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Refuses to talk about it at all. but north korea, to be fair, he has been consistent in the sense that he s been very, very critical behind the scenes, which we ve reported during his time in the administration, about president trump s diplomacy with kim jong-un. bolton never agreed with that. if you remember, i mean, this is not exactly an issue that he s been shy about. in the past he advocated for preemptive strikes against north korea, military action. it s something he feels pretty strongly about. you could speculate about why he s coming out now, and i m sure some people will be cynical and that s fair enough. i just don t have first-hand knowledge of his motivations. all right, jonathan swan, has always good reporting. thank you, my friend. you can sign up for the newsletter at signup.axios.com. that s a wrap for us on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. we ll have an economy based ....
Its backup saying we passed a law. you can t just do this on the fly and say no. what else are we learning. i agree that it s more details on the time line. when it comes to raising more questions, i mean, it s just another reminder of the fact that democrats still don t have first-hand knowledge from mulvaney or from the omb director who actually made that direction to hold the aid and why he did so. we know that it was unusual and unorthodox and testimony has shown that omb took this decision out of the hands of a career employee, put it in the hands of a political person. but we heard testimony, people say they believe it was sort of leverage on this investigation in ukraine. but we haven t heard from people like mick mulvaney who actually were he was the one who directed the aid be held or the omb director. the president said in a tweet this morning he would love for these people to testify. so would democrats. it s right there on the internet. of course he doesn t wa ....
Not testify, will not provide documents, but the thing is, it s a farce that they don t have any first-hand witnesses. they have first-hand witnesses. they have david holmes, who heard the transaction actually being completed through the phone. he heard d got the investigation. you have fiona hill who was in the meeting with gordon sondland when he said we have a deal. so it is not accurate to say that they don t have first-hand information. it s just that the republicans don t see the political imperative of moving on this right now. when you saw will hurd do what he did, i think we all knew at that moment there is not going to be movement in the gop. michael, you nodded your head on the will hurd moment. it s just one. if you re going to get anyone the was him. today is another day where everything happened and nothing changed. we still look like we re on track for a party line or almost party line vote to pass articles of impeachment in the house. ....
Do any of you doubt what they said? yet not all of you think it was a bad day for the president. they said some things that were pretty negative about the president. they did. but they were only able to say what they heard or what they gleaned through multiple different venues. that s what i mean about the president not planning evidence to defend himself. that lead me to this question. you set it up very well. it s a catch 22, isn t it? republicans are saying you don t have first-hand knowledge. the trump administration isn t letting people with first hand only in testify. does that trouble you? yes. definitely. it reminds me of the secret courts of russia where i was born. you had people during the soviet union time they weren t allowed to bring them forward because the witnesses might discredit the government. i think the evidence, that was solidified in the answer. did you think the white house was making a mistake by telling ....
Right, left and center at this point. you ivan see democratic members of congress left wing liberals out there saying hey, this is no way to express your opinion, come forward, put your authorship on it lots of folks upset with the new york times in the media who are saying well, it better be somebody really super senior or else they would not have granted anonymity. i don t know who it is. i know their type and their type is very unimpressive. somebody who doesn t have the courage to come forward and say this is my opinion. this is how i feel. i think in large part because they don t have first-hand knowledge of what they are writing. this is not the president i know as described. this is not the decisionmaker and leader that i m around every single day. there are those of us who are here because we believe in the president s agenda and we respect the fact that he is executing every day under these circumstances to boot. the accomplishments of this president in the first 20 months w ....