we ll get to all of that tonight including the new news from the wall street journal which nbc news just matched. the wall street journal now nbc news reporting that secretary of state mike pompeo was personally listening in on the call that has now led to these impeachment proceedings against president trump. i mean, unless mike pompeo is himself the whistle-blower, that means that he was aware in real time that president trump had personally blocked military aid to ukraine and then when that country s president brought up the need for u.s. military aid in a phone call with president trump, president trump responded by saying i would like you to do us a favor, though. that s when he asked that foreign leader for help with items on his personal wish list, including some sort of law enforcement or legal proceeding against his potential 2020 democratic opponent, joe biden. now tonight we ve got news that the secretary of state was listening in on that call while that ask from the pre
and that is remarkable. i mean, pompeo s own department, the state department, had signed off on that military aid going to ukraine. he knows that, right? and then he hears with his own ears the president essentially making that aid contingent on him getting this favor about what ukraine can do to dirty up joe biden for the next election. the secretary of state knows that and says nothing about it? again, of course unless he s the whistle-blower, i mean he is e cia. i don t think he is the whistle-blower. but now in addition to the president, the secretary of state is up to his neck in this impeachment scandal. he is there alongside this guy, the attorney general of the united states, william barr. the washington post has an actually shocking report tonight about the attorney general, william barr, personally traveling around the globe personally trying to get foreign governments to help him in an inquiry that the white house
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is the bigger thing to woat wor here, president trump has quietly been working to get ukraine to settle with russia to end this war. quote, mr. trump has quietly been urging a deal to reduce tensions between ukraine and russia that would pave the way for a removal of western sanctions on moscow, long a goal of mr. putin s mr. trump hinted that was his goal when asked about president zelensky. president trump told reporters, quote, i think he s going to make a deal with president putin, and he will be invited to the white house. he makes a deal with putin and that gets listen invitation to the white house? the u.s. president is quietly and maybe not so quietly too trying to get ukraine to make a deal with russia. on putin s terms. russia invaded ukraine in 2014. they shouldn t get to settle this on their terms, but that s what president trump is trying
formidable of women it s precise, effective, it s got good range, it s sort of imminently usable. it can destroy tanks and oormtd vehicles and helicopters. the javelin is primarily used by u.s. soldiers, but as of last year it has also been used by the ukrainian military as a way of fending off russian forces and russian-backed forces pushing further into the eastern part of ukraine, which russia has been occupying. ukraine got those missiles from the united states last year. but there was something a little bit hinkey about that last year. last year while president trump s campaign manager, paul manafort was on trial in the u.s., he was also the subject of four separate criminal investigations in ukraine stemming from his work for that country s former pro-russian leader. those investigations into paul manafort dofd tailed into some of the investigation robert mueller was doichlkts he ultimately charged paul manafort