lawmakers head home for thanksgiving break. the hearings did not sway, as far as we know, a single republican. with me now, ro khanna, who serves on the budget committee. thanks for being here. thanks to have me on. he still wants to discuss this with his constituents and colleagues, hasn t made a decision to impeach. have you seen enough evidence to impeach the president? i have. i think the evidence is overwhelming. the president pressured zelensky to dig up dirt on joe biden and when would aid. to me, that s an impeachable offense. as you know, your republican colleagues noted, and to be fair, it s largely because the white house didn t allow witnesses to testify, but still a direct line hasn t been drawn
anda thoritatively about the pressure campaign waged against ukraine. they described an effort to leverage that country to deliver the politically motivated investigations the president wanted. and it was gent that backdrop the star witness, ambassador taylor, dropped an important new revelation, a bombshell really linking the president directly to that scheme. one day after the president asked ukrainian president zelensky to dig up dirt on his political opponents a member of taylor s staff heard a conversation. and here s how taylor described what he heard. in the presence of my staff at a restaurant ambassador sondland called president trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. the member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations.
they re trying to prevent any strong hit from being landed. here s where i think there is an opportunity from democrats that i saw today that may have been missing. and it s this, an impeachment argument requires the constitutional case and political case. the constitutional case is the facts right here and the president wanted an investigation into the bidens. and the constitutional case is about trump. the political case is about the american people and about the voters. and i think the case that democrats could make to the voters is, look, trump tried to steal the next election from you. he tried to cheat by this next election by using foreign aid to dig up dirt on his opponent and tip the balance of the election in his favor. and secondly he jeopardized america s national security, not the ukraine s. and by bigt holding aid he emboldened russian aggression. and russia is our enemy, and the president didn t care. make the case about the american people as much as you make it about d
of our legal system. there was a lot of hype in the leadup to the mueller hearings and those did not work out as many of them say, going on wednesday? the difference here is this story is so simple and most people around the country know what happened. the president withheld aid from zelensky because he wanted zelensky to dig up dirt on joe biden and announced that protecttivelily. what s going to come out in the testimony by a few key witnesses is this wasn t just one phone call, this was a concerted effort for months to try to get dirt on joe biden. the case is simple and most people are going to understand what s going on. it s being reported that they will focus on the conspiracy theory that ukraine entered into
hype in the lead-up to the mueller hearings, and those certainly did not work out as many democrats had hoped they would with the testimony of robert mueller. what is the democrats plan going into the hearings on wednesday? well, the difference here is that this story is so simple, and most people around the country know what happened. the president withheld aid from zelensky because he wanted zelensky to dig up dirt on joe biden and announce that publicly. and you ve had witness after witness corroborate this. and what s going to come out in the testimony by a few key witnesses like ambassador taylor is this wasn t just one phone call. this was a concerted effort for months to try to get dirt on joe biden. so i think the case is simple, and most people are going to understand what went on. it s being reported that republicans as part of their strategy are going to focus on the conspiracy theory that ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, not russia, and push