funding that has been taken out by republicans, people like scott walker, and he mentioned senator ron johnson than, -- johnson, people who do not think young people need college education. i would take what he said with a grain of salt. host: we are going to turn to our viewers. we have a fourth line for wisconsin resident, (202) 748-8003. caller: thank you for a great show this morning, and thank you , representative more bang. -- representative moore. saidsentative fortenberry turn it all off, it is confusing. that reminds me of why trump decided to run as a republican. he clearly stated he could not fool democrats like he could republicans. fortenberry saying do not listen to all of this stuff, it is so confusing. it is not confusing to us democrat. donald trump has a little window to resign, otherwise this conspiracy will take down pence, pompeo, kevin mccarthy, devin nunes, they will all go down because trump's ego will not let him go down. thank you for your vote. we had the same thing in michigan, saying you can text your vote here. we had counties near detroit that only 30% of the peo

. >> just lastly republican senator ron johnson claimed it's damaged the u.s.kraine, adding quote the sooner this ends the better for america. i'm not sure exactly what that's based on and how the impeachment inquiry could damage relations more than the president trying to extort ukraine. >> you know, ron johnson and i obviously have been part of this trial. we traveled to ukraine as this corruption was unfolding. and, you know, president zelensky told us to our face that he wanted to stay out of american elections, that he knew that getting dragged into u.s. politics was going to hurt him and hurt ukraine. so president zelensky told us to our face that it was the attempts by the trump people to drag him into american politics that was doing the damage to him and his country and that is, of course, the truth. our responsibility is to get to the bottom of this corruption. and though yes when this trial is over it will be a little bit easier for people like ron johnson and i to get back together, working on pro-u.s. ukraine policy. our responsibility now to our c

we have the vice president meeting with president zelensky nothing happened when you had ron johnson and chris murphy meeting with president zelensky, nothing happened. those facts don't change and so that's why it doesn't matter. >> and i want to know why you didn't ask this question of the house, the house managers. they did not subpoena him about getting john bolton. why wasn't the media there then? nobody questioned why didn't you subpoena john bolton, why didn't you ask for other witnesses. this is a little disingenuous if you ask me. >> so with doing that if there were releasers about it you did ask the question but you didn't ask the question why didn't they do a subpoena for john bolton like they did what everyone else. we know the answer to that is they were afraid of the answer from the judicial branch. so not only do they not trust the executive branch, they don't trust the judicial branch. all right. [inaudible question] >> listen, it's not up to me to characterize whether i trusted or not. what i do trust are the facts and the facts of the matter have that change. thank

[cheers and applause] ron johnson, all these guys. this didn't happen so quickly.ut how do you beat that? you have the most successful, lowest unemployment rate you ever had, then they say we'll do a better job. the lowest in history by far. your number one economic numbers by far. let's put somebody else in as president. i don't think so. right? but here is one i love the most. african-american, hispanic american, asian-american unemployment rates have reached the lowest levels ever recorded in the history of our country. [cheers and applause] and here is another one. african-american youths, you know it was so high and so horrible. youth unemployment as reached an all-time low in recorded history. african-american poverty has reached the lowest rate ever recorded also. by the way. just out of curiosity. how are you -- your 401ks doing? the only question, are you at 70, 80, 90, what are you at? what's yours? 100%. not bad. i know who he's voting for. but think of this. this is what it's about. these companies, these big public companies, they are owned by everybod

. >> ron johnson, senator ron johnson, has been relevant here because he is one of arguably two people we know about that spoke to the president directly about aid to ukraine when he was over there with chris murphy in ukraine. he was surprised, he says, to hear them saying, what's going on with the aid in the meeting. and he called the president and the president said that it wasn't tie today wasn't tied to that, but he said he should release the aid. i'm worried about executive privilege. i don't want the senate to get caught up in setting a precedent where we knock down executive privilege and we hamper presidents to come and, therefore, we cannot have witnesses because the president's counsel has made it clear he will invoke privilege. thoughts? >> well, in the law we have a phrase for that. it's called b.s. it has -- >> is that latin? >> it is absolutely no merit whatsoever. the executive privilege exists as an entitlement of the president to keep certain information confidential. from the public and from congress. but the key is certain information. and the privilege does not in

