former clinton officials request a meeting with state department undersecretary. email communications between the firm and state department noted hunter biden is a burisma board member and they wanted to convince the obama administration that it hadn t engaged in corruption and wants to change the view of the company in washington. in march 2016 the former vice president threatened to hold back $1 billion in aid if the ukrainian president doesn t fire the prosecutor accusing him of corruption. biden recounted the conversation years later. i said it was 6 hours, in 6 hours, the prosecutors not fired you are not getting the money. hunter and his father deny any wrongdoing in ukraine but it is a dogfight on the campaign trail. congressman mark walker of north
for cnn and does democrat fundraiser and we knew there was a group of people that hated this president they wanted an insurance policy and he got fired for lying and then he has the audacity to turn around and use again anonymous hearsay at this evidence of impeachment. people are sick of this i don t have to tell you that. this doesn t fire anybody up other than left wingers who are already moving to another candidate other than joe biden, whether it s elizabeth warren or bernie sanders. ed: there is another i word, israel. that s where you are right now you re filming two specials coming up the battle en bethlehem and the battle in the holy land and i noticed on twitter you were trying to talk to a pro-palestinian voice and there was an interesting map you found in your reporting. pete: yes there was a globe inside where we were meeting and on it in the world i moved it over to this region and israel was scratched out with a sharpie , so ultimately that s part of the view that you se
i ve come to figure out going across the country in texas, in iowa, in oklahoma, in kansas that you can run on background checks and you are not going to be punished. the moms will have your back. it was always used as a tactic for keeping us from doing anything on it. how do you think this idea of gun-control legislation, doesn t fire up the left or the right base more? both sides get fired up but why democrats keep going after law-abiding citizens? we have constitutional right to bear arms. i have 5 guns and i m more safe because of it and i m tired of them doing this. do things that will actually make a difference? that is what we could do, go after people who have mental incapacity to do so? why don t we target people who are here illegally and purchase guns? democrats keep voting against that. if he was there, mister swalwell
house painting or something like that. one of the under covered, maybe you can t cover it is the anecdotal evidence that the more trump is on tv speaking in this election frame mode, race, mentioning race subtly, immigration, the wall, the more it drives the early vote. it s fascinating and it s i think a broader question, too, the more trump is dominating things and the more he s dominating it by the being trump style, the leaning into cultural conflict and that sort of thing, it doesn t fire up the base but does it have a negative effect on the reluctant trump voters. the ones in the closing days of the 2016 race came on board because they didn t like hillary clinton, they generally liked the republican party and want to be with the republican party and in the closing days of the 2016 campaign trump s handlers managed to take his phone away from him and he was reading scripts at rallies. in the closing days of 2018 it s not that. it s something very different.
has to do with the recent testimony he gave to mueller or not, but i do think that could create tension. because the president wants someone who is a yes man, who will do what he wants to do, and mcgahn was not that and never going to be that. another interesting note from this jim acosta reporting, the chief white house correspondent, as for why trump doesn t just fire mcgahn, the source says it is typical trump. he whines about people but doesn t fire them like with jeff sessions. i think that s a very good point. and another line from jim acosta s reporting is obviously the fact that mcgahn had thought about or had at least threatened to resign in order to prevent trump from firing mueller. i think it is just another reminder that for so many people who work directly for the president, especially in the high-profile positions, so much of their jobs is about trying to prevent the president from shooting himself in the foot. and a lot of people, even the people who are loyal to hi