independent offense. in other words, say the president is found guilty or is found likely to have conducted this ukraine shakedown, trying to extract political dirt from a foreign government or trying to get the president of ukraine to make his statement about the bidens and so on. but then, if the president goes on to try to blockade witnesses in the process or intimidate witnesses, that becomes a separate count in the articles of impeachment. now and that s your and that is your committee, who eventually will be writing up the if there are, the articles of the charges, the articles of impeachment. would is your what i m not clear on the reporting so far, and this is obviously coming in, is this is coming from the house s general counsel, saying that the house is investigating, is it one of the committees that you re on that s investigating this? judiciary or oversight? well, yes, the special counsel, mueller in his report
pelosi is using the word bribery specifically and chairman schiff indicating bribery could be an impeachment charge against the president. is this essentially a rebranding of quid pro quo? bribery is now the new word that will be used because it is the word in the constitution? well, bribery and extortion are intricately interwoven in what the president did in the ukraine shakedown and essentially he took this $391 million that we voted into security assistance for a besieged foreign ally resisting russian aggression and occupation and said i ll give you this if you comply with all of my demands and all of my conditions. that s bribery or alternatively you can view it as a shakedown, as exercising coercive leverage to extort these conditions from the ukrainian government. in either, ven event, the presi has betrayed his oath of office
mr. ambassador. nicholas burns, thank you for coming on tonight. it was a good mood setter for the week. i think it is going to be a very strong week for the country. thank you for your reporting and aaron blake for just remember that word though. how they dropped that anyway. i want a favor from you, though. i think that s conditional. just guessing. coming up, who is going to take the fall for trump s ukraine shakedown? they ll try to blame somebody else. mr. i do it alone i don t have a team is now saying, what? me? could it be mick mulvaney the president s chief of staff who is at the center of the scandal? he is doing everything he can to even avoid testifying. plus nikki haley s stunning rel investigations in her book. she reveals rex tillerson and kelly as almost traders asking for her help to undermine president trump. it should have been go tell the president what your differences are and quit if you don t like what he s doing but to undermine a president is really a very
i know it s weird. i m just about in my third trimester in a few days. good for you. hanging in there. i was watching you today, and i m like, oh, my god, she s so pregnant. you look amazing. elliott was relieved to finally be able to acknowledge the pregnancy tonight. he was like, okay, it s safe to say you re pregnant. i was sitting on it for a while and afraid to go there. we re very happy for you. thank you. you re going to make a good mom a great mom again. thank you. let s get on to the business at hand. we re now learning from two senior white house officials that the ukraine shakedown was coordinated by acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. would mulvaney do that without president trump s direction, pamela? it s highly unlikely. let s break down what we already know. the reporting we have, don, is mulvaney froze the ukraine aid initially at the direction of president trump. so it would be highly unlikely that he would go rogue and work out t
subpoenaed to appear this morning. but a white house official says he s not expected to comply. remember mulvaney famously said this last month to be clear, what you described is a quid pro quo. we do that all the time with foreign policy. get over it. a top state department official, george kent, describes rudy giuliani, as a shadow secretary of state, pushing a, quote, campaign of lies. and he confirmed others testimony that the president held up vital military aid until he got what he wanted in the ukraine shakedown. he wanted nothing less than for president zelensky to go to a microphone and say, investigations, biden, clinton. a letter warning the president to cease and desist