. >> the president expressed these precise concerns to senator ron johnson, who wrote, he reminded me how thoroughly corrupt ukraine was and, again, conveyed his frustration that europe doesn't do its fair share of providing military aid. the house managers didn't tell you about this. why not? and president trump was right to be concerned that other countries weren't paying their fair share. as laura cooper testified, u.s. contributions to ukraine are far try, and she alsothan any co said eu funds tend to be on the economic side rather than for defense and security. senator johnson confirmed other countries refuse to provide the defensive weapons ukraine needs in its war with russia. please keep in mind the pause of the security program was far from unusual or out of character for president trump. the american people know the president is skeptic of foreign aid. one of his campaign promises and priorities in office has been to avoid wasteful spending of american abroad. meanwhile, the same people who, today, claim that president trump was not jgenuinely concerned about burden sharing

and -- that has been taken out by republicans, people like scott walker, and he mentioned senator ron johnson people who don't think young people need college education. i would take what he said with a grain of salt. >> we are going to turn to our viewers now. we have a fourth line for wisconsin residents, (202) 748-8003. we'll go first to debbie in flint, michigan. >> thank you for a great show this morning, and thank you, representative moore. representative fortenberry said id it's so confusin, turn it all off. don't listen to it. that reminds me of why trump decided to run as a republican. he clearly stated he couldn't fool democrats like he could republicans. and fortenberry saying don't listen to all of this stuff, it is so confusing. it is not confusing to we democrats, not a bit. i think donald trump has a little window to resign, otherwise this conspiracy is gonna take down pence, pompeo, bil barr, kevin mccarthy, devin nunes, they're all gonna go down because trump's ego will not let him go down. thanks for your vote, representative. we had the same thing in michigan, saying you ca

that same day, august 30th, republican senator ron johnson spoke with amend sondland to express his concern about president trump's decision to withhold military assistance to ukraine. senator johnson described that call in an interview with the "wall street journal." according to senator johnson, amend sondland told him that, if ukraine would commit to, quote, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, if president trump has that confidence, then he'll release the military spending. senator johnson added, at that suggestion, i winced. my reaction was, oh, god, i don't want to see those two things combined. the next day, august 31st, senator johnson spoke by phone with president trump regarding the decision to withhold aid to ukraine. according to the "wall street journal" president trump denied the quid pro quo that senator johnson learned of from amend sondland. at the same time, however, president trump refused to authorize senator johnson to tell ukrainian officials on his upcoming trip to kiev that the aid would be forthcoming. the message that amend sondland communicated to senator j

>> what i am calling on is for everyone, including ron johnson to vote to call john bolton as a witness. we need witnesses, we need document and witnesses with first-hand knowledge. i quoted what johnson recorded that the president said to him and their phone call on august 31, 2019. , it is inconsistent with the reporting last night of what john bolton had said. he said he heard from the president. one of them is not telling the truth and i think that means we should all have an interest in hearing from john bolton the former national security advisor to the president as a witness. >> just to follow up on that, does that mean perhaps senator johnson could testify does that put you in a difficult situation. you are saying one of them -- >> my view we don't want senators to testify. that is not the point here. we want the eyewitnesses to what the president did to testify. >> what pressure does this put on mitt romney with a report about john vote. does it increase pressure for romney, alexander,. >> i never get into any specific names. there is increased pressure -- the eyes of america a

. >> that same day, august 30th, republican senator ron johnson spoke with ambassador sondland to express his concern about president trump's decision to withhold military assistance to ukraine. senator johnson described that call in an interview with the "wall street journal." according to his, josh johnson, ambassador sondland told him if you crane would quote get to the bottom of 2016, if president trump has that confidence, then he'll release the military spending. senator johnson added, at that suggestion, i winced. my reaction was, oh god. i don't want to see those two things combined. the next day, august 31st, senator johnson spoke by phone with president trump, regarding the decision to withhold aid to ukraine. according to "wall street journal," president trump denied the quid pro quo that senator johnson learned out from ambassador sondland. at the same time, however, president trump refused to authorize senator johnson to tell ukrainian officials on an upcoming trip to kiev that the aid would be forthcoming. the message that ambassador sondland communicated to senator johnson

