really eye-popping disclosure in her early deposition that he was that national security adviser was so alarmed about what the president and his advisers were doing. he told her to go to the lawyers. he said i don t want to be a part of any drug deal that they re cooking up. he called rudy giuliani a hand grenade. so fiona is a very important witness when it comes to the alarm inside the white house with the president s own advisers as far as what was going on here. and so i wouldn t discount that. you know, if you re going to have a philosophical argument you re counting on it. it s still an abuse of power, even if you believe something like this because it was so ignorant to believe it that it actually makes you a national security threat. i m out of time, though, unless what you re going to say is going to change the whole disposition. i think the republicans are going to point out that it s unclear if these concerns of bolton made their way to the president. okay. thank y
the white house. he was sending his deputies to the white house counsel s office. he called rudy giuliani a hand grenade. he talked about what mulvaney was doing as a drug deal. it appeared that gordon sondland went out of his way to say that john bolton asked for rudy s cell phone number and then one of your colleagues said why do you underscore that? why did you make that point twice? he said you work in the white house, you can get anybody s phone number. he appeared to throw john bolton under the bus. i wonder if that changed your calculation about his importance as a witness. well, what s important to gordon sondland is not always what s important to us. what s important to us is to understand what the president did and what he was thinking and what it meant and to hold him accountable for it. and that s our primary focus. look, you know, john bolton s day is coming. so is mick mulvaney. so is secretary pompeo s. so is everybody who thinks they can run fast enough to escape
breaking news of t. number one, you get the democratic strategy. we don t want to drag this on, we re bumping up against a campaign year, we want to do this as quickly as possible. but is it possible this changes when you get to the judiciary if there is actually an impeachment? or if there is an impeachment trial? the democrats believe they have fiona hill, one of bolton s deputies, who said he called rudy giuliani a hand grenade. my argument, though, is it is a political argument. if you re trying to sway trump voters, don t you want bolton at the witness table at some point? in a perfect world, yes, having bolton there would help democrats. unfortunately, they don t live
and on thursday, john bolton is last. and i want to go back to scheduled to testify. substance. what they will be hearing in the witnesses say that he xashed the pressure campaign to a, quote, potentially public hearings, drug deal and called rudy john bolton, john eisenburg will giuliani a hand grenade. be testifying next week, both this week lawmakers heard from within i guess the closer two members of the national security council, both described confines of the white house. the july phone call and the president s effort to get ukraine to begin investigations. ukrai what do you want to hear them ukraine expert alexander vindman answer, what questions do you contradicted the president s have and what are you looking claiming that the call was perfect and word for word. out for. i m interested to hear what he testified that there were eisenburg and michael ellis who blank spots in the readout and is also deputy national legal that he unsuccessfully tried to adviser have to say about
everybody up. bolton describing giuliani s work in ukraine as a drug deal. on wednesday, the house voted 354-60 to condemn the president s syria policy. a stinging bipartisan rebuke. we ceded effectively syria over to russia and turkey. that afternoon, the president exploded in a closed-door white house meeting with democrats. after comments from speaker nancy pelosi. i have concerns about all roads leading to putin. that seemed to have angered the president. on thursday, the president s acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, admitted what the president has long denied. there was no quid pro quo. no quid pro quo. no quid pro quo. but mulvaney said president trump did hold up military aid to ukraine to pressure its president to assist in a justice department investigation into the 2016 election. what you just described is a quid pro quo. we do that all the time with foreign policy. just hours after confirming