ferguson effect. i want you to talk about that for just a second. we first talk about ferguson, let s make clear, that was a false narrative. hands up don t shoot never happened. obama s justice department said that. they cleared that officer of any wrongdoing. there was no hands up don t shoot, but it has carried on. that was not attacked right from the get go that that was a false narrative and now it s carried so every time there s a police involved shooting or use of force, of course it goes viral and there s journalists out there, and i pause to call them journalist because i m not quite sure they are but what they do is they right-click bait headlines, they don t include all the facts alter paint law enforcement as a bad guy but it s completely ridiculous and it needs to stop. they need to have objectivity when they talk about police officers. before we go, your legislation, what is it and when is it. it criminalizes and makes it a felony to throw any substance on a police
aid. on july 26 president zelensky meets with ambassador sondland and volker, makes no reference to a quid pro quo and a hold on aid. it s not until they read it in politico on august 29 that president zelensky and his team received confirmation that there s a hold on aid. i just want to ask you about the front end of that when he s talking about ukrainians never felt pressure, they didn t know the ukraine aid was being held up, do you buy that argument that they didn t feel pressure, that we should take their word for that? let s make clear, in july about the time of the july 25 phone call between president trump and president zelensky what the white house was saying is we want investigations in return for a meeting in the oval office of the white house. it was only later on in later in august and early september that the white house then began to say that we have to have those investigations if you, president zelensky, want the meeting at the white house and military assistance
people who are want to participate in our democratic process, including democrats, republicans, independence, our law enforcement, intelligence and military communities. nicole, let s make clear what s happening here, the president is willing to risk the lives of the people who are defending our country so he can spin a political yarn to feed, as ron noted, political conspiracy theories. because i guess he thinks it helps him politically. that is a dereliction of duty, that is an abuse of office. i think the congressional intelligence and judiciary committees have to be all over this one. they have to call to the hill the leaders of the intelligence community and the justice department and ask them exactly what motivated this unprecedented power grab. the dni, dan coates weighed in with a statement this afternoon, i m confident the attorney general will work with the intelligence community in
and lost the $50 million race and he was everybody s favorite flavor as we said at the time. bill: you still have the race getting a lot of attention. we ll see how it goes and you ll be there later today. let s make clear, the democratic candidate is making joyful noises about aluminum and steel and has been publicly crit calf critically of the minority nancy pelosi. bill: you were in the news and made an endorsement for the alabama senate race and ultimately it s the president s call you were punished for this and whatever punishment will or will not come from this, as a frame the question, it happened twice in the obama years and there was no punishment given out. we have spoken about this.
making comments about one another, and it was an interesting moment, i think, between these two leaders. jim, thank you so much. i m joininged by congresswoman jackie spears. she s on the house intelligence committee. thank you for being here. let s make clear, have you heard of any evidence or any suggestion that great britain or any ally might have wire tapped president trump or trump tower? no. no, no, no. you know, we have spent so much time on this spur yus allegation by the president that it s really affecting our ability to do our work. it s creating, as we have just seen, an international incident. there is no truth to anything the president has said relative to that. and i might add, right now president obama has a really good slander case because there s much malice associated