to fend the russians off. that s problem number one. number two, that s widespread rampant corruption throughout the country and he doesn t want to anger president trump or the trump administration. now, it did seem to me that people here were pretty confident in the bipartisan congressional support to support ukraine and make sure that ukraine is able to fend off russia. but still, he s in he s doing a delicate dance. so he doesn t he doesn t want to offend president trump and he doesn t want to be brought into this scandal. the foreign minister today did tell me that somehow through all of this, americans are more interested in ukraine and they re looking to sort of take advantage of that. which was interesting. anna, you had a conversation with the u.s. charge defairs, bill taylor, so let s listen to what he had to say. president zelenskiy ran on
confirms it an a impeachment inquiry and all three others have allowed both sides to call witnesses. have allowed the white house to participate. that s not happening right now. and in fact, not only isn t it happening, but i think it s important for jim jordan to note what just started happening today in this committee. where they re trying to impeach a president behind closed doors without any due process. thank you, steve. i think most of you know that chairman schiff has prevented the witness from answering certain questions we have during the deposition. you know, one of the things you do in the depositions is you ask the basics, who, what, when where, why, when we asked the whistle-blower who he spoke to after important events in july, adam schiff said no, we won t let him answer the question. even at the start of the depositions you know this already, everyone at the
ramesh joins me now. thank you for being with us. as you pointed out in the commercial break, this is the 50th anniversary of the internet. today. the first electronic message was sent 50 years ago today. and if you were to poll people today, most people would say, look, this is fantastic, it has done terrific things, the internet. there s a lot of people who say it s wrecking part of our discourse and politic zps. right now we arrived at a moment where we re dependent on the internet, the internet is the vocabulary by which everything is expressed. get insurance through algorit algorithms. we experience news through the internet. yep. specifically through platf m platforms. now we re at a point where a concentrated set of a few private technology companies that the are not necessarily deeply educated in the public interest because they re technology companies, have become the places we go to for
two things. one was ending the war on the ukrainian soil and second was defeating corruption. he has done some very brave things on ending the war. and this message here, today, o component. developing the confidence of people here and people in the nongovernment so this is important. and the message, why did [ indiscernible ]. because this is close to the front lines. it s in the east. in the heart anna, tell us how bill taylor was even received at this event because he s gone back to his job after becoming a world famous figure because he s in the middle of this impeachment inquiry. well, there were hundreds of diplomats and businessmen from around the world and they have