Everything is on the up and up, if this was a peft call, you would want even to go and tell your story and the fact they havent done so to me is incredibly telling. Mark, garrett, who i hope is getting a chance to read through these 17 pages of the summary, the preface to the report. Ive asked you this before. Listen, if theres no wrong doing and perry or mulvaney wanted to fund the president , republicans, you got your shot to call some people. Over to katy tur. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Were following Breaking News at this hour. The Intelligence Committee has just released its report on the impeachment inquiry. House democrats say in no Uncertain Terms the president personally solicit Election Interference from a foreign governmecountry, quote, the evi overwhelming and so, too, is the evidence of his obstruction of congress. Joining me now is garrett and
jake. Also with us, former intel staffer, mika. Everybody, welcome. Garrett, you were just talking with stephanie and al
a corrupt country and the president was very interested in corruption. because this statement talks about corruption in general, the initial draft system, the giuliani volcker and he s a ukrainian official, the statement takes it a step further and mentions those two, mentions burrisma, the 2016 election. the same thing the president mentioned on the call. how can you argue it was just a one off when it keeps coming uch over and over and over again. we saw this in am ambassador taylor s testimony where he was saying look, we tried to get a generic anticorruption statement out that would have been consistent with our long-term policy, but that wasn t good enough. they wanted a mention of burisma. one of the few things that was omitted from that initial call record was that actually zelensky said back to trump when he says biden, yes, we will look
of the screen, you can see a better version of the copy and the understood line in black. so giuliani and sondland added this. correct. this again goes to did you want to clean up corruption in certain part of the world r or were you going after the bidens and when you had a statement on the left that talked about just cleaning up corruption, it says quote, on the left, complete a transparent unbiased investigation of all available facts. that s more defensible. that wasn t good enough. they wanted burisma in it and the u.s. allies here of the president apparently according to this, wrote it. mika, they say that donald trump just mepgsed biden in that call with president zelensky on the 25th, he mentioned biden in passing. it was not a big thing, not to be taken too seriously, but even if it was, it was perfectly acceptable to be looking into biden and burisma because it was
into burisma. so it s not like this is some in passing curious reference to biden that had never come up before. the three amigos has been talking to him to make it clear this isn t about corruption generally. this is about an investigation into one american citizen. not the whole situation in ukraine and that person happens to be the son of the president s most feared political rival. i want to ask a question about mike pence. but first, garrett, you want to jump in on these phone calls? there s another set of call logs in here that are notable. nunes in april when giuliani was first stating to get on the ground in the ukraine and talk publicly about the investigation into the bidens, there s a several minute call with nunes
i will read from that transcript. the president keeps saying read the transcript. president trump said to president zelensky, there s a lot of talk about biden s son that biden stop the prosecutor and a lot of people want to find bought that. so whatever you can do with the attorney general, he s talking about william barr, would be great. biden went about bragging he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. of course there s rudy giuliani who is roaming all over kiev in ukraine with operatives trying to establish some political theory for the president. this isn t about corruption. it s about a political agenda of the white house. and rudy giuliani, how much should it matter what giuliani tweeted this week, which was everything i did, i did for the president, my client. i was working as his attorney, and that s it. well, of course he s going to try to find that defense to avoid any testimony. but i think everyone knows his role, and the pre