but before thehim, a bipartisan group of senators, including senators portman, durbin, shaheen, ron johnson, murphy, kirk, bloomberg and sher rod brown, sent a letter to president pofto urge him to mak changes. the month after the senator sent that letter, mr. shokin was fired. he was fired. so let's be very, very clear. vice president biden called for the removal of this prosecutor at the official direction of u.s. policy. because the prosecutor was widely perceived as corrupt. and with the support of all our international allies. his actionswere, therefore, supported by the executive branch, congress, and the international community. common sense would tell us that this allegation against joe biden is false, and that there was no legitimate basis for any investigation. but there's several other reasons, you know, that the only reason president trump wanted ukraine to announce the investigation into biden that was sole for this very own personal benefit. so if you look at tslide, it will summarize some points. first, none of the 17 witnesses in the house's inquiry said there was any factua

trump: ron johnson, all those guys. it just didn't happen so quickly. how do you beat that?e the lowest unemployment rate you have ever had and then somebody says we will do a better job. really? far,owest in history by number one economic numbers by far, let's put some of the elves and as president. i don't think so, right? here's the one i love the most. african, hispanic americans, asian american unemployment rates have reached the lowest levels ever recorded in the history of our country. [cheering and applause] pres. trump: and here's another one. african-american youth, you know it was so high, it was so horrible. youth unemployment has reached an all-time low in recorded history. [cheering and applause] pres. trump: african-american poverty has reached the lowest rate ever recorded also. [cheering and applause] way, trump: and by the just out of curiosity, how are your 401(k)s doing? are they doing ok? [cheering and applause] pres. trump: the only question, are you at 70, 80, 90%, higher? what is yours? 100%, not bad. i know who he is voting for. but think of this, th

to ambassador sondland as well as to senator ron johnson. the president was emphatic to ambassador sondland, the president said, quote, i want nothing, i want no quid pro quo. i just want zelenskyy to do it he ran into senator johnson just two words, no way. recognizing the flaw in the testimony house managers focused instead on an alternate quid pro quo rationale, that the exchange was conditioned on a foreign head of state meeting at the white house in return for ukraine publicly announcing an investigation of the bidens. in the house judiciary report it states, quote, it is beyond question that official white house visits constitute a formal it were size of governmental power within the meaning of mcdonald, not so fast. actually the supreme court and mcdonald boiled it down to only facts that constitute formal exercise of government power and are more specific than abroad policy objectives. and exchange meeting, phone calls, as those terms are typically understood as being a routine according to the supreme court definition of an official

heard a couple nights ago you know jamie it wasn't going to jump in right now go ahead go ahead ron johnson. jamie said there was another for instance of that happening too when they brought up medicare for all and they said bernie you really need to attach a price tag on medicare for all now this panel we might not all agree on medicare for all i'm for it but you know bernie sanders went on to explain how the pricing of medicare for all would work like he explained it in that answer and then their next question was joe biden doesn't bernie need to give a price tag on medicare for all it's like are you listening to what the guy saying it was it was truly my feeling is it just been jamie go ahead jump in is a very i think it's very interesting that what theme in sort of did was engaged in what i called sort of the. amazing i mean that's not a real word mr in the dictionary but what i see it to be even limousine where they kind of went through the they basically engaged in political messaging with not very much fact the malices or even research so you want to us but why did they bomb and jami

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voted to remove him a bipartisan group of senators including senators portman, durbin, shaheen, ron johnson, kirk, blumenthal and sherrod brown. they urged him to make urgent reforms to the prosecutor general's office. the month after the senator sent that letter, mr. shokin was fired. he was fired. so, let's be very, very clear. vice president biden called for the removal of this prosecutor at the official direction of u.s. policy. that was widely received as corrupt and with the support of all of our international allies, his actions were therefore supported by the executive branch, congress and the international community. common sense would tell us that this allegation against joe biden is false. and there was no legitimate basis for any investigation that was the only reason that president trump wanted to investigate for his own personal benefit. if you look at the site, it will summarize some points. first, none of the 17 witnesses in the houses inquiry said there was any factual basis for this allegation, not one of the 17. to the contrary, they testified it was false. second it was

marco rubio, rick scott and ron johnson asking the department of homeland security to explain how theroved for a visa. the saudi national opens fire at the pensacola air station last month, three people died. we could soon hear the trump administration's plan to end the arab-israeli conflict. donald trump revealing it will be released before tuesday's meeting with benjamin netanyahu and his rival at the white house. netanyahu personally inviting gantz despite the two facing each other in his relapse third national election in a year. back at home you could soon be getting another tax cut. a new round of cuts for the middle class is underway. tracy carrasco is here with the details. >> speaking to cnbc and davos, switzerland, steve mnuchin said donald trump has asked him to work on tax cuts 2.oh, additional tax cuts could be coming. listen to what he had to say. >> there will be tax cuts for the middle class and looking at other incentives. the president feels that we need to continue to incentivize the middle class, their taxes have been too high historically. >> they can stimulate ec

