i voted for the first tranche which is that $10.2 billion. the second tranche was $40 billion. we have spent a total of $54 billion in ukraine. i voted against the last funding amount, there was no guardrails how the money would be spent. congress still hasn t gotten any information. i sit on foreign affairs committee. foreign affairs have not gotten information the actual weapons we transferred to get in ukrainian hands. have they been utilized? what is the status. have money gone to oligarchs in ukraine? we don t know. the administration is not answering the questions. there is no guardrails of the last funding tranche, $40 billion, more than customs border patrol, border protection coast guard combined we need to be focused on america first and not all the other issues throughout the world. rachel: is this the pentagon who is responsible for giving you this report? it s the state department and pentagon. they go back and forth the way
all right as i mentioned before the break, despite 15 months passing since george floyd s murder and a massive movement that took hold across the country, one of the biggest since the civil rights movement, congress still hasn t been able to get a police reform bill to president biden. joining me is democratic congresswoman barbara lee, a former chair of the congressional black caucus, a senior member of the house apprehensions committee. good to see you. good morning. thank you for being with us. let s talk about the bill. i recall several weeks ago hearing they were close, stuck on a couple of things but getting movement. and they were getting close. and then nothing happened. thank you for that question, ali. good morning. let me tell you, this is a bill that has to move forward. our negotiators, senator booker, congresswoman bass, snorp scott
trump pressured a foreign government to help his own political prospects and obstruction. a lot of witnesses were blocked from coming. congress still hasn t had access to some of the top witnesses they d like to see. the mueller report, which many people thought would initially be the basis for any impeachment proceedings we saw, has kind of fallen by the wayside except we had this ruling by don mcgahn who a judge said basically has to testify. and he s been blocked, and he could provide very valuable information to congress that could feed another article of impeachment on obstruction of justice if they go that route. so this is something again very fluid and a lot of members would like to see that factored into any impeachment they move f forward with. tonight, we ve got new reporting from the washington post that appears to contradict or at least cast doubt on one of president donald trump s central defenses in the impeachment
articles of impeachment. so, a very fast-moving situation. let s talk about the articles of impeachment. something you wrote tonight is that two articles of impeachment are virtually guaranteed to show up as features of the impeachment against the president. but that democrats are divided on whether to involve matters related to russia and the mueller investigation into this. tell me a bit about the dispute. right, so the ukraine investigation clearly honed in on the abuse of power argument. trump pressured a foreign government to help his own political prospects and obstruction. a lot of witnesses were blocked from coming. congress still hasn t had access to some of the top witnesses they d like to see. the mueller report, which many people thought would initially be the basis for any impeachment proceedings we saw, has kind of fallen by the wayside in this discussion, except that we now have this ruling in the mcgahn case, mueller s star wit uns, former white house counsel don mc
potential 2020 campaign rival. in other words, a president abusing his powers for political gain. so what is going to happen now? this is a very big story. the press has got to meet this moment. there is new calls for impeachment and so much more. we have a big show ahead. we have an all star panel standing by. let s begin in washington with one of the washington post reporters who broke this story. and also joining us, former washington post journalist, karl bernstein is with me. shane, what is the very latest on this whistle blower complaint. it amazes me and shocks me congress still hasn t seen it. is this an ongoing act of there certainly is a very full effort by this administration and i think by this white house to block that whistle blower complaint from getting to congress. we reported this week in the post that the white house counsel has always gotten