usa today opinion. jon gruden s emails, they are a sign of societal problems. thank you. forced out oi trump supporters and replaced by someone who posts election conspiracies. that election official speaks out next right here next.
distinguishes us and sets us apart from the rest of the world, which is that we can freely, democratically, choose those who will represent us, participate in our elections, and guide the course of our country, that that has been so badly undermined by president trump, who s using this position of public trust, which is not his. it was granted to him temporarily by the american people, to call on a foreign power to involve themselves in our election, to dig up dirt on a potential political rival. there must be consequence or this will set a new precedent that some people really are above the law in this country. so i believe in my fellow americans. that they re going to ask their representatives, their senators, and yes, joy, to answer your question, i do think there are republicans who will listen to their constituents, know that their re-election is on the line if they don t do the right thing. and perhaps even more important than that, their legacy, the way that history will judge t
have family members who grew up in countries like the congo, where you run against the president, you get and that person gets elected, then you end up in jail, that is usually not the way it happens in the united states. your thoughts? oh, man, joy. i mean, there s so much wrong with this story, i don t even know where to begin. the first thing is is, you know, you would hope that trump would have had a newer, fresher playbook than going back to but, her e-mails. but he doesn t. we ll probably hear the muslim ban tomorrow and birthright citizenship should be ended on tuesday and the same list of distractions. but the story cannot hide from the fundamental thing that s happened last week, because of this brave whistle-blower. because what this whistle-blower discovered and told to the american people, ultimately, in the report that came out on thursday, is that the president, as president, not as a private citizen during a campaign or something else, he went and asked a foreign p
and presumably they took the best summary they could. a lot ofwhat if the full voi trump comes out and what does fox news do then? that is moment where inside fox has a lot of confusion. a lot of people in the newsroom understands. they understand the gravity of this. the president of the united states using or foreign policy to leverage a foreign country to take out arrival. that s a very simple story. that even a fox audience can understand. what they are looking at now is that basically trying to distract, we see this morning the washington post reported the state department is still investigating hillary s e-mails. they re going to say look over here and not over here. this story is so easily understood. i don t know if the reality and distortion can work. and going back into history,
beto o rourke has been calling for donald trump s impeachment long before the whistle-blower complaint came out. but this week, he became the first candidate to call on trump to resign from office. joining me now is 2020 presidential candidate and congressman beto o rourke. thank you very much for being here. good morning. good morning, good morning. so you have called on donald trump to resign. is this specifically in your view over the national security threat presented by what the whistle-blower revealed vis-a-vis his call to the president of ukraine? this is about the national interest, about making sure that a country that has never been more divided is able to come back together again and to heal. it s about knowing the facts now beyond a shadow of a doubt. we have the reconstructed transcript or call notes from the call between president trump and president zelensky of ukraine, from july. we have the whistle-blower s accounts. we have the understanding that there are many