Thanks you for joining us this hour. Theres a lot going on. Fiona hill is going to be joining us live tonight. Fiona hill, of course, with senior director for russia and europe at the National Security council during the trump presidency, which means she had a somewhat terrifying Front Row Seat to some of the weirdest things and the u. S. President has ever tried to get away with. Fiona hill is here tonight, as there have been dramatic developments today about the informant who provided the central allegations at the heart of Congressional Republicans efforts to impeach President Biden this year. This informant today was sent to jail indefinitely by a federal judge in california. He is in jail awaiting trial. Prosecutors arrested and indicted him a week and a half ago, alleging that his statements to Law Enforcement about President Biden and his family not only were lies, but this man had been fed lies and disinformation about President Biden by Russian Intelligence. Despite those ties
Lose was reinforced by his rebuke on the steps of the United States Supreme Court today. Listen to the crowd shout vote him out as others booed. All vote him out vote him out vote him out vote him out vote him out vote him out vote him out heres the president s admission that he cant and wont win if the election is administered fairly and that he doesnt plan to accept the result. Reporter will you commit to making sure theres a peaceful transfer of power after the election . Well have to see what happens. Ive been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster. Reporter i understand that. People are rioting. Do you commit to make sure theres a peaceful transfer of power . Get rid of the ballots. Well have a very peaceful we wont have a peaceful. It will be a continuation. No evidence theres any problem with the ballots. The New York Times, mr. Trumps refusal to endorse the most fundamental tenant of american democracy as in president in memory would have is
Testifying about everything from the president s infamous phone call with ukraine to the shadow of the president , Rudy Giuliani, the president s personal attorney. Lets go to manu raju on capitol hill. I know youve been looking over vindmans transcript right now. What are you learning so far . Reporter its a significant transcript because this is a person who was on that july phone call, someone who serves on the National Council and is involved with the ukranian policy but someone who has serious concerns about the direction this administration was going and what they asked him to do, to investigate his political rivals. Were getting a picture of what happened in that phone call. In here vindman reveals that the acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, was involved in this ask, coordinated the ask of the ukranians to investigate the president s political rivals in exchange with a meeting the ukranians had sought at the white house. What vindman says here is he heard the ambassadors of t
Our allies or our onetime allies, the kurds, and contain isis. The kind of deal we already had really until last sunday. All of this began a week ago sunday with a much different telephone call with turkeys president. What was said remains unclear. But we do know the president agreed to pull out u. S. Troops from the region, essentially giving the green light to the longplanned turkish invasion of Northern Syria. This left our kurdish allies, key allies in the fight against isis, who fought and contained isis alongside u. S. Forces well, it left them stunned and surprised and exposed to turkish aggression. Republicans never ones to rock the boat were vocal in their denunciations. The question is did that bother the president . It must have because two days later he announced he was inviting turkeys president to the white house, which is not something you normally do with people you are angry with. That same day, he tweeted, quote, in no way have we abandoned the kurds, and yet we had.
Testify which will take time and take this into january or try do they try to do what hugo was saying and cram this forward? you don t get much information. maybe they try to keep the focus on feign no hil fiona hil. i agree with kristin if they don t bring in other big voices then they look like they like they want ex he diet something as opposed to get to the truth then they have a problem. mike: now it s time for candidate casino. and let s see where the panelists are putting their money this week. hugo? i m putting half the money, 50 bucks on pete buttigieg. he is ahead in iowa and new hampshire national polls don t count. that s whereby den is in the lead. if he wins those it changes the calculus. sanders in at 30 bucks. seems to me is the more authentic voice of the far left as i would call it. i don t give warren or biden more than $10 each. i think they are losing