Dispute. Now turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator with murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released so he calls the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said im not ready to lift the aid. They had this Senator Johnson, he writes a tenpage letter, very detailed, and he gives some remarkable detail and i would like to read it. Its on page 6. I this is Senator Johnson speaking, he said i asked him whether there was some kind of
arran arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. Without hesitation, Senator Johnson says, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed and he started cursing. He said, no way. President trump said no way. I would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reactionnt here was adamant, vehe
arran arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. without hesitation, senator johnson says, president trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed and he started cursing. he said, no way. president trump said no way. i would never do that. who told you that? and senator johnson goes on to say that president trump s reactionnt here was adamant, vehement and angry. senator johnson goes on to say that as of august 31st, the president told him, but i m you re goingim to like my decisn in the end. that s very important context on what the president s state of mind was as of august 31st. right. fully expected, do you agree, that the aid would eventually be released after the 55 day pause, right? yes. absolutely. yes. ite want to thank you all for yr
hillary clinton? no, i don t think it is solutio collusion. i don t admire it, but someone says i have information on an opponent, unless there is an arran arrangement. it is unwise, but i don t see it part of the crime. it is part of the counter intelligence investigation, because the value and knowing whether or not a government had sw sway over the son of a presidential candidate. you absolutely want to gather all of the facts in terms of the depth of the relationship and so farther. this appears to be a one off as opposed to collusion which is let s get together and we re going to work together for a particular purpose kwh ask to influence an american election. bob mueller had 20 months or so
that that is exactly what was happening, there was a formal arran arrangement, and michael cohen would work with him to make sure that they didn t show up in the news. i will stick to the ones that i reported about, but this was certainly a pattern. you also are not surprised by the report that there was a safe with secrets about the now president of the united states and other celebrities as well. a lot of employees knew about the safe, the documents like the deal with the doorman were in that safe for awhile. it was a physical old safe. it is almost cliche. there is an old safe where they kept stuff? that is exactly right. if you re a fras prosecutor,
davis when he met her? what do we mean by conscientious objection? it is one thing to say as we have during times of war that people can object to serving in the military. it is another thing for a general to decide in the middle of the battle i am a pacifist. i use that metaphor which is a strong metaphor to say that people who are public officials have certain responsibilities and now we do have an arran arrangement where kim davis doesn t have to issue the licenses but they have an issue. that was the ultimate compromise. thank you. appreciate you both being with us. still ahead breaking news. russia says it is targeting isis with today s air strikes in syria.