Page 32 - August 29th News Today

Knowledge, no. the bombshell turned out to be a dud. finally theres a man who replaced yovanovitch, acting diplomat bill taylor. >> bill taylor is the witness we are told the white house fears. because he tells a very clear story of what he saw as a shakedown, un-american shakedown of ukraine to get an investigation of the bidens. >> laura: swing and a miss. his closed-door testimony contained this inconvenient fact, congressman ratcliff says based on your knowledge no one in the ukrainian gover...

The bombshell turned out to be a dud. t finally theres a man who replaced yovanovitch, acting diplomat bill taylor. >> bill taylor is the witness we are told the white house fears. because he tells a very clear story s of what he saw as a shakedown, un-american shakedown of ukraine to get an investigation of the bidens. >> laura: swing and a miss. his closed-door testimony contained this inconvenient fact, congressman ratcliff says based on your knowledge no one in the ukrainian government becam...

First-person cable back to secretary pompeo. and im quoting now from his testimony. i wrote and transmitted such a cable on august 29th describing the folly i saw in withholding military aid to ukraine at a time when hostilities were still active in the east and when russia was watching closely to gauge the level of american support for the ukrainian government. i told the secretary that i could not and would not defend such a policy. so what he was seeing by that time was what he testified he f...

In the long-standing policy would change and helicopter a rare first-person cable back to secretary pompeo. im quoting from his testimony. i wrote and transmitted such a cable august 29th describing the folly i saw in withholding military aid for ukraine when russia was watching closely to gauge the level of american support for the ukrainian government and told the secretary i could not and would not defend such policy. so what he was seeing by that time was what he testified he first heard abo...

Youre losing the process argument. you want a substance argument? bring it on, adam schiff, because we know the ukraine didnt even ask about a hold on eight until august 29th, that was released shortly thereafter. you know what, the united states of america had to get off ukraine in order to release the hold on it? nothing! >> laura: the opinions of people listening in on the conversation -- at the president knew were listening, those opinions of a transcript we already have are supposed to run ...

York times," he stated that the failure in my view of the state department to offer support to foreign service employees caught up in the impeachment inquiry in crane. pompeo denies that characterization in that event. >> george, again, i am not going to get into the personal matters inside the state department. i did not hear him say a single thing about his concerns. >> reporter: perhaps the most stunning revelation involving pompeo extending beyond how he treated those who worked for him. bil...

They were being with held from the white house summit. that is something very important to the president because that imposes some legitimacy on him and shows that the united states faces the ukraine and so it was very important accomplishment for them to have achieved in the first few months of zelensky being in office and the president was with holding that from them in favor of launching these political investigations so when you put that on top of the with holding military aid a very clear p...

You know, white house scandals is theres no one in the white house who has said anything but the president told me to do it. so we know the punchline. but the democrats have to build this case. >> lets not exclude another key player mike pompeo. we also know from taylors testimony that on august 29th he sent a memo as directed by john bolton to pompeo expressing his concern about the, quote, folly that he sees playing out. he said in his testimony that he knows that secretary of state pompeo rec...

♪ secretary of state mike pompeo was in his home state of kansas again yesterday, sat down for an interview with mcclatchys "wichita eagle" and "the kansas city star" in which he mostly deflected questions on ukraine and syria. >> bill taylor told congress this week he sent you a cable on august 29th expressing his misgivings in the delay of military aid to ukraine. what did you do with that cable? >> im not going to talk about the ukraine this morning. >> reporter: did you relate his concer...

Those nearly 50 republicans that are sitting all -- that are part of the impeachment inquiry thats sitting in those three committees that are part of this impeachment inquiry, that also includes mike pences brother. hes part of this hearing as well. it includes the republican leader in the house. so its all -- theyre outcry say total and complete joke. and this is the gop ha poc yypo that were seeing. >> and mike pompeo was in his home state of kansas yesterday. sat down with an interview in whi...