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the washington post robert costa reporting tonight several senate republicans were stunned wednesday and questioned the white house s judgment after it released a rough transcript of president trump s call with that ukrainian president. a anonymous republican told the washington post that the transcript release was a huge mistake while the party argues at the same time that house democrats are overreefrpiaching their impeachment inquiry. anyway, two senate republicans openly called the memo troubling. i did read the transcript. it remains troubling in the extreme. it s deeply troubling. at this stage the process is to continue gathering information, but clearly what we ve seen from the transcript itself is deeply troubling. republicans ought not to be rushing to circle the wagons and say there s no there there when there s obviously lots troubling there. the administration ought not be ....
National security officials at the white house leading up to the president s phone call. sessions that led some participants to fear trump and those close to him were prepared to use u.s. leverage for trump s political gain. and some senior officials worked behind the scenes to hold off a trump meeting or even a phone call with president zelinsky out of concern the president was use information to press kiev about joe biden and his son. it sounds like, chris, from what congressman swalwell said that this whistle-blower complaint is going to provide a road map for congress to question other individuals who will have knowledge of the requests that were made, that setup the zelinsky call. clearly he knee what the president was going to say in the call because he d had ....
You know who i did it at the request of? the state department. i never talked to a ukrainian official until the state department called me and asked me to do it and then i reported every conversation back to them. and i m a pretty good lawyer, just a country lawyer but it s all here, right here. welcome back to hardball. that was president trump s personal attorney rudy giuliani last night defending his interactions with ukraine. giuliani s efforts to dig up dirt on the bidens is the central focus now of president trump s july phone call with the ukrainian president himself. one key quote from the white house notes president trump told the ukrainian leader i want to ask him to call you along with the attorney general. rudy very much knows what s happening and he s a very capable guy. if you could speak with him, that would be great, closed quote. the washington post reports on ....
Melded together those two things into this problem that sits in front of him. and what s different about this problem than the other ones that we ve seen is that it s sort of a single thing that he has to contend with. over the past three years what it s been is a lot of different things, collusion, obstruction, different things about his business. in this instance it s sort of one thing with the transcript with his own words. we are inside the room with him behind closed doors seeing what he is saying to a foreign leader and how he s using his power. that s the way i read it. where it says in these notes from the conversation put out by the national security counsel, the president of ukraine, sort of desperate, we were almost ready to buy more javelins. these are the weapons used to fight tanks with from the united states for defense purposes. the next thing the president says after hearing that plea he goes, here s trump, i would like to do i would like you to do ....
President of the united states to condition military support here in the form of javelin missiles to fight russian tanks, the condition that delivery of those weapons, defensive weapons on whether a president of that allied country gives him dirt on a political opponent, is itself a high crime? where are you on that? yes, it is. it s corrupt. it s the way third world leaders conduct themselves, not the president of the united states. again, the president has made the standard quid pro quo, just the fact that he asks shows he would have to owe the uyan krn president something, putting foreign governments priorities above america s. the ukrainian s aren t stupid. they know that militarily, economically and just through credibility they need the united states. and if aid is being held back and the president of the united states is asking you to do something, they re going to do it. trump is our commander in chief. he s head of state, head of government in many ways in a country that h ....