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Congressman ratcliffe who appears to be on another morning show at this moment. it seems to suggest the ukrainians were aware he says that taylor is not saying ukraine was aware the military aid was being withheld. it s the homer simpson presidency. taylor talked about yesterday about the officials in the ukrainian government that were informed by sondland realtime, notes, i mean. this is ludicrous, of course they knew. of course they knew. and a demand the ukrainian president appear on camera to discuss this investigation. claire, how would you like to be representing gordon sondland? how quickly would you want him to get back to clean up his testimony. clean up his stuff. it was interesting to me that he would make i wonder if he has a lawyer now and if that lawyer has malpractice coverage because it is really bizarre that he would go in and, you know, do you get to perjury? i don t know. clearly he misled the committee, ....
Intelligence community or an organization that the director of national one last point i would make with respect to you keep saying the president is not part of the intelligence community. i believe he is. the president, you agree, has the ability to declassify any single intelligence document. do you agree that s true? the president has original classification authority. then how is that person outside of the intelligence community? he is the president of the united states, above the entire executive branch. thank you. thank you, congressman. mr. ratcliffe. thank you, chairman. admiral, good to see you. you commanded s.e.a.l. team two and retired as an admiral in the navy. that s correct. despite the fact, after that service you became acting dni 23 days after the trump-zelensky call and four days after the whistle-blower made his or her complaint. you were subpoenaed before this ....
Exactly what president trump did in that conversation. so if the democrats are intent on impeaching the president for lawful conduct, be my guest. i yield back. thank you congressman ratcliffe. mr. heck. thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being here, sir. thank you very much for your service. i want to step back a little bit and put into perspective i think what s at stake here. obviously yesterday the white house released the transcript of that july 25th conversation between president trump and president zelensky. we now know that this phone call was indeed a part of the whistle-blower complaint. yesterday the chair at a press conference characterized the president s conversation in that call as a shakedown of the ukrainian leader, not suggesting it was a shakedown for either information or money, but instead was a shakedown for help to win a presidential election ....
Not want this career professional to take dan coats job and he didn t appreciate what coats did. he has a habit of installing acting directors or acting heads of cabinets, so that he can go no senate confirmation on those, but also that he can put somebody in place who will follow his lead. yeah. he just tried with the congressman ratcliffe. that didn t work so well. that lasted about 24 hours. no. what we re seeing is the systematic erosion to use a phrase of the deep state and it is now given way to what you might describe as a shallow state. where career professionals are leaving and they are being replaced by people who either don t have backgrounds, they re in acting positions and this is by people say like jared kushner, others at the white house, a lot of people at the state a lot of position at the state department are still unfilled. this is a way that you work around the bureaucracy. because the bureaucracy tends to be viewed with suspicion. ....
The president withdrew his nomination of congressman john ratcliffe last week. we know don jr. tweeted sue gordon was best friends with former cia director john brennan. so is this about the president having his allies? well, he clearly wasn t comfortable with director coats who came before her and it seems very clear he was not comfortable with her either. and didn t, you know, there had been this tense relationship with coats. she obviously worked very closely with him and was someone who he had advocated for taking the position. that probably didn t do her any favors. however, the president and the white house should have had in mind who they wanted their team to be. and they should have handled that and managed that in a way they could get it through. so the president decided he wanted congressman ratcliffe into this position. but the white house really did nothing to have an organized rollout and nomination for that process so when criticism began about his resume and his ....