Domestic political errand and we were being involved in national security foreign policy and those two things had just diverged. hill recounted sondland s deal with mick mulvaney to arrange an oval office meeting between president trump and the ukrainian spread. he said he had a meeting in return for investigations this meeting would get scheduled. she recalled how john bolton then the national security adviser told her to report it. the specific struck was i had to go to the lawyers, to john eisenberg, senior counsel for the national security council, to basically say you tell eisenberg ambassador bolton told me i am not part of this whatever deal that mulvaney and sondland are cooking up. both offered sharp warning to lawmakers. i refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that ukraine, not russia, attacked us
Them. she explained point by point exactly why it makes no sense to equate any innuendo with ukraine about what russia did in 2016. she took the politico article that republicans have been entering into the record for several days now, written by a good reporter that she affirmed was a good reporter and she explained that that article did not say that ukraine had the same kind of top down effort to interfere in the 2016 election that russia did. she also explained that in the leadup to the 2016 election, there were several other world leaders and ambassadors and officials and high level governments who are even our allies who wrote things that were unfavorable to president trump, who criticized him publicly. and she said, ukrainian officials did that, they probably shouldn t have, but that is not the same thing as election interference and that was, i think, really powerful for her to do. she didn t just bat it aside. she took the republican argument
Not only that, but also using the full tools of the government to investigate a private citizen of this country. that s like the worst fear of any individual with regard to their government. so i think this is very serious. congressman krishnamoorthi, thank you for joining us on this important day. everybody stand by. even though the white house is downplaying today s impeachment testimony, it was very dramatic, so what is next now that president trump s former russia adviser has shattered republican conspiracy theories about ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election as opposed to russian meddling. oss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommended memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.
To ukraine was directly connected to that country s investigating joe biden and his son. our politicalsara murray is here with us in the situation room. we saw powerful statements today from the two witnesses. that s right. fiona hill did kick it off, she came out swinging against those gop conspiracy theories and of course then we heard from david holmes who recounted the stunning conversation he heard between president trump and gordon sondland. a u.s. diplomat in ukraine recounted for lawmakers the moment he realized that president trump cared more about having joe biden and his son investigated than anything to do with ukraine. the four of us went to a nearby restaurant and sat on an outdoor terrace. ambassador sondland selected a bottle of wine, said he would call president trump to give him an update. that came july 26th, just a day after trump spoke with
On ukraine, not russia. i want to be clear, beware gop sleight of hand on this argument about ukraine interference in the election. a lot of heard, you heard jim jordan talking about op-eds written by ukrainian officials and so on. that s not the interference. trump was repeatedly, in the testimony, talking about the dnc server, it is actually in ukraine, et cetera. that s where the president s attention was, not on protecting the election. beyond that, wolf, today s testimony by fiona hill was devastating for the republicans. we have seen extraordinary testimony from fact witnesses, from professionals, she was the gold standard. and so was david holmes. and point by point she absolutely devastated the republicans until at some point they were making statements where they said, i really don t have any questions to ask you. she completely took apart anything. there has been no white house