president trump, and you know, under the obama administration this was very much carried by his ambassadors to ukraine who have long played a strong role in kiev in working with politicians there to try and convey the message of, look, you need to clean up corruption. what was then vice president joe biden s role? so joe biden was obama s point person in ukraine, and he really carried that message for the president. he also oversaw the u.s. response perhaps not the u.s. response but the u.s. messaging when it came to conflict in ukraine, the russian annexation of crimea, it was 2014 where you had russia lops off a chunk of ukraine, annexes crimea and then the war begins in eastern ukraine in the spring of that year. it was the first hot war in the region in an extremely long time, and you know, biden really carried obama s messaging on that in the region. was it only the united states that was worried about corruption in ukraine at this point? no, absolutely not. i
i m executive vice president of external affairs at the center for american progress and i have the immense honor of welcoming all of you here today. as we all know robert mueller will appear tomorrow before members of congress to detail how the russian government worked to sabotage the 2016 elections and how donald trump and his allies sought to aid, abet and cover up this operation as seemingly at every turn. the president has lied over and over again, and claiming that the mueller report found no evidence of collusion and tomorrow the american people will hear what the special counsel actually uncovered. this time around those findings won t only be contained within the margins of the 448 page legal document but this time around the public will hear the fact directly from robert mueller himself. facts which are utterly and unquestionably damning. the mueller report describes at least 37 meetings and 272 contacts in total between russia linked operatives in the trump campai
[inaudible conversations] [cheers and applause] . good afternoon. the center of american progress. robert mueller will appear tomorrow before members of llngress to detail how the government worked to sabotage the 2016 election and donald trump andd his allies to aid and abet and cover-up the operation at every turn. the president has lied over and over again and tomorrow the american people with the special counsel. this time around they will be contained within the margins of the legal documents. this time around we hear directly from himself that is utterly damning. mueller described at least 37 meeting 272 contacts in total like the trump campaign that to the highest echelon of the trump campaign and through the inner circle including donald trump junior. campaign manager paul manafort chaired internal polling and political strategies with the russian agent. and with that assault and integrity of our democracy. yet not a single member of the trumpe campaign reported the
that was the day was the first house intelligence committee hearing and a day known for james comey announcing there was indeed, an fbi investigation into the trump campaigns ties to russia. it gave a press into opening statement in which you outlined what we knew at the time on march 20th and when you asked is it possible that all of these events and reports are completely unrelated and that nothing more than an entirely on happy coincidence and you said yes, it is possible but it is also possible and maybe more than possible that they are not coincidental and not disconnected and that the russians used the same techniques to corrupt u.s. persons that they employed in europe and elsewhere. we simply do not know not yet and we owe it to the country to find out. two and half years later what did you find out? was this all just a random coincidence? no, it clearly wasn t. if i knew then that we would find evidence in writing of the russians offering dirt on hillary clinton is
after writing a best-selling memoir called hillbilly ellergy, he feared donald trump, and j.d. vance told a slate reporter that donald trump was, quote, leading the white working class to a very dark place. again, those are direct quotes from a man named jd vance. now jd vance is now after last night the republican candidate for senate in ohio thanks almost entirely to an endorsement from the ex-president that propelled him from also-ran third place in some polls to the top of of a very crowded field as the bull work told me in the ohio times, at this time, there s no moving past trump. he s re-made the republican party in his image and many republican voters now crave his particular brand of combative politics described again by j.d. vance, as, quote, cultural heroin by, quote, america s hitler. that particular brand of combative politics fueled by disinformation and paranoia and now best embodied by one jd vance has nothing but contempt for our democracy. vance has peddle