the moment it might be better for joe biden that the media and everybody else are following up on donald trump and his accusations and not joe biden. is there a mix of opinion in his campaign about should he be going harder on donald trump or should he just be trying to ride this wave? he doesn t have much of a choice, ali, in that even if he doesn t want to be going at trump, trump s coming at him. trump s allies are coming at him, rudy giuliani, the republicans and the house, the name biden is circulated through their mouths as often as anything else, including trump and make america great again. biden s the other word they like to say. but there is some disagreement in the biden camp from folks i talked to, at least in terms of just how hard he goes after trump and how that s stated, how much he s rallying his base around the idea that he s a victim of trump and that trump
of middle class taxes is something that will hurt elizabeth warren the more that the conversation is there going forward. mike, great reporting as always. thank you my friend. mike memoli on the trail with joe biden in las vegas. the white house is in, quote, total panic over the house s impeachment inquiry. while that could mean bad news for president trump, who stands to gain from it? joe biden s campaign as we just heard from mike hopes it s him and sent out a fundraising email yesterday with this image attached. just imagine what joe biden must be thinking in this photo watching donald trump at the united nations lying about your family, your family. but his biggest rival senator elizabeth warren and her team hope she reaps the benefits instead. nbc news national political reporter jonathan allen has been covering this story for us. picking up from what we were just talking about with mike memoli. elizabeth warren slowly and steadily picking up steam. as we get closer to the firs
the whistle-blower wrote in his complaint that on may 14, he learned trump had instructed vice president pence to cancel plans to attend zelensky s inauguration. on june 21st, giuliani tweeted that zelensky had been silent on the investigation of ukrainian interference in the 2016 election and alleged bribery by biden. it becomes interesting. on july 18 president trump ordered mulvaney to hold back $400 million, congressionally approved military aid to ukraine. on july 25th donald trump had his phone call with zelensky in which according to the white house notes, trump san diego as ukrainian leader for a favor by looking into the american security firm crowd strike as well biden and his son.
he urged him to work with rudy giuliani and barr. ten days later the whistle-blower filed the complaint. on august 28, politico reported a senior administration official told them that the trump administration was holding up military aid to ukraine. during a news conference on september 2nd, vice president pence did not deny that the aid was tied to giuliani s investigation, saying the president had concerns about corruption in ukraine. nine days later the trump administration released that $391 million in aid and one week after that the washington post reported that the whistle-blower complaint involved trump himself. the next day the post reported that the complaint involved ukraine. let s go to congressman anthony brown of maryland now. congressman, this has been something in the making for some time. we ve learned about it
personal attorney, rudy giuliani, held a meeting in new york with ukraine s form are top prosecutor, a man named yur yuri lutsenko. he said hunter served as a board member. that caught rudy giuliani s attention. on may 1st the new york times published its story on biden, his son and ukraine and noted that giuliani had been investigating the issue. on may 9th the new york times reported that giuliani planned to travel to ukraine to help trump. well, he cancelled the trip the day after the report.