pennsylvania. it is tempting to look at that slate for this year and think, something has gone wrong in a uniquely bad way. no political candidate has had to face candidate problems this bad. but as bad as it is right now, it has been worse. i swear. and i don t know if it is comforting to know that or the opposite. but hear me out. it has been worse. in the great state of in the, in the 30s, there was a really black and white corruption scheme in the u.s. government. and the state s governor was in on it and he got brought up on e federal corruption charges and he got convicted. and per an order from the supreme court, that conviction meant he had to be removed as the state s governor. it s amazing enough that he didn t resign as governor once
opposite. but hear me out. it has been worse. in the great state of in the, in the 30s, there was a really black and white corruption scheme in the u.s. government. and the state s governor was in on it and he got brought up on federal corruption charges and he got convicted. and per an order from the supreme court, that conviction meant he had to be removed as the state s governor. it s amazing enough that he didn t resign as governor once he was tried and convicted of multiple federal felonies, right? he was convicted. he didn t resign. in fact, he refused to leave office at all even though the court said he had to. despite the law, he said he was going to stay in office anyway. and he barricaded himself inside the governor s office. he physically barricaded himself in there and surrounded himself with his supporters. he then declared martial law in
shouldn t be about whether it is politically fraught or advantageous. thank you, ali. it was effective, right? we did not obtain a conviction in the senate but by holding him accountable in the first impeachment, we were actually able to shine a light on this effort to have ukraine put dirt on joe biden and we stopped it. ukraine was not able to ultimately run the campaign that donald trump was inviting them to run. shining a light, although it did not remove donald trump, it prevented ukraine from doing that. i just want to draw a distinction between what happened with ukraine, where you had fiona hill, lieutenant coming forward and they stopped that corruption scheme, we re now reading about all these actors who were preparing for a coup because donald trump was contesting the election, but they didn t have the gumption or the courage to come forward before the coup, they re telling their story now to vindicate themselves in books but had they done that perhaps
defenders, as we just played there from lindsey graham, are now wary of giuliani. what does he really claim to have found? yes, skepticism even from lindsey graham at the same time lindsey graham and some of his colleagues inviting some of the very witnesses involved in what rudy giuliani says he s uncovered. so he s been really crept tick about what exactly he is floating. we wanted to really dive into what he says he s learned. so the first bucket of allegations has to do with these two multibillion corruption schemes that he says he has uncovered and that he says the obama administration and former ambassador yovanovitch worked to cover up because it essentially would look bad for democrats. one was a $5.3 billion what he says was a corruption scheme involving wasted u.s. taxpayer dollars. so we took a hard look at that. it turns out the u.s. has never given $5.3 billion to ukraine. the top recipient of u.s. aid, israel, has ever only received about $3.8 billion. there was an acco