justification for the president to be calling foreign leaders and asking for, in this case, more dirt on his political opponents in the next election, because of what happened in 2016. so, they re using this to prop open a wide door. susan, is this a political move by the u.s. attorney in connecticut and william barr, to try to kind of keep the 2016 investigation lingering long enough for it to be a factor in the 2020 race? absolutely. and, according to julia s reporting, which is amazing, is they re going to keep using this as a talking point. they can now say there s an ongoing investigation. and if they are, in fact, expanding it, they re looking for they are looking for a problem. they are looking for something to hang their hat on because everything is going so poorly for the president. all bill barr has ever done since he was put in this investigation is done things to make the president happy. the president needs someone to
acting on behalf of the president as opposed to the land. we re trying to attempt to reverse engineer the 2016 election, and that investigation by robert mueller, point to these ideas that have been on the conservative fringes, the idea that ukraine was involved. they might have the hillary clinton or dnc server. there s no evidence of that. to the idea we ve seen rudy giuliani do this all the time as well, to make things murky, to throw stuff at the wall, to confuse people. if they can go back and talk 2016 and get ukraine involved. they re doing this for voters. it s not about investigation. it s about voters, trying to suggest there was no wrong doing previously. did not find that there was collusion. this is a way to excuse what the president s behavior is now with ukraine. to excuse that phone call. to excuse the request he made of
he hasn t done that many briefings before he can spar, he can joust, well spoken, verbost. he likes it this one didn t go very well and made a real mess it, particularly on the idea of quid pro quo. immediately those in the west wing, some of whom were already soured on his handling of the impeachment inquiry to this point started suggesting maybe this is time for him to go. department of justice and jay sekulow immediately distance themselves from what he was doing and he to put out a statement with the president s blessing try to clean it up. he was on the sunday talk shows basically saying he didn t say what we all heard him say. it was recorded. he made the mistake of saying it on liefb television. where does he stand tonight? our latest reporting was that he was already in some sort of jeopardy before this performance, but at least for now, though the president was not happy with what happened the other day, he s not immediately at risk of being dismissed in
congratulations to you, yamiche, on the honor. we re all very proud of you. thank you very much. mick mulvaney s performance. i wanted to ask you if you or anyone else has figured out why mick mulvaney decided to have this news conference, throw this hand grenade into washington, d.c. and try to clean up the mess. it s been a strange couple of days for the acting chief of staff. he went out with the president s blessing. the president was on his way to texas for event and rally. vice president and secretary of state were on the way to turkey to try to broker the cease fire that s apparently not holding in syria. mu mulvaney was tasked, thinking that the president should not do so, that it would not be well received, successingses from democrats and critics that it was violating the clause. then, of course, he received questions on a number of topics.
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