Tweet and propo kbgate the idea that interference by russia was a hoax. And we all remember the debacle in helsinki, i wish i had heard just some of the righteous indignation that we had heard in the committee today when the president questioned that fundamental conclusion of our intelligence agencies. But of course they will silent when the president said that. They will show indignation today, but they will cower when they hear the president questioning the very conclusions that our Intelligence Community has reached. But we saw Something Interesting also today. My colleagues sought to use you, dr. Hill, to besmirch the character of Colonel Vindman. And i thought this was very interesting. It certainly wasnt unexpected i could not tell was very
interesting for this reason. They didnt really question anything Colonel Vindman said. After all what he said is what you said. He was in that July 10th Meeting. He heard the same quid pro quo, the same comments by sondland. If you want this m
because it resonates with me. when she was describing the fact that she s an immigrant and we are a nation of immigrants. she said this is what makes america great. because that is what makes america great. there is no need to make america great again. that s a good point. karine, i want you to pick up though on what she had to corroborate sondland s testimony yesterday by saying i realized in an instant this isn t a regular channel, there was the channel, it was directed by donald trump. gordon was answering to the president who had sent him on a domestic political errand. now this republican talking point that, oh, president set policy. this wasn t a policy he is set. this was a political hit job he ordered from his diplomatic core. yesterday we heard from gordon sondland who basically bought his way into power. today we heard from two witnesses who are experts in their field and they earned
issue and specifically rejected a policy proposal to separate family units. what s odd about that is they ended up separating family units. so i m not sure how she decided that wasn t a policy. and it became policy. it s trying to be so clever. by saying it s predelusional. that statement. that s right. the importance of this. the reason of all the lies administration has told the reason i really wanted to put this one in the spotlight and say this is not okay, is because of the deep damage to thousands and thousands of children. then the inspector general came out and said we have looked at the period before the formal policy was announced and in may. it begun in april the previous month of last year. he said it s possible there may have been thousands of other children that they couldn t even
way. more than anything, we need to stop the policy that s separating children from their families. that wasn t a policy developed by ice. that was developed by the trump administration and the president. he put it in place. he needs to end it. then we can have a real conversation about comprehensive immigration reform, reform of our immigration agencies and lots of change that needs to happen at ice and border patrol. do you think democrats fall for a trap in not having a fuller conversation? elizabeth warren said, are democrats falling for a midterm trap? i don t know. i think some people feel very strongly that the current operations at ice require immediate action such as getting rid of it and starting from scratch. most democrats understand that we have a responsibility to secure our borders, to execute our immigration laws in a humane way, that recognizes the right to seek asylum, that doesn t separate children from their families and that fulfills important functions at the
it s one hot mess, isn t it? it s a microcosm of the entire trump administration. and i think maggie haberman had it right last hour when she said for the first time it s going to be a defining moment for this president. it is exposing the weaknesses of this presidency at its very base level. chaos because the president decided, with the help of his favorite friend steven miller, to come up with this particular bit of strategy to go after people coming across the border. it didn t work. the optics were bad. they didn t tell us the truth about it. incident was chaos. first he said it was the democrats fault. then he said it was a policy that wasn t a policy. then made an executive order to change the policy. now you have 2,000 children not reunited with their parents. some of the sources i have in homeland security say quite bluntly and honestly, they re afraid they may never, some of