calling a snap meeting or teleconference. he s about to do something, one warns the group explaining what the preside
well, among the u.s. officials who were at that meeting, in addition to those people i just pointed out, was this person in the second row here. that s an aide to mike pence, someone detailed to the pence office. she s named jennifer williams. she was also listening in on the july 25th phone call between president trump and president zelensky. the one where zelensky asked trump for military aid and trump said said do us a favor, though. jennifer williams, that official appeared on capitol hill today to give testimony on the impeachment proceedings, she s the first person from the president s office to do so. but i want to point out one other thing, also at that september 1st meeting was the man we spot shadowed here. this was the senior director on the national security council who was involved in ukrainian negotiations. today while jennifer williams was testifying behind closed doors in the impeachment proceedings that other guy who was also there at that meeting quit his job.
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vice president mike pence. the president is being impeached for withholding military aid from ukraine to force tem to go after joe biden. he had almost certainly received the transcript of the collin which president trump demanded that the ukrainian president do exactly that, and then pence was at that meeting with an aide who d actually been on that call. vice president pence s defense in the impeachment proceedings thus far seem tuesday be, hey, you know, at that meeting, at that september 1st meeting when i pressured the ukrainian president about corruption, i didn t know corruption meant joe biden. even though everybody else at that meeting apparently definitely knew it was about joe biden, mike pence s defense thus far is i had no idea. meanwhile everybody around him is quitting and revising their testimony. you okay, mr. vice president? testimony. you okay, mr. vice president
do you hear me? that is not the normal kind of thing a judge has to say in any criminal trial let alone one connected this closely to the president of the united states. so lots to get to tonight. these are crazy times. but things have been crazy for a while now as you know. and that brings us to this scoop that we ve got tonight. it was more than a year ago now, september 5th of last year when an op-ed was published in the new york times. the headline was i am part of the resistance, inside the trump administration. i worked for the president but like minded colleagues and i have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. that op-ed published in the new york times last september, the author anonymous. before you got to the actual op-ed there was this paragraph of explanation from the new