tonight. i start the book tour later this week. you can find out more at msnbc.com/blowout. if you want to see me talk about the book, if you want to see me in person, on my crutches on a stage somewhere, i think at this point there s only one stop on the book tour that is not sold out, and that is the one stop in atlanta. so i think that there are still tickets available in atlanta even though every place else in the country is sold out i m sorry about that, but happy for atlanta. if you want to see me there, tickets still available there. while i am getting ready for this launch, though, getting ready to spend a couple weeks out in the world talking about ukraine and corruption and u.s. politics and russia and where this impeachment scandal came from in the first place, there is also tonight some new news about the president s envoy to ukraine, the envoy who just suddenly quit the day after the whistle-blower complaint came out. he quit just hours after he
list and investigated in kentucky. but you think the most impressive evidence for how important it is to get the sanctions lifted is how much time and attention vladimir putin has put to the issue. as you very rightly described in your opening remarks today, it is a central talking point that he does all the time, and they ve always thought that some day, some way, president trump would finally deliver on what he promised during the campaign in 2016. in terms of how barr is approaching this, this new news, not very much surprises me anymore. i was legitimately surprised to see this report in the washington post that the reason that william barr was meteorologist in italy this past week is because he s been personally working the italian government try to get them to cooperate in this investigation, that they re hoping will undo the attribution of them
and congressman hunter each plead not guilty at the time remarkable after pleading not guilty, both collins and hunter did win re-election in their deep red districts in 2018. that s where we left this story until today. ahead of an expected change of plea to guilty in federal court tomorrow. congressman chris collins resigned from congress today. the congressman part of this story is over. but we do still have donald trump, the real donald trump on the record with one of his most brazen attacks on the rule of law, attacking the indictment of those two republican members of congress, one of whom has now resigned is reportedly about to plead guilty. it s not the first time donald trump revealed how he feels about how the law should be applied while he s president and for what purpose. it was one of the bluntest and most shocking and it will come
before anybody knew about president trump pressuring ukraine to dig up dirt on his political rivals for 2020 a good month before that story broke open, two journalists in ukraine sat down with the u.s. special counsel envoy to that country. they sat down with kurt volker in august and & asked him about rudy giuliani and why it was that rudy giuliani was being spotted in ukraine so much and what exactly he was doing there. he is not representing the u.s. government. he is a private citizen. i just think that we need to get anything that people have any concerns about anywhere off the table because the u.s./ukraine vip too important. just the final question to
attacking our election. he asked president trump to make this call to the leader of australia to ask for australian cooperation in this probe as well. obviously when there are law enforcement investigations with an international cast, it s not unheard of to have international cooperation and to have it asked for by the u.s. government. but this with the attorney general personally showing up in foreign countries asking for help on this incredibly politicized thing, as a former ambassador, how unusual is that? how will foreign countries react to that? well, i think i made a great point. it s not unusual for us to cooperate with the italians or the australians about an intelligence matter or national security matter. but we re usually doing it to deal with countries like russia, with vladimir putin. we re not usually negotiating our own intelligence agencies. that s what is so extraordinary and sad to me about this reporting. and it just underscores how obsessed president trump is with