to weaponize their own political opposition research and false narratives. you know, a lot of the story of the trump presidency has been about foreign influence. that was really the main part of volume one of the mueller report. it was about foreign influence and the 2016 campaign s openness to receiving that foreign influence. what we ve seen be uncovered about the summer and the early fall of 2019 is that pattern continuing. the trump campaign, this time the trump 2020 campaign, willingly wanting foreign assistance and embracing and trafficking in conspiracy theories that are feeded by foreign influence and foreign governments hostile to the united states interest. and dr. fiona hill is a subject matter expert on ukraine, on russia, on that region of the world. and i think her testimony is going to be incredibly
compelling and a real warning about the current situation that the united states is in. and the president is using his very powerful use of social media over 60 million followers, i think, and that s something that we see that we worry about. those of us in the national security space that we worry about authoritarian governments using technology, using social media to influence how their citizens are thinking about things. and so it s very concerning. certainly is. just to put it another way. what did the president always say? no collusion and no obstruction. what we have seen with ukraine is collusion, again, between the united states and a foreign government to try to help him win the election. and obstruction. no witnesses produced voluntarily. no documents produced voluntarily. collusion and obstruction, it s what happened with mueller and it s what happened with ukraine. everybody stick around. there s a lot more we re following. the arrivals of dr. fiona hill
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not only about what happened with ukraine but give insight into the president s mind-set on russia because you saw what manu said about her opening statement where she said she wasn t going to be a party to this conspiracy theory that it was ukraine that interfered in the election and not russia. the main person pushing that is the president himself who says he believes ukraine tried to take him down in the election. it is an interesting set of defenses that the president doesn t know better than to think ukraine was involved with the 2016 election. he doesn t know better than to discuss foreign policy with someone that he barely knows. it s interesting. kaitlan, thanks very much. back with me, cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser and cnn legal analyst ross garber. he teaches impeachment law at tulane law school. i mean, ross, that s essentially how they are trying to get him out of the necessary mind-set here for being party to a bribe
embassy in washington saying, what s up with the aid? one of the lessons, one of the things we ve learned from these two weeks of hearings is we ve seen the republican talking points disintegreat one by one. laur cooper, one of the talking points was the ukrainians department even know the aid was being withheld so it couldn t be an exchange. here on the very same day as the notorious phone call between the two presidents we know the ukrainians were saying, where is the money that congress appropriated? where is the money that is going to save the lives of ukrainian soldiers on the front line against the russian separatists? so that talking point falls apart, just like the no firsthand testimony talking point falls apart. just like the talking point that, well, the ukrainians got the money anyway so what s the