Report to congress. By the way, an ig appointed by this president , who looked at this evidence and established in his view this was credible and urgent. Belying the point that somehow this was a rogue operator. If you dont mind, if i can follow up, we know from the New York Times reporting last night that the department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, his memo, in part, concluded that this document, after reading this document, its a partisan person. Its somebody who doesnt like the president. That is part of the reason why initially he said to the administration, we dont have to give this to congress. The question is, does that even matter . Lets say thats true. Lets say this person voted for voted against donald trump. Does it matter . Hold that thought. Listen to this line. This is remarkable. This is from the classified appendix. This is very important. I quote, according to white house officials i spoke with, this was, quote, not the first time under this administration that
the current hysteria has something else in common with the russia hoax. back then they accused of trump campaign of colluding when the democrats were colluding with russi russians. today, they accuse the president of pressuring ukrainians to take actions that would help himself or hurt his political opponents. yet, there are numerous examples of democrats doing the exact same thing. joe biden bragged that he extorted the ukrainians into firing a prosecutor who happened to be investigating biden s own son. three democratic senators wrote a letter pressuring the ukrainian general prosecutor to reopen the investigation.
the current hysteria has something else in common with the russian hoax. back then they accused the trump campaign of colluding with russians when the democrats themselves were colluding with russians and preparing the steele dossier. today they accuse the president of pressuring ukrainians to take actions that would help himself or hurt his political opponents. yet there are numerous examples of democrats doing the exact same thing. joe biden bragged that he extorted the ukrainians into hiring a prosecutor who happened to be investigating biden s own son. three democratic senators wrote a letter pressuring the ukrainian general prosecutor to reopen the investigation into