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Something that may put flynn in prison. we have also seen the post just a few weeks ago in an editorial breaking the news about president trump delaying aid to ukraine to make them give him dirt on joe biden. the not that has lead to these very serious impeachment proceedings against the president, now as they go forward on serious footing, the washington post editorial page appears to do it once again. it is from david ignatius. and he raises the prospect that this scheme may have been round two for president trump and ukraine. he may have done this exact thing once before with ukraine before...

President, according to david g ignatius in 2017, they tried to get better contacts with the new american add min station. they were paying to try to get into the white house. they wanted contacts with the new trump folks. according to david ignatius they hired a group and nothing was happening. then in june 2017, the door opened. why? well here is something we didn't know before, june 7th, rudy giuliani visited ukraine, kiev, and me met with the president there and a prosecutor, and who knows what was said at that meeting, but within a couple of days for some strange reason,

Column, remember when i first read that column in january 2017, there was a bolt from the flu. this is what he said, michael t flynn, trump's choice cultivates close rub shan contacts. he has appeared on russia today and received a speaking fee from the cable network that was striebed in last night's intelligence briefing as the kremlin's criminal propaganda outlet. according to an official, he phoned kislyak several times. what did flynn say and did it under cut the sanctions? ignatius said we ought to know the facts. that was the first we knew about mike flin having secret communications. an...

David mentioned, the increased politicization and the morale factor, if you will, of the intelligence community if someone like john ratcliffe is confirmed. rank and file workers there not to be partisan. does ratcliffe need to prove in order to get confirmed by the senate -- you know him a little bit. can he possibly be an unbiased leader of such an important intelligence agency? >> i do know him, ayman. we served together as u.s. attorneys. if you asked me a couple of days before the mueller hearing what i thought of john, i would have told you although i don't share his politics i thought h...

Serious confirmation difficulties. there will be flags raised, though. and not least because dan coats, frankly, is beloved by many of his senate colleagues. he is a two-time senator and last of the kind of old guard to serve in the trump cabinet. the last of the so-called grown-ups around him in the national security cabinet and there will be senators, burr included, who want the white house to think carefully about that. >> david there's an interesting aspect to all of this. there's some uncertainty about who will bridge the gap between coats and ratcliffe's confirmation. interestingly enoug...