Political correctness. Its available now wherever you get your podcasts. I hope you will join me as we aim to maybe rewrite, find a path in this world of modern rules. I hand you off to my friend and colleague back in action, katy tur. Teddy says hi and misses you. Tell him i said hey. Thanks, stef. Good afternoon. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. In washington where were live on capitol hill. Just a few minutes away President Trump faces a number of difficult headlines that all told paints a complicated picture for his 2020 prospects including a slew of new National Polls that show the president s approval below 40 . Economic anxiety appears to be the main factor for those low numbers, but the president doesnt want you to believe those numbers and frankly why should he . National polls did not predict the eventual outcome of 2016. So let us instead consider whats happening in two key
states. First North Carolina, where the republican Won Yesterdays special election in the ninth
ukraine. it started with the mueller report, which i think that people thought, okay, that was over. then ukraine just came out of nowhere. y you re looking at the standard fof a president. i think there s an abuse of pow power, there s obstruction of justice. you have a number of places to go with this that a broader than ukraine. ukraine is more narrow. i think the breaches and the things that this president has done are a lot bigger than just ukraine. you mentioned abuse of power, obstruction of justice, any other articles you would recommend? i think emoluments violati s violations. the fact that the secret service and other federal agencies had to spend millions of dollars since this presidency began at trump properties to protect the president and those are the places he goes, the emoluments
is legal, there is a mystery. one, why president trump ultimately released that military aid to ukraine that he held up for months, which cnn now reports came after a republican senator and the firing of the president s national security adviser. sara murray has done some terrific reporting on this. joins us now with more. what are you learning here? we know the president was under a lot of pressure pby the beginning of september to release this hold on funds. one of the last things he did before finally relenting was speaking to the senator from ohio. on this phone call on september 11th, he made the case that if you don t move to release this money now you are going to lose it because the fiscal year is going to end. ukraine is not going to end these funds and it is going to be a big problem. at the end of the call, the president hung up and he ended upturning to his aids and saying, okay, release the money. and this actually came as a
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surprise to officials from washington all the way to ukraine because the president had been so adamant for months on sitting on this aid and holding this money, john. so if you look at the calendar for september, it is so jam packed with these extraordinary developments. the president released the aid to ukraine the day after he fired john bolton, his national security adviser. so did one have anything to do with the other? this is obviously one of the questions investigators are going to be asking, if they can get john bolton in front of them. we don t have a clear answer to that at this point, but we do know that the timing is certainly interesting. we know that throughout this john bolton had been saying ukraine should get the money. he was adamant this money should be released and he was one of the people pressuring the president as well as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle saying what is the hold up here? just release these funds. and when we talk about time and this extr