Unnerving subplot of the impeachment drama is the fact that the president and his lawyer for doing the thing the president is being impeached for. in fact an excellent new yorker piece, rudy giuliani admits a key part of the plot. he says he spearheaded getting rid of marie yovanovitch because she stood in the way of his scheme. i believe i needed yovanovitch out of the way. that s partly what president trump s impeachment is about. this sichbl servient-to be removed so they could hold back nearly $400 million in military aid until investigations into the bidens were announced.
Unnerving subplot of the impeachment drama is the fact that the president and his personal lawyer rudy giuliani are continuing to do the thing that the president is being impeached for, part of the thing. just out in the open. in fact, today in this just fascinating and excellent new yorker piece about one of the ex-prosecutors of the center of the ukraine story, rudy giuliani admits a key part of the plot. he says he spearheaded getting rid of a former ambassador of ukraine marie yovanovitch because she stood in the way of his scheme. i believe i needed yovanovitch out of the way. she was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody. that scheme is partly what rudy giuliani s two associates are indicted for. it s partly what president trump s impeachment is about. this civil servant, marie yovanovitch, had to be removed so they could undergo their corrupt extortion plot holding back nearly $400 million in aid to ukraine until it announced
Syria and ultimately ending with the killing of baghdadi. that s kind of thousand plays into hollywood. what s going on with the oscars voting, whether that kind of a subplot if it will appeals to hollywood i guess we will find out in ha couple days. ainsley: tell us who you are up against. a number of films out there some of which outstanding and my personal gave i have the apollo, the story the trip to the moon. using archive footage from nasa. also great world war i documentary out there and there is some others you have listed as well. ainsley: knock down the house. aoc. and obamas produced american factory. what s it like to be a conservative in hollywood. look. i think people under estimate how many conservatives there actually are in hollywood. if you want to be successful in hollywood to not be conservative upfront. but, of course, there are many conservatives that have come out. james woods and comes to mind scott baio among others. hollywood donated $84 million during the 2016 election cycle. only 20% of that did not go
When she talked when she admonished the lawmakers about partisanship and how that is not just making it difficult to get things done in washington but it s eroding american faith in democracy. it really let you know that there was there out of a sense of duty and certainly not out of a sense of helping one side or the other. you know, tim, i thought a subplot in the last two weeks was sort of the intersection of donald trump s attack on immigrants, legal and illegal. i mean, the smears against colonel vindman. you know, basically accusing him of espionage on fox news. the smears against him this week. i thought one of her most eloquent and underplayed comments was her defense of americans by choice. yeah. well, i got to do a disclaimer. i m such a big fiona hill fan, i m ready to amend the constitution to a foreigner can run the government. no, i agree with you. she had this earnestness of an immigrant, right? there is the zeal of the
Become the republican party and the identity that has assumed itself in the trump era and its inability for anyone in it to put the brakes on. you see a lot of breaks on the democratic side and a lot of division and arguments. we ll fete in a break here. as we go to break, a guy who will be part of the subplot we re watching on stage tonight, and we talk about when tonight is over. that is because if you believe the numbers, he has jumped to the top in iowa and new hampshire, and there he is, mayor pete of the great state of indiana. his husband chastin, and there s the ubiquitous chris matthews, the official greeter of all candidates tonight. we re within 15 minutes of the start time. we ll be seeing all of the democrats on stage when we come back. stage when we come back
i find it amusing he actually deafly used michael bloomberg here in an odd way. i wonder if we re a week away from bloomberg setting up a super pac for deval patrick. no video and no visit. i think deval launched as a traditional candidate. he has his video. he went to new hampshire. he is going to be in the game. bloomberg s not doing that. i think betsy is right. this speaks to a great uncertainty among not just democratic donors but democratic elites about the field. worries about biden but also worries about warren and sanders. and it also speaks to kind of the weird nature of this primary, which is that the three vote leaders, biden, warren, sanders, each appeal to different parts of the democratic coalition and do very well within that part. but have not been able to break out into any of the other sectors. patrick v. warren is going to be an interesting subplot for a little while. here s deval patrick asked this morning about the wealth tax. i think a wealth tax is
Representation. that itself is fascinating and as yet untold subplot here. the way the president s imprisoned former campaign chairman is at the heart soft many tend realrals. we talked about this interesting filing made with a federal court in new york. the court handling lev and igor lawyer, he wrote to the judge in the case asking for a hearing today because the lawyer said he had new information with which he want today try to persuade the judge that his client should no longer have the onerous bail conditions. specifically he no longer wanted his client to be under house arrest or to wear a gps monitoring device on his ankle. so igor and his council agreed to the exact bail conditions a week ago. so it is intriguing, sort of weird, they re writing the judge
With paul manafort s lawyers for his legal representation. that itself is a fascinating and as yet untold subplot here. the way the president s imprisoned former campaign chairman seems to be right at the heart of so many tendrils of this impeachment scandal. but last night you might remember here on the show we talked about this interesting filing that was made with a federal court in new york, the court handling lev and igor s case. in that filing igor s lawyer wrote to the judge in the case because the lawyer said he had new information of which he wanted to try to persuade the judge that his client should no longer have these onerous bail conditions. specifically he no longer wanted his client to be under house arrest or nor have to keep wearing a gps monitoring device on his ankle. igor and his counsel had agreed to those exact bail conditions only a week ago. so it s intriguing, sort of weird they were writing the
His legal representation. that itself is a fascinating and as yet untold subplot here. the way the president s imprisoned former campaign chairman seems to be right at the heart of so many tendrils of this impeachment scandal. but last night you might remember here on the show we talked about this interesting filing that was made with a federal court in new york, the court handling lev and igor s case. in that filing igor s lawyer wrote to the judge in the case because the lawyer said he had new information of which he wanted to try to persuade the judge that his client should no longer have these onerous bail conditions. specifically he no longer wanted his client to be under house arrest or nor have to keep wearing a gps monitoring device on his ankle. igor and his counsel had agreed to those exact bail conditions only a week ago. so it s intriguing, sort of
And ultimately, that information, a key part of this investigation, winding up with the president. which is now a critical part of this investigation. specifically, the firing, the removal of the uk the ambassador to the ukraine, marie yovanovitch and what role giuliani and these two men split had in it. and the other thing, their relationship with rudy giuliani. that now a critical part as well of this investigation. exactly what was their relationship, their financial dealings, and what other kind of dealings and relationship did rudy giuliani have with these two men? that is now part of this investigation. it is all a subplot to the impeachment investigation. or it might actually be part of the plot, the main plot. shimon prokupecz, thank you for your reporting. keep us posted. this dramatic deposition from the top diplomat in ukraine