Hour. Ali velshi is here. That would be wild if there wasnt a mention of emoluments in the konsz constitution. Even without it. If you look at the way business operates, the way we operate, the way politics operates, you protect against seeming like seeming like. For your own pocket. Even if the impression is there you protect against that. This was the danger when people didnt take the emoluments clause seriously when we discussed it. It becomes more and more on normal. We started discussing it the way he was inaugurated, talking about the trump d. C. Hotel and it has been a consistent issue ever few months since then. New stories arise, does donald trump, is he working for himself, is he working for the American Public, his golf course in scotland the blind trust thats not blind. The air force stopping and staying inviting everybody from the
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on the basis theyn t hadn t done enough against corruption. reporter: this adds another data point as we try to understand the series of events and rationale given by the white house and other events as we re learning them. here comes a new piece of information from the department of defense where they were n informing the relevant committees of congress about the preparedness to provide military asis tarns to ukraine. on behalf of the the secretary of defense and in coordination with the secretary of state, i have certified the government of ukraine has take condition substantial actions to make defense institutional reforms for the purpose of decreasing corruption, increasing accountability and staining improvements of combat capability enlabeled by assistance. this was in may, we know the
said they hadn t found the time to read the whistle-blower report. they had not gotten into it, but the republican senators who ve been coming in and out of this intel committee meeting behind me meeting with the dni and now the inspector general of the intelligence committee have come out with a little bit more of a serious tone here saying there s a lot in this. they want to take it very seriously. while they are getting briefed they are not commenting. some like susan collins have said she won t discuss this at all until the house decides what it s going to do about impeachment. but republican senators including some of those who are more typically allied with president trump and i m not saying a large number but at least a few are holding back a little bit on this where they continue to be briefed. and again at least on this side of the house the senate side taking things a bit more seriously. let me just ask you about what susan collins said. she said i m not commenting on this be
intelligence storage system even though there was nothing intelligence about the conversation. they knew what was going on. and if it hadn t have been for that whistle-blower, we might not know this today. of course this puts the whole united states position in jeopardy because there was someone else who knew about, and that was ukraine. uh-huh. and that does compromise things. congresswoman, thanks for talking to me. congresswoman diana deget of colorado. joseph meg yif left a closed meeting with the senate intelligence committee. joining me now from capitol hill is msnbc s garrett haake. that was a closed meeting so i guess we know less about what happened there than what we saw this morning in the house. but fundamentally, would it have been different from what the american public saw this morning? reporter: it appears the meeting itself was different and the reaction to it has been different, ali. by and large today on the senate side of the capitol you have not seen republi