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Into the bidens, because what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened with, uh, with ukraine. [ inaudible question ] i havent, but its certainly something we can start thinking about. >> that really happened. if the first potential article of impeachment is ukraine, might china be article number 2? joining success matt mius is ma former chief justice spokesman. what did you think when you saw donald trump seek out and ask in the case of china, really threaten them with all the le...

Mentioned it was kind of cya text where theyre coming after us, this isnt a quid pro quo. but to involve all of these senior state department officials and send them off on behalf of the president is incredible. and then with respect to china, simply engaging with what i view as our greatest strategic and economic rival in the world and dragging them into our domestic politics and asking them to interfere in one of our elections is beyond comprehensionable. >> youve got diplomats quoted saying w...

Which has been in the news and reported yesterday or the day before actually that something called the ism manufacturing index had dropped for the second straight month into negative territory which signals contraction. this i think is almost entirely a phenomenon of the trade war. you can see that also in this yellow colored line down there which shows export orders also falling in the last two months. those are very sharply now in negative territory. and whats also interesting is that these al...

This is real leverage and the pressure put on ukraine was really extreme. i think this there is also something being missed and that is who is texting back and forth. two professional diplomats, volker and taylor. and sonlan, the guy trying to drive this train. his title is ambassador to the european union. but he is a hotel owner and a huge contributor to donald trumps campaign. he is the one that says lets get off of the text messages because he is trying to drive this train. the others are tr...

Out with credibility are the ukrainians. there is motorcycles where they come out on board with this. so it is the height of irony that were concerned about corruption, but it was the ukraine government that was pushing back in some respects. >> what stuck out to you about these exchanges. it is nots uncommon for the united states to use their leverage, but this is a leverage with a specific political agenda with the presidents clearest political foe in the upcoming election. and ukraine is a co...

Politics, its humiliating. its humiliating for america. and for the president. but i think the other thing that we cant get lost in this, is that there are now all kinds of countries around the world reviewing transcripts of phone calls with our president and trying to find evidence that they can use to leverage our president for the things that they want, whether thats our adversaries like china and russia or whether its ukraine. weve seen that they also have transcripts and readouts from this ...

But i think it also adds to the picture that were learning now from the texts that have come out that president trump did basically hijack u.s. policy towards ukraine for the sake of his partisan and personal interests. and used the possibility of a meeting with him as leverage against the president of ukraine in order to get him to launch this investigation against the bidens. and clearly the ukrainians were freaked out about this and the u.s. embassy was obviously put in a very uncomfortable p...

The source he relied on for information was not credible, and he perhaps did not rely on that. thats how that conversation transpired. again, this has been going on all day. there are a lot more details to learn. getting early glimpses of what happened. after the president of the united states talked to the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden, afterwards were hearing now that u.s. special envoy at the time to ukraine told the ukrainian government dont interfere in u.s. politics. >> i t...

Leverage of official policy of president of ukraine to dig up election dirt. rexless, unfounded smears against joe biden and his son. again, what the president is saying isnt true, but the formfor former vice president feels compelled to fire back. >> let me make something clear to president trump and his hatchet men and his attacks against me. im not going anywhere. you are not going to destroy me, and youre not going to destroy my family. i dont care how much money you spend, mr. president, or...

And suddenly clinton was my best friend and i was, like, leave bill clinton alone and you get crosscurrents in this thing and at the same time the democrats are in a lose-lose situation and if they dont do something their base will feel like trump get away too much and you divide the country further and you still dont stop the problem of interference. its a big mess. >> its a big mess. its possible that just everybody comes out of the works for wear. one point over the ukraine business. its clea...