devastating. you would have to bend yourself in extraordinary contortions to defend it and imply indicates the a.g. the in what is a wholely improper political. what further reaction are you seeing from both sides? my twitter feed is blowing up with democrats saying this is horrible for the president. this is more reason why we should go down this road of impeach: you have republicans saying the opposite thing. this political climate has become to polarized that there is no one looking at this and saying hum, let s take a look at both sides. either you are on one side or the other. on the issue of the javelins, too. the sale of those anti-tank missiles was approved in late 2017. so i asked and pinged him back to find out if the new sale of javelins was part of the $350 million in aid put on hold.
far? a couple things. one is i don t see a tie to the money, the funding, the aid. specifically. and i don t see eight times joe biden being mentioned. i count three. so some of the early reporting may have been something different. i do see that democrats will jump on it because he mentions joe biden and hunter biden and the investigations. but to the president s point, you don t see a direct quid pro quo in the language tying this to that. i also think that the ukrainian president appears to acknowledge that he wants to go into these investigations and our reporting is that he may, in fact, say something about that today that they are going to continue these investigations that were dropped after that prosecutor sandra: they will be meeting
gop will say it s not clear and that s your interpretation of it, right? the mention of javelin was by president zelenskiy. we had president trump saying i wouldn t say it s reciprocal. things are happening, not good. talking about other countries, united states has very good to ukraine. democrats will see that as him implying a form of pressure. i want to point out that same subject to interpretation we ve seen with the hunter biden situation that was also covered in here which is that the argument by the democrats already is that the ukrainian probe was shelved before the actions by the vice president. that hunter was never accused of wrongdoing by ukrainian authorities and that prosecutor was widely criticized by the west as being and failing to tackle corruption. they re seeing all of this as the complete opposite the gop will. final point again we have not yet moved for articles. there has been no vote. and just like in august what chairman nadler said to cnn was we ll figure it o
represent impeachable offenses. i m speaking only of these newest allegations. i think that s an important thing to discuss for those of us who are talking about the seriousness of these allegations, the need for further investigations, the need to understand if these allegations are true or false. it is specific to this threat because this is a national security priority. if these allegations are true, this is a grave moment for our country. if they are not true, we want to insure that every person in this country and around the world know that. bill: i m hearing a lot of ifs in that. republicans would allege ever since the morning after the election the democrats have wanted to get this president out of office. i know you are well aware of that. but in may of 2017, this is just one. congressman from louisiana, roll this. i rise today, mr. speaker,
i also think it s important on the d.o.j. analysis that we should also go through with a fine tooth comb. they say the president has not spoken to the attorney general about investigating biden. has not asked the a.g. to contact ukraine. and that barr has not communicated with ukraine on this or any subject. the president says this once in this phone call. sandra: it s number 6. might as well put it on the screen. this is the president talking about giuliani and their phone call will take place. i will have mr. giuliani give you a call to the ukraine president and i m also going to have attorney general barr call and we ll get to the bottom of it. i m sure you will figure it out. that s what i was referencing. zelenskiy is the person, the president of ukraine, who brings up giuliani first in this conversation and mentions that investigation. he brings him up.