she said ron johnson suggested there was a quid pro quo. >> ed: what about romney?nother jury in america that gets to pick the process. senators are going to get to pick whether they witnesses or not. let's just say this. if they do, president obama, andrew mccabe, the whistle-blower, schiff, all but he clearly schedules. >> ed: mary anne, what about hunter biden, whose name keeps coming up? lindsey graham tweeted a short time ago, "okay, if pulled pulled this a to testify --" he didn'tell mike that he will comp with that the president deserves as witnesses, as well. >> i'm not going to defend them, but this was about investigating him and his father because his father at the time of the call was the front runner in the race against donald trump. that is a fact. the only reason donald trump was during this was for personal political reasons. it's a federal crime punishable by prison. nobody in the united states of america can ask, accept, or receive anything of any value from any foreign government. that is a fact. >> i don't think that's true. >> it is! >> it's jus

jobs and investments are pouring into 120 newly designated opportunity zones in wisconsin, and ron johnsonim scott helped. they are doing great. and for decades, politicians ran for office promising to defend wisconsin workers, but then they went to washington and lined their pockets with special interest cash as they shipped your jobs and dreams to countries thousands of miles away, countries you have never even heard of. host: congresswoman? guest: [laughter] this is really laughable. host: he has a strong economy. but it is now softening i am not -- softening. i am not going to talk opportunity zones because there are not guard rails to make sure they benefit the people who live there and not just benefit the developers. smarting from the president coming in and building up foxconn. that will cost a tremendous amount of money in transportation funds, $175 million gone to waste on transportation effort. people in mount pleasant, wisconsin still fighting to prevent the department from using eminent domain to take their property for foxconn, for manufacturingwn enterprise that was promised

rob portman and ron johnson, the other point that trump's defenders keep making incorrectly is that you must have a crime. yet, we have yet to hear what crime joe or hunter biden may have committed. here in the united states or even in ukraine. trump's own d.o.j. has never pursued any charges. and the ukrainian prosecutors, who did look into this, said definitively, hunter biden did not violate anything in their laws. so, while pam bondy tried to push a version of this president who is somehow tough on corruption, the facts are not on her side. since taking office, this president killed a bipartisan an anti corruption rule. the latest is that he tried to make it easier to bribe foreign governments. what hunter biden did was arguably wrong. it looks bad. it doesn't pass the smell test. the former vp says he'll have rules against what his son did if he's elected. but none of that answers why the president chose to go about this the way he did. and why he has chosen to hide his perfect alibi. think about that. nobody hides an alibi. although it is one word. let's bring back our legal minds

house record who actually spoke to the president about the aid, ambassador sondland and senator ron johnson, say the insident was unequivocal saying there was no quid pro quo. fifth, and this one is pretty obvious, that aid flowed and president trump and president zelensky met without any investigations started or announced. finally, and ask that you not lose sight of the big picture here. by providing leave laid to ukraine -- lethal aid to ukraine, president trump has proven himself to be a better friend and ally to ukraine than his predecessor. the time for the house managers to bring their case is now. they had their chance to develop their evidence before they sent the articles of impeachment to this chamber. this chambers role is not to do the houses job for it. with that i got the balance of my time to mr. cipollone. >> thank you, mr. chief justice. just a couple of observations. first of all, as mr. purpura said, all we're talking about is when this question is addressed. under the resolution, that will be next week. this resolution was accepted 100 to nothing.00 some of you were her

to ambassador sondland as well as to senator ron johnson, the president was emphatic to ambassador sondland. the president said i want nothing. i want no quid pro quo. i just want zelensky to do the right thing. to do what he ran on, closed on. the senator johnson the same thing. just two words, no way. recognizing this flaw in the testimony house managers have focused on an alternate quid pro quo that it was conditioned on foreign head of state meeting at the white house in return for ukraine publicly nie lly announ investigation of the bidens. i quote, it's beyond question that official white house visits constitute a formal exercise of governmental power within the meaning of mcdonald, closed quote. not so fast. actually the supreme court and mcdonald helpfully boiled it down to only those acts that constitute the formal exercise of government power and more specific and focused than a broad policy objective. exchange resulting in meetings, event, phone calls as those turns are typically understood as being routine according to the supreme's definition of an official act do not count. th

