calculations, it s hard to imagine that trump is going to go down as anything other than a pretty extraordinary and disruptive president. and yet no republicans, not a single one in the house of representatives have raised their hand to say, like, i want an investigation. today s vote wasn t even a vote on whether or not to impeach him. it was simply a vote to say i would like an investigation, i would like public hearings, i would like to have a process in place. you know, when they had a vote in the bill clinton proceedings there were 31 democrats who joined republicans in saying we would like to move forward with this even though a number of those did not ultimately vote for bill clinton s impeachment. i think it tells you where we are in term of our politics where you couldn t get one person other than justin amash who broke with trump earlier this year, he tweeted out to his fellow republicans, hey, history
theme. you mention clinton. he goes on and says everybody knows i did nothing wrong. clinton did things wrong. nixon did things wrong. i won t go to johnson because that was before my time. he s comparing himself to the other presidents. how does that stack up? it won t be a surprise if i tell you that he s wrong. what we re seeing in the material that s come out from the investigation so far. i m talking about things publicly available. not the transcript. this is the key. yes we have gotten leaks from democrats. leave those aside. look at the testimony the statements that have been released. and the call transcript. summary. that s enough for you to see the pattern of abuse of power. which fits neatly into the second article of impeachment against nixon.
communications with the ukrainians bypassing the state department. giuliani who the president wanted to talk to when he requested an investigation of democrat joe biden, saying in a phone call if you could speak to him, that would be great. and you ll ony who continues to claim with zero proof that russian interference was not the fbi did everything they could to keep this information away. the president s defense of giuliani has been at times strong, at times tepid as giuliani s behavior has careened into the surreal. for example this week when he attacked democrats for their probe into trump s actions but tweeted he trump did ask for an investigation. or when he apparently butt dialled an nbc reporter who
ukrainians he was working with, what is going on? it s still unclear. that s why investigators are still unclear, why the sdny, why the fbi has taken some of this on. clearly he got in trump s ear and started telling him this stuff about ukraine and maybe trump started buying into it or thought it was a good campaign strategy or what have you to investigate. we shall see that s part of what they re trying to figure out. it s interesting he would have you ll yawny just going off as a loose canon freelancing this stuff. shimon, you have some new reporting on what prosecutors in new york are looking into. giuliani s ukraine business dealings as it relates to the 2020 election. that investigation is still ongoing. what we ve been told are the prosecutors are very concerned about the timing here. we re getting into the 2020 election. they re very concerned about
his supporters have bought from him which is this idea of brooech grievance. the talks in washington screwed everything in america up. screwed you trump supporters and now they re trying to do it again attacking president trump. and he will be able to sort of spin that and use it as a campaign fuel. the problem is that if you re a democrat in congress, you have to do your constitutional job which from their point of view is proceeding with this impeachment investigation. it s interesting he is gotten people to believe they are grieved. when really to vote against their own interest. that s fascinating. remember the infamous call with ukraine it happened the day after mueller testimony on capitol hill. he learned nothing from the whole mueller investigation. including what this upheaval does to the country. interesting. i was at an event last night in