so laura, what was the biggest revelation in the past three days? the biggest revelation was there was the quid pro quo. it is an interesting revelation. we knew that this was the expected fact pattern and to hear it through the televised hearing was the most important aspect of it because remember, you have to get the public support behind the discussions about the impeachment and what was extraordinarily riveting is it came from someone who still works in the administration, and gordon sondland and the ambassador to the european union who is at center of this controversy and here he is saying, hold on, for anyone who does not believe that everyone was in the loop, i m here to tell you, everyone knew about it and he implicated everyone like pompeo, bolton, and vice president mike pence, as well and it left the question out there which was if all of these people had first-hand information and knew something about it why haven t we heard from them and is the argument that the gop memb
giuliani was leading them down was not in the best interests of the country. it was in the personal interests of the actors, but not in the national interests. anita, the criticism is why haven t we heard what has been happening behind the closed doors, what are they now we have many of the transcripts. there are still more. will that satisfy the back and forth on the hill and around the white house? we will see these public testimonies starting wednesday. and so the argument by house republicans and by the president that this is all secretive, the criticism of the process, kind of go by the wayside because they will hear exactly what that testimony is. we have seen these depositions, these interview, the transcripts. but if you are house republicans, if you are the president, they have argued while the process has been
seen, why haven t we heard what has been happening behind these closed doors? what are they saying? now, we have all the we have many of the transcripts. right? anita, of what has been said. there s still yet more. will this satisfy that back and forth on the hill and around the white house? you know, i mean, we re going to see these public testimonies starting wednesday, as you mentioned. and so the argument by house republicans and by the president that this is all secretive, the criticisms of the process kind of go by the wayside a little bit, right? because they re going to hear exactly what that testimony is. we ve seen these depositions, these you know, these interviews, these transcripts. so some of that goes by the wayside. but if you re house republicans, if you re the president, they have argued, well, the process has been flawed the last six weeks. you can t go back and take that back. you started it in a bad way and it s been flawed from the beginning. now, as you men
this continues. final thoughts before we let you go. what s interesting. i went back and read the whistleblower s complaint. he says more than half a dozen people gave him information over a four-month time period that is forming the basis of his complaint. we have yet to hear from those half dozen people with firsthand knowledge. why haven t we heard from them in adam schiff s unfair process and only hearing from other witnesses who have what appears to be no firsthand knowledge that was what was supposed to be the basis of the charade we re going through and why haven t we heard from the inspector general? all done behind closed doors in the intelligence committee. i would like to the inspector general to be in for an interview so i can ask him some questions. jon: thank you. sandra: thank you. jon: progressive democrat alexandria ocasio-cortez ripping into moderate 2020 candidate pete buttigieg over big money donors. how mayor pete is pushing back.
it made me sick. how did it make you sick. you don t expect presidents to do that and it was completely inappropriate and frankly it borders on it doesn t border, it was an outrageous thing, he should have never done that. but, come on, alisyn, what are we surprised by. the president does things but this is inappropriate for a president to do. so why haven t we heard from more of your republican colleagues? well, i think the vote in the senate, by the way, that unanimous that all of this information should be investigated, i think is a former powerful statement. i m not quite sure i said i thought it happened because some would get off the reservation and mcconnell didn t want them off the reservation and they voted that unanimously and a lot of action on capitol hill and this is the way it ought to work. now the senate intelligence and house intelligence committee beginning to see things. let the chips fall where they may.