here's republican senator rob portman and republican senator ron johnson. this is september 3rd, writing with a bunch of democratic senate cleolleagues to mick mulvaney. we write our concern of the administration not obligating security assistance for 2019. quote, we have worked hard in a bipartisan manner in the senate to provide funding for security assistance program for ukraine that is effective and transparent and fiscally responsible. we strongly urge you to direct the defense department to obligate these funds immediately. two days after that, september 5th, another republican, congressman mike mccaul, top republican on the foreign affairs committee writes to mick mulvaney and to the head of omb russell vought. he says, quote, we write to express our deep concern in support of ukraine's defense regarding reports that omb is holding up significant security assistance funding and support of ukraine's defense. we urge you to make these funds available for obligation without delay. i mean, there's all these republicans who have been acting somewhat heroi

one other senator just to point out, ron johnson the republican from wisconsin who has been in lockstep with president trump recently said, yes, john bolton should tell his story in a media interview but not as a witness in our trial. >> of course that makes absolutely no sense. >> right. >> that's what we've come to expect from senator ron johnson. so, heidi, you've got not only those senators saying there need to be more witnesses, you've got 75% of americans saying we need to hear more witnesses, including 49% of republicans. a majority, and yet another poll saying that donald trump abused the powers of his office. a majority saying donald trump obstructed the investigation into his own impeachment and yet we hear lindsey graham, the head of the senate judiciary committee, starting to talk about discredited conspiracy theories about ukraine. i find this very interesting because yesterday you couldn't get a straight answer from three congress people who kept going back to crowd strike and a ukrainian conspiracy theory that had been discredit months ago. >> yeah, joe, that was really s

two powerful republican senators, chuck grassley, ron johnson, demanding ag william barr give them unclassifiedchdog report on the trump campaign, fisa court abuses there. former fbi assistant director danny coulson. it is a mystery. we don't know what they want or what the footnotes are. it might debunk the political buys on the fbi trump campaign. >> i hope it depunks it. very frankly the key here is not what the members of the senate think. it is what the facts are. we need to let durham do his job, not be concerned about clarifying a footnote. we're talking about the greatest scandal in the history of the federal judiciary probably. it involves highest level of the fbi. they need to sit back, let him do his job. come up with a case, if it is fair. that is what we need to know. the debunking after theory to me has no weight whatsoever. the facts are what matters. if the facts, motive -- that's okay. let him do his job. liz: criminal prosecutor what is happening now, what these republican senators find, he may throw the book at comey and his team. senator grassley and johnson in their letter

investment are now pouring into 120 newly designated opportunities zones right here in wisconsin and ron johnsonand jim scott of south carolina helps. they are doing great. they are doing great. [cheering] and for decades, politicians ran for office, promising to defend wisconsin workers. but then they went to washington and lined their pockets with special interest cash as they shipped your jobs and your dreams to countries thousands of miles away, countries that you've never even heard of. politicians lowered our economic defenses and allows other nations to rob your factories, steal your farms, by the way there is no estate tax on those beautiful farms, we got rid of that. [cheering] so now, if you love your children and you have a farmers small business or small ranch or even a large ranch, you have no estate tax you can give it to the kids. if you don't love your children. [laughter] is there anyone in here that doesn't love their children? all right raise your hand. like they are brats, they are little brats they are horrible human beings. [laughter] so if you want on track one of them thi

debrief we've already known happened between some top trump administration officials and senator ron johnsoner their trip to the inauguration of the ukrainian president where the u.s. president went into a rant about his feeling ukraine tried to harm him and mentioned dnc hacked server conspiracy. so this is a bunch of different information that has not been out there. certainly it touches on themes that we have heard before but there has not been somebody with a firsthand account saying, yes, these two things were linked before. >> this is the missing link. this is the link the president's defenders say they had not heard and is the witness they say we had not heard from who is now saying exactly that very thing. you brought up mike, president's defense in the senate, before 100 senators, chief justice of the united states. this is what the president claimed saturday. >> there is no evidence anywhere that president trump linked security assistance to any investigations. >> but this manuscript now, as you understand it, maggie, directly refutes that. there is some indication the president, a

