Dispute. Now turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator with murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released so he calls the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said im not ready to lift the aid. They had this Senator Johnson, he writes a tenpage letter, very detailed, and he gives some remarkable detail and i would like to read it. Its on page 6. I this is Senator Johnson speaking, he said i asked him whether there was some kind of
arran arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. Without hesitation, Senator Johnson says, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed and he started cursing. He said, no way. President trump said no way. I would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reactionnt here was adamant, vehe
block the visa, the state department blocked it. that is according to testimony from one of mike pompeo s top officials, george kent. kent himself told house investigators this, knowing mr. shokin, a have full faith that it was a bun of hooey and he was looking to engage in a con game out of revenge because he lost his job. barrett burger, a former federal pros crecutor, former u attorney, also worked as assistant director for the fbi office for congressional affairs. and the assistant professor of politics. i have a full house, we have a lot to get into, greg, to you first, these claims by rudy giuliani, ais there any evidenc backing up what he is saying it.
was in the fbi. does this sound like something he would have written? no.ik ld is it normal to come out a say what your investigation is and isn t andat then to say wha your incomplete investigation found that s different from another person s investigation? it s extremely unusual. a u.s.nu attorney could be poli disciplin disciplined for coming out and talking about the case in this manner. wonder if there was direction or pressure to do this and i would love to see what documentation exists between horowitz and durham, the i.g. and the a.g. barr, and durham regarding this statement. julie ainsley joins us now. i was shocked when you first started reading barr s attack on the inspector general report on the air, but it has been followed by a second statement from attorney generala barr apparentlyrr he wasn t done
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