when trump asks the president of ukraine for a favor and seas, he wants him to investigate the 2016 elections and the bidens, it s because rudy has been doing all of this leg work and feeding information to trump for months about that in the background and we ve heard in the witness testimonies from the transcripts that over and over again, rudy giuliani has inserted himself into the public diplomacy of the united states. people are referred to talk to rudy, referred to him when it comes to u.s. policy towards ukraine. we took a look at that and we wanted to get a sense for what has changed for rudy giuliani. i talked to rudy yesterday. he said up and down he never mixed his client business with the president s business. and he also i also asked him if he thought that president trump was going to turn on him and he said no, 100% he wasn t going to be a scapegoat. the president is loyal to him
crime, it is about the cover up. if we see big names like john bolten undermining the president s accounts of what happened, will that make the republicans take notice and do something? you just asked the question of the era. some moderate democrats, it could be about joe manchin in the end. this is all heading toward what we re seeing on the floor of the house, exactly 230 years since the first congress convened in new york. so 230 years and we have only done this three times, and each time we have done it has been a moment of great crisis. it is about the cold war, the fracturing of the congress, a
let s get into what it all means with a fantastic group starting us off, robert costa, a national political reporter, and moderator of washington leak. john mechum, a presidential historian and biographer. david jolly who is no longer affiliated with the republican party. first, does this resolution have what it takes to convince the public that this inquiry will be fair and open? it concentrates the entire inquiry into the house intelligence committee that shows speaker pelosi s strategy. we have seen in recent months with hearings and try to focus in, bring it back to foreign policy and about the president s conduct. it is as much about making sure the strategy is in place for the coming months as they bring more witnesses forward as it is for that public part of the
power. it is all of these other meetings that vindman, morrieso, they called the process unfair, and moments ago the president reiterated the prospect if is not a ver bait m pros prospect. but to exactly what he said. these 14 people or some of them go on to testify based on your reporting, aren t going to learn that it was more than this one phone call.
crime, they can attribute that they have come up empty, first they insisted the president is a russian agent, then a money launderer, a tax cheat, a fraudulent businessman. now they decided they don t like how he talks to foreign leaders but they have no evidence to support impeachment. all they have is the unconditional cooperation of the media and the advance to advance their preposterous narrative. if they had a real case, they would not be wasting time spoon feeding ridiculous attacks that include defamation and slander. what we re seeing among democrats on the intelligence committee down in the skiff right now is like a cult. these are a group of people loyally following their leader as he bounces from one outlandish conspiracy theory to