into the contents of the whistleblower, it will be reaching a great level of lawlessne lawlessness, end quote. i don t know if the whistleblower complaint is on this allegation, but if it is, and even if it isn t, why doesn t the president just say release the whistleblower complaint? if the president is withholding military aide at the same time he is trying to browbeat a foreign leader to do something illicit which is providing dirt on his opponent during a presidential campaign, then that may be the only remedy that is co-equal to the evil that conduct represents. today the president once again defended his call with the ukranian leader, describing that conversation as perfect, and admitted that he raised questions about the former vice president during the call. is it okay with the ukranian
senate-approved appropriations for your committee, that s a business of extortionlike shakedown and that could violate that statute. it s a stretch, but the camp aid finance thing seems much more clear, and the abuse of office, the impeachable offense stuff that s been talked about all day today, is where that derives from. so it could be illegal but an abuse of office at the same time. interesting. michael zeld in, thank you so much for joining us. let s talk about the politics of this now. alana is a cnn political analyst. thank you both for being here. thanks, martin. alana, let me start with you. should the president be concerned about this new round of impeachment talk if the white house doesn t share the whistleblower content with congress and doesn t make a transcript of the call public?
president trump just minutes ago answering questions about his call with ukraine s president last july. to be clear, there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by either hunter or joe biden according to the ukrainian prosecutors and this week congress is set to press the trump administration over the decision to block lawmakers from seeing a whistleblower report we know deals with that phone call. joining me now house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff, democrat of california. do you want to respond to what you just heard the president say, how biden had done something wrong and there was no quid pro quo in that conversation? if that is the case, why doesn t the president release the transcript of that call. i don t know whether the whistleblower complaint is on this allegation and if it is and even if it isn t, why doesn t the president say release the whistleblower complaint. clearly he s afraid for the public to see either one of those things and we re determined to make su
there isn t any sort of sweep or reform unless this president really steps forward and exerts capital to do so and giving republicans cover. there s no evidence he will do that and there s no sense he will take any step on a few small things in part that perhaps the nra won t support them but not oppose them too much but if he can get something across he won t be asked to do more. phil rucker, it s an imperfect parallel and comes to mind. after charlottesville, why doesn t he come out and rebuke david duke and every white nationalist and every white supremacist and everyone that comes close to representing that world view. this person said he doesn t want to deprive himself of a single voter. if he was too afraid of defending a white supremacist, what in god s name will he be doing to defend a gun enthusiast? there is nothing. in the aftermath of the el paso
seeds of division. he just did a 40 minute press in 90 degree weather. so what? the president gives access and you take lie about everything he says. i have never lied about this president in my life. you may not like what i say. that doesn t make it a lie. he lies all the time and you know it. go watch your last hour. taking stephanie grisham out of context and putting one story with another. show me what i lied about. it was not true. i ll give you a prize. you admit the truth about him, i ll give you two prizes. but you re still welcome on the show. i don t need prizes from the fake news media. you may have hurt me in inviting you back because if you can t admit he lied these people are never going to believe you. you should take a look in the mirror. i do and i don t like these lines. thanks for coming on the show.