plp mr. president than those and poll tex today as gotten so mean and ugly and dirty and if the and not focusing at all on trying to put things together instead of disdegreeing on stub stangs, you go to it has become so, so difficult for republicans to be able to, unless they have real courage to stand you and take on the president even if they think he should be ten out because he such if somewhere between 30 and 35% of the electorate, which is the bulk of the republican party. ands i i ll give you an
the center. at the center, as you were saying, we already have the transcript, we already have the admission by the focus of the investigation, the president. he s admitted that he made these statements. he s not hiding from it and went on the white house lawn and made other statements similar with respect to china. and so the core allegation is there for all to see. what lieutenant colonel vindman and other witnesses are adding is context, they re adding how people thought about it at the time, they re adding their sense at professionals working in thissar direthis area directly that this was wrong, improper and importantly, as the colonel testified, contrary to the national security interests of the united states because it was going to damage the relationship with ukraine and make ukraine a political football in domestic poll tex and that s bad for the national security. so he s adding context, he s adding additional detail but the
and so the core allegation is there for all to see. what lieutenant colonel vindman and other witnesses are adding is context, they re adding how people thought about it at the time, they re adding their sense at professionals working in this area directly that this was wrong, improper and importantly, as the colonel testified, contrary to the national security interests of the united states because it was going to damage the relationship with ukraine and make ukraine a political football in domestic poll tex and that s bad for the national security. so he s adding context, he s adding additional detail but the core allegation is there. gotcha. i should have heard that concentric circle thing before. it would have helped me with the wall. we have those things broken into four facts five facts that the money and meeting were withheld, your quid pro quo, it
that. so i struggle to see whether there s a legal logic. the white house said you can vote this way or sacrifice your political office and a lot of them said i m not going to sacrifice my plate call argument. in other words, poll tex over princip principle. you defend the constitution. there s nothing more clear than what the constitution says. article i puts it out that the congress gets to appropriate money. in this case it was debated. it there came a bite once you say you re going to give up that principle, you destroy the entire balances of power that i lou appropriations bills to come
like i didn t expect it to be like that. last month fox news host laura ingram said basketball players like wade should stay out of poll tex and just shut up and dribble. you are not going to shut up and dribble. why not? because i do more than dribble. it s just not who i am. it s never been who i am. for me it s bigger than basketball. it s bigger than dribbling. i ve been given the opportunity to use my voice, to stand for so many that cannot, stand for so many that they will not allow to talk and have a voice and i understand the power. so i will not. and pushing this forward, it s not just the march in d.c. saturday but sibling marches in l.a., boston, chicago and as far away as london, madrid, tel aviv, mumbai, hong kong.