on that same day, august 30, republican senator ron johnson spoke with ambassador sondland about his concern of president trump's decision to withhold the -- he talked about that call the wall street journal if ukraine would commit to quotes to get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, if president trump had that confidence, then he will release the military spending. senator johnson added, and that suggestion i winced. my reaction was oh god, i don't want to see those two things combined. the next day, august 31, senator johnson spoke by phone to president trump regarding the decision to withhold aid to ukraine. according to the wall street journal, president denied the quick quote pro that senator johnson had learned of. at the same time however, president trump refused to authorize senator johnson to tell ukrainian officials on his upcoming trip to kyiv that the eta be forthcoming. the message that simon communicated johnson mirrored that of president trump during the july 25 call to zelensky. in which president trump asked twice to get to the bottom of it. including in connecti

on that same day, august 30, republican senator ron johnson spoke with ambassador sondland about his concern of president trump's decision to withhold the -- he talked about that call the wall street journal if ukraine would commit to quotes to get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, if president trump had that confidence, then he will release the military spending. senator johnson added, and that suggestion i winced. my reaction was oh god, i don't want to see those two things combined. the next day, august 31, senator johnson spoke by phone to president trump regarding the decision to withhold aid to ukraine. according to the wall street journal, president denied the quick quote pro that senator johnson had learned of. at the same time however, president trump refused to authorize senator johnson to tell ukrainian officials on his upcoming trip to kyiv that the eta be forthcoming. the message that simon communicated johnson mirrored that of president trump during the july 25 call to zelensky. in which president trump asked twice to get to the bottom of it. including in connecti

even earlier on august 31, senator ron johnson asked the president if there was any connection between security assistance and investigations. ed president answered, no way. i would never do that. who told you that? two witnesses ambassador taylor and tim morrison said they came to believe security assistance was linked to investigations. but both witnesses based this belief entirely on what they heard from ambassador sondland before ambassador sondland spoke to the president. neither taylor nor morrison ever spoke to the president about the matter. how did ambassador sondland come to believe that there was any connection between security assistance and investigations? again, the house managers didn't tell you. why not? in his public testimony ambassador sondland used variations of the words assume, presume, guess, speculate and belief over 30 times. here are some examples. >> that was my presumption, my personal presumption, that was my belief. >> that was my presumption, yeah. >> as i said i presume that might have to be down get the aid released. >> it was a presumption. >> i've bee

even earlier on august 31, senator ron johnson asked the president if there was any connection between security assistance and investigations, the president answered, no way. i would never do that. who told you that? two witnesses, the ambassador taylor and tim morrison said they came to believe security assistance was linked to investigations, but both witnesses based this belief entirely on what they heard from ambassador sondland before ambassador sondland spoke to the president. neither taylor nor morrison ever spoke to the president about the sonand come to believe that there was any connection between security assistance and investigations? again, the house managers didn't tell you. why not? it is public testimony that ambassador sondland used variations of the words assume, presume, guess, speculate, and belief over 30 times. here's some examples. >> that was my presumption, my personal preresumption, my beli. that i presume it might have to be done to get the aid released. it was presumption. i've been very clear to when i was presuming and i was pruchlipruch prooumiproou presu

mentioning a dnc server in a may 23rd meeting we are aware of where a bunch of officials and senator ron johnsoned the president after their visit to the inauguration of president zelensky of ukraine. according to bolton, he says he told bill barr in early august at some point after the call with zelensky in july that barr's name came up on the call and bolton had concerns about it. we got push back from barr's folks what we have so far from the white house, other than president trump's twitter feed is silence as to how they're going to address this. >> so, paggy, your reporting suggests john bolton has a lot to say? >> right, listen, i think that john bolton has put himself in a position where because he is doing this in the book, or attempting to do this in the book, has not said something publicly, other than his tweets from time to time, i think you will hear from people around the white house and the president's defenders that he is doing this to -- book sales, as we mentioned in our story, that is a concern for him, it looks like he health e held back on historic information in the middle

it contemporarys you to the events while he was having conversation with ambassador sondland and ron johnsonot an insignificant thing. the ukrainian officials have continuously from president zelensky that any pressure was with regard to that. and the aid got released -- >> three days after the president found out there was investigation into the aid. zelensky gets 90% of his military aid from the united states of america. so of course he's going to say there's no pressure even if there's pressure. it's hard to use those -- >> i don't think evidence really is of the sort of of course he was going to say that. the fact is what the facts are. and i think the most significant of which is the administration through omb and mick mulvaney all recognize that the aid was going to be only temporarily withheld. it was going to be released prior to the end of the fiscal year, and they knew they didn't have authority to extend it beyond that any further. and that's in fact -- >> that's why there was so much urgency on getting investigation. >> i'm not sure -- >> the investigation that everyone kept sayi

