it turns out that if these reports are to be believed, the whistle-blower reached out to his staff before the whistle-blower even filed the official complaint, with the inspector general. that happened august 12th. the public, the nation did not find out about this until almost a month later. adam schiff used that month to lay the groundwork for what would ultimately be this ukrainian issue, and he exploited it. you go on his twitter. he suddenly developed this new fascination with ukraine and what rudy giuliani was doing and the fact that the administration was withholding ukrainian aid. he was building this up. and i think that makes a lot of americans question his motives in this because he wasn t being straight up about what he knew. he was using it for political gain. paul: and i guess the democrats are saying motives aside, the facts are the facts, and this is still an abuse of power.
kind of inquiry. that s what rudy was doing. paul: kim, i want you to focus on the head of the intelligence committee, adam schiff, and the question of the time line about what he knew and when he knew it. does it matter if he had an early indication before the whistle-blower complaint was released about what was in it? yeah, of course it matters. it matters because it gets to the legitimacy of this probe. it turns out that if these reports are to be believed, the whistle-blower reached out to his staff before the whistle-blower even filed the official complaint, with the inspector general. e public, the nation did not find out about this until almost a month later. adam schiff used that month to lay the groundwork for what would ultimately be this ukrainian issue, and he exploited it. you go on his twitter. he suddenly developed this new fascination with ukraine and what rudy giuliani was doing and the fact that the administration was withholding ukrainian aid.
and that the investigation was very important for him as well. adding i guarantee that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly. that i can assure you. okay, handling investigations openly and can candidly. sounds like an evil plot. how nefarious of them. there is no quid pro quo and the president never hinted ukrainian aid would be withheld if a further investigation wasn t done. at this point i think it s pretty obvious that the democrats overplayed their hand big time. they based their impeachment move on a whistle-blower who didn t even hear the conversation and who grossly exaggerated what happened in it. which brings me to point number two. the president not only did nothing wrong, he went above and beyond his duty to his office, hoping to discover what happened in the lead up to the 2016