Joining us tonight. See you at 00. Tonight, the white house transcript released. The president saying to a foreign leader, id like you to do us a favor. President trumps phone call with the president of ukraine. In that call, urging him to open an investigation connected to his political opponent, joe biden. Noting in the conversation the u. S. Had done a lot for ukraine. And tonight, the timing. The president and the ukrainian leader were set to meet today, even before the headlines broke. And so they did. What they said. And President Trump before the cameras just moments ago, furious Speaker Pelosi has taken this very rare step. Jon karl and Mary Bruce Standing by. Also breaking tonight, the whistleblowers report that started it all. The person within the Intelligence Community who was so concerned. That report has now arrived in congress. What it reveals and what weve learned. Also tonight, 24 hours after President Trump spoke of irans, quote, blood lust, tonight, the president of
Of law and our fierce constitutional patriotism. Now, it looked like President Trump might get away with his ukraine shakedown. After all most americans didnt know anything about it and the few who learned of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. President trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I count 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes. There was 17. And i counted dozen Career State Department and National Security officials who served republican and democratic president s alike over decades who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security council staffers, hill, vindman, morrison and maguire came
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Ambitions. Our selfrespect. Our love of freedom and the rule of law. Our fierce constitutional patriotism. Now, it looked like President Trump might get might get away with his ukraine shakedown. After all, most americans didnt know anything about it. And the few who learned of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. Fr President Trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I count 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes, there were 17. And i count a dozen Career State Department and National Security officials who served republican and democratic president s alike, over decades, who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security councils staffers, hill,
vindman, morrison, and mcguyer, came forward to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as so
Figures constitutional patriotism. It look like President Trump might get away. Most americans didnt know anything about it in the few who knew of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. President trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I account for 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes, there were 17. I counted 17,000 officials who served republican and democratic president s alike who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security staffers came forward
to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as soon as they learned about it. Didnt they can make mr. Goldman . Morrison and vindman went to the lawyers. Yes. That move me a lot. My father was a staffer on the National Security council under President Kennedy and he said the most important
that there was any review or any investigation of any sort related to the ukraine aid. and isn t it also true that the defense department actually determined not to conduct a review on ukraine after the president froze the military aid because ukraine had already met all of the corruption benchmarks in may of 2019? yes. and everyone involved in ukrainian policy believed that they were on the right path and president zelensky in particular. in addition to ukraine having satisfied all of the relevant corruption assessments prior to u.s. military aid being withheld, there is significant witness testimony that both the state department and the ukrainian embassy actually advised that a white house meeting with president zelensky would help further an anti-corruption agenda, correct. both the anti-corruption agenda and the aggression fighting fighting at gression from russia. and, in fact, president trump s budget actually cut funding for fighting corruption