i shared concerns of the potential quid pro quo regarding the security aide with senator ron johnson. the leadership of the state department and the nfc informed of our activities and that included communications with secretary of state pompeo they knew what we were doing and why. everyone was in the loop again, everyone was in the loop. >> seth: think about that. he just said, "everyone was in the loop," which makes clear once again that these guys are the worst criminals in the world. they orchestrated an elicit scheme to pressure a foreign country to interfere in a presidential election. and they basically send out a staff wide email cc'ing everyone subject, crimes. hey all, we're doing crimes. wanted to make sure you all know about the crimes if you have questions about the crimes, please email crimes@whitehouse.gov/crimes [ laughter and applause sondland also said - [ applause ] he also said he reviewed other state department documents that had been previously not been made public, which must have scared the hell out of giuliani and trump. >> i have reviewed other state departmen

house record who actually spoke to the president about the aid, ambassador sondland and senator ron johnson. say the president was unequivocal in saying there was no quid pro quo. fifth, and this one's pretty obvious. the aid flowed, and president trump and president zelensky met without any investigations started or announced. finally, and i ask that you not lose sight of the big picture here. by providing legal aid to ukraine, president trump has proven himself to be a better friend and ally to ukraine than his predecessor. the time for the house managers to bring their case is now. they had their chance to develop their evidence before they sent the articles of impeachment to this chamber. this chamber's role is not to do the house's job for it. with that i yield the balance of my time to mr. cipollone. >> thank you, mr. chief justice. just a couple of observations. first of all, as mr. purpura said, all we are talking about is when this question is addressed under the resolution, and that'll be next week. this resolution was accepted 100-0. some of you were here then, thought it was gre

house record who actually spoke to the president about the aid, ambassador sondland and senator ron johnson. say the president was unequivocal in saying there was no quid pro quo. fifth, and this one is pretty obvious, the aid flowed and president trump and president zelensky met without any investigations started or announced. finally, and i ask that you not lose sight of the big picture here. by providing lethal aid to ukraine, president trump has proven himself to be a better friend and ally to ukraine than his predecessor. the time for the house managers to bring their case is now. they had their chance to develop their evidence before they sent the articles of impeachment to this chamber. this chamber's role is not to do the house's job for it. with that, i yield the balance of my time to mr. scipollone. >> thank you, mr. chief justice. just a couple of observations. first of all, as mr. purpura said, all we're talking about is when this question is addressed. under the resolution, that will be next week. this resolution was accepted 100-0. some of you were here then, thought it was gr

brian: gave all these interviews implicating ron johnson and lindsey graham.d over his phone that had a bunch of web sites that are porn and sex related. ainsley: do you know how many times we go to the way back machine? steve: i love that way back machine. ainsley: always proves democrats force something and change their mind because they hate this something so much. think about immigration. remember when they all voted for border security a long time ago and then the president comes into office, he wants to build the wall and border security. all of a sudden they are against it. steve: i was talking to somebody about this particular video and they said, you know, adam schiff, you know, when you look at that video, essentially hated john bolton until he needed him and now he loves him. it's just one of those things that happens in washington. something else that happenings in washington, they think about the big picture, marc thiessen did last night. i believe right here on the channel and he thinks that what is being played out on television screens all acro

. >> the president express to these precise concerns to senator ron johnson who wrote he reminded me how thoroughly corrupt ukraine was and again conveyed his frustrations europe doesn't give its fair share of providing military aid. the house managers didn't tell you about this. why not? president trump was right to be concerned other countries were not paying their fair share. as laura cooper testified, u.s. contributions to ukraine are far more significant than any other individual country and also said the funds tend to be on the economic side rather than the defense and security. senator johnson also confirmed theyon refuse to provide the lethal defensive weapons to ukraine needs in its war with russia. please keep in mind also because faof the security assistance program is far from unusual or out of character for president trump. thede american people know that the president is skeptical of foreign aid and that one of the top campaign promises in the priority in office has been to avoid wasteful spending of american taxpayer dollars abroad. meanwhile, the same people who today