this information to congress if it s urgent and serious. there s no discretion. congress used that word on purpose because, you know, whistleblower allegations are very sensitive and so it has to be handled in a particular way. here the law said it s got to be given to the intelligence committees. and what trump did or trump s by the way, this is trump s own inspector general. this is his guy he appointed. and that inspector general said, whoa, this is really serious and urgent and has to be turned over to congress. what they then did was interpose what used to be an elite part of the justice department, the office of legal counsel, which act as a kind of a judge for internal executive branch disputes. and those folks for years have been since trump has gotten into office have just been allowing the president do whatever he wants and saying things like he can t be indicted and, you know, there s all sorts of presidential pererogatives, you can t commit obstruction of
this is a very dishonest thing that joe biden did. he s using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me. and i m not even looking to hurt him, to be honest. he needs all the help can he get. trump s doing this because he knows i ll beat him like a drum. we begin the week at a remarkable point in congress. the white house trying to hamper congress by silencing a whistleblower who warned of presidential misconduct. as the washington post framed it over the weekend, trump s sense of himself as above the law has been reenforced throughout his timing in office. as detailed in the mueller report, he received help from a foreign adversary in 2016 without legal consequence. he sought to thwart the russia investigation and possibly obstruct justice without consequence. through the government he has earned profits for his businesses without consequence.
hunter biden s work and that it didn t create a conflict of interest since he was a private person. president trump and his lawyer, rudy giuliani, have suggested that biden pushed for the firing of ukraine s general prosecutor to halt an investigation into the company. that s a lie because the journal reports that the prosecutor had actually, quote, dragged his feet on those investigations, western diplomats said, and effectively squashed one in lond i on by failing doe operate with authorities. they say ukraine s government was slow to fire the prosecutor despite warnings from sbairm international monetary board.
well, and, jon meacham, what great illumination we have into the soul, not of america, but the soul of the republican party. you have one republican after another trying to brush aside the fact that their president, the commander and chief, spoke to a foreign leader eight times and intimidated him eight times to use his personal lawyer to dig up dirt in a foreign country against a domestic rival, eight times. mitt romney even came out. it s surreal. all of it is so surreal and all of it eventually will damage the republican party in next year s election. but mitt romney said, well, if donald trump actually did speak to a foreign power to have them dig up dirt, that would be very troubling. the wall street journal reported even before that tweet that it happened eight times. and donald trump admitted that
to continue towards victory unless we raise about $2 million before the end of this quarter. so senator booker, my wife and i have seven children, a couple of grandchildren, my wife and i, we obviously have a shelf life. i m concerned about our grandchildren. yes. why should i send you a hundred dollars or a million dollars? what are you going to do for them? well, first and foremost we desperately need a leader in america that can unite the democratic party. we win when we have movement like elections. not trying an gu lagt ones just to beat donald trump. donald trump is the floor, it s not the sooelg ceilinceiling. i want to unite americans to the common cause to deal with those problems that the future really is starring at from climate change to just an economy that doesn t work like it did for my parents. 90% of baby boomers did better economically than their parents. for millennials it s down to