could it be because he exonerates the president on the main impeachment charges. this week i read the volker transcript. page 36, volker states clearly there was nothing link again policy and investigation. page 41 he explains it was advisors to president trump, not the president you. they wanted to get president trump to view the ukrainian president more favorably. according to volker it was the ukrainians who wanted to be connected to rudy giuliani. volker says aid was held up for a number of different reasons. page after page. 360 pages exonerating the president. but somehow despite being one of theirbu precious career diploma. ruling class state tv barely
ukraine aid and everything was contingent on this public declaration for the investigations which is democrats saying today yet more evidence of a quid pro quo. now republicans are still trying to push back saying that the president did not in their view order sondland or make any direct linkage to to ambassador sondland himself to hold up the aid coming from mark meadows, a top republican on the oversight committee who said this in the aftermath of the transcript release. any linkage that has been alleged obviously is based on many times second or thirdhand information, either rudy giuliani or people believing that they understood what rudy giuliani might have wanted. but i could tell you, each and every time that the conversations were conducted with the president of the united states or the vice president of the united states, there was no
rand paul demanding that the media reveal the whistle-blower s identity. i say tonight to the media, do your job and print his name. reporter: while senator mitt romney is one of the lone republicans saying that is going too far. my view is whistle-blowers, particularly those blowing whistles on action within the government should be allowed to remain confidential. so going after the whistle-blower i think is misdirected. reporter: trump supporters showed up at a rally wearing read the transcript t-shirts when the president said to the leader of ukraine, i would like you to do us a favor though. but it should be noted that document released by the white house was a memorandum of a telephone conversation, not a verbatim transcript of the discussion. mitch mcconnell is doubtful the case against the president will result in mr. trump s removal from office. i will say, i m pretty sure how it is likely to end. if it were today, i don t think
president s legal standing to keep several people from testifying. it just digs a different hole in terms of obstruction of justice. reporter: sources say it was bolton who described mulvaney and european union bast gordon sondland as cooking up a quote, drug deal, linking aid to investigating the president s domestic rivals. last month mulvaney conceded to reporters it was a quid pro quo. i have news for everybody, get over it. there is going to be political influence in foreign policy. reporter: the white house issued a statement on the transcript saying both transcripts show there is less evidence for this illegitimate impeachment sham than previously thought but still the president is focused on the whistle-blower saying damaging information is about to be released. you haven t heard about the whistle-blower because the whistle-blower said a lot of things that weren t so good, folks. you re going to find out. reporter: the president s defenders are going further with
there is any question it would not lead to a removal. reporter: which may explain why the president keeps on joking he may never give up the job. what they don t know is that when we hang it up, in five years, or nine years, or 13 years, or maybe 17 years. or maybe if i still have the strength, 21 years. reporter: one document the public may not get to see any time soon, the transcript of vice president mike pence s phone call with the leader ukraine. sources tell cnn the administration is not likely to release that transcript even though aides to the vice president are adam ant there is nothing to hide. wolf. jim, thank you. jim acosta at the white house. more on all of this. joining us now, democratic congressman john garamendi of california, a member of the