nancy pelosi. what does she have as a top line this morning? nancy pelosi held her weekly press conference. she does it every thursday. she started by talking about policy, making the point that house democrats, she says, have passed 275 bills that have effectively died on the desk of majority leader mitch mcconnell, the top senate republican. she talked about that and then the news of the day, which is impeachment. she didn t give much in the way of a timeline. i ll get to that later. i asked her about this point. there was a time it s hard to belief n believe now there was a time when nancy pelosi wouldn t utter the phrase impeachment inquiry because she didn t fully embrace it and she thought to say that phrase in public would give it relevance and significance. she said that one of the reasons she was cautious about approaching impeachment, this is well before september 24th when the formal inquiry was announced, she said it was a long and arduous process, that democrats woul
exactly. i want to get the ukrainian voice in here. imagine how this feels to president zelensky. he just won re-election on an anti-corruption campaign. massive landslide election. then his party won a massive landslide election in the paraphernalia party. 80% of the deputies were thrown out, a place known for corruption. brand-new start, now they re being asked to do the very things that we told them you shouldn t do, which is you use your prosecutor general to use ther rule of law for political purposes. now they re set up to do that. from a policy point of view, you re sending exactly the opposite message. we heard a lot yesterday about how president trump wants to fight corruption in ukraine. that was news to me. if you re trying to do that, is your first move out of the block withou the brand-new
you fire mccomey, mccabe, you gin up a prosecution of mccabe, which they were criticized for in open federal court. you oust the ukraine ambassador. there s a lot of removing the people who would be good cops, trying to put bad cops in charge, and there are bad cops, they re still cops, and then also having an outside channel. on the mueller example, we know he went to the outside channel and asked lewandowski who did not, according to mueller s people, commit a crime. he asked lewandowski to commit a crime, he said yeah, boss, and didn t do it. there s the shadow, the shadow, the policy, and still hatchet people, fixers, shadow, who are agitating on the outside. it s hard to pull off this plot with those people we saw today, the hills, you know, bill taylors in charge. so you re doing both. how would fiona hill relate
everyone should be agreeing on which is we were attacked. trump doesn t agree. i understand that. that s where you have the white house saying there s a ukraine conspiracy, and how do you decouple it if the head of our country doesn t accept the fact? that is a good point. but you do have the senate actually coming up with a bipartisan report saying that russia has attacked us. it is incumbent on elected officials to follow their oath of office in the same way that people who have testified today are following their oath of office, which is really apolitical. you would think we re all americans first,we you would thk that our first allegiance is are we underll attack? the secondary issue is does it help one sideis or the other? is somebody else here involved in it? those are important questions. but the main issue is what do you do about the fact that you know the russians attacked the
bolton on that critical july 10th day, just yesterday sondland said i don t remember john bolton being upset. we took a picture. it was great. he went upset. she doesn t say exactly the same thing as lieutenant colonel vind mvin vindman, but she does move the dial to vindman s side away from sondland on this. she says no, his back stiffened. that was the kind of detail that is enough to say sondland was not being forthcoming on what i saw in thatom meeting. and this is important to your point. it does put john bolton right back in the middle of this. and most substantively and importantly saying this was wrong. this was a drug deal, i want to make sure lawyers know i m not