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>>> THE EDITORIAL PAGES ARE NOT
USUALLY WHERE YOU TURN TO GET
THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS BUT IN
THE CASE OF "THE WASHINGTON
POST" DURING THE TRUMP ERA THAT
HAS OFTEN TURNED OUT TO BE THE
CASE.
CASE. WE’VE SEEN "THE WASHINGTON POST"
IN ITS EDITORIALS AND COLUMNS
BREAK HUGE STORIES.
THE THE NEWS OF MICHAEL FLYNN
SECRETLY TALKING ABOUT
SANCTIONS, AND SOMETHING THAT
MAY YET PUT FLYNN IN PRISON.
THAT WAS A DAVID IGNACEOUS
COLUMN IN JANUARY 2017.
WE’VE ALSO SEEN "THE POST" JUST
A FEW WEEKS AGO IN AN EDITORIAL
BREAK THE NEWS ABOUT PRESIDENT
TRUMP TO GIVE THEM DIRT ON JOE
BIDEN, THE EXACT PLOT THAT HAS
NOW LED TO THESE VERY SERIOUS
IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST
THE PRESIDENT.
THE PRESIDENT. NOW AS THEY GO FORWARD ON
SERIOUS FOOTING, "THE WASHINGTON
POST" EDITORIAL PAGE APPEARS TO
HAVE DONE IT AGAIN.
ONCE AGAIN IT’S FROM COLUMNIST
DAVID IGNACEOUS, AND WE’VE GOT
SOMETHING NEW HERE.
IN HIS LATEST COLUMN HE RAISES
THE PROSPECT THIS SCHEME
CURRENTLY AT THE STROF THE HOUSE
IMPEACHMENT INVESTIGATION MAY
HAVE BEEN ROUND 2 FOR PRESIDENT
TRUMP AND UKRAINE.
HE MAY HAVE DONE THIS EXACT
THING ONCE BEFORE WITH UKRAINE,
BEFORE HE DID IT THIS TIME AND
GOT CAUGHT.
GOT CAUGHT. BEFORE VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY WAS
ELECTED PRESIDENT THE PRESIDENT
WAS THIS MAN.
ACCORDING TO USA TODAY IN 2017
AFTER TRUMP WAS ELECTED, HIS
GOVERNMENT HIRED AN EXPENSIVE
LOBBYING FIRM IN WASHINGTON TO
TRY TO GIVE HIM AND HIS
GOVERNMENT BETTER CONTACTS WITH
THE NEW AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION.
THEY WERE PAYING TRYING TO TO
GET INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.
THEY WANTED TO MAKE CONTACT WITH
THE NEW TRUMP FOLKS.
ACCORDING TO DAVID IGNACEOUS, IT
WASN’T WORKING.
WASN’T WORKING. QUOTE, UKRAINE HAD LIAR HIRED
THE LOBBYING FIRM BUT NOTHING
HAD HAPPENED.
HAD HAPPENED. BUT SUDDENLY SIX MONTHS DOWN THE
ROAD IN JUNE 2017 IGNACEOUS
SAYS, QUOTE, THE DOOR OPENED.
WHY?
WHY? WELL, HERE’S SOMETHING WE DIDN’T
KNOW BEFORE.
KNOW BEFORE. ON JUNE 7th, RUDY GIULIANI,
VISITED UKRAINE, VISITED KIEV.
HE WAS THERE GIVING A SPEECH AND
WHILE HE WAS THERE HE MET WITH
THE PRESIDENT AND WHO KNOWS WHAT
WAS SAID AT THAT MEETING.
WITHIN A COUPLE OF DAYS, FOR
SOME STRANGE REASON WITHIN OF A
COUPLE OF DAYS OF THAT MEETING
UKRAINE’S ONGOING THEN CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATIONS OF TRUMP’S
CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN PAUL MANAFORT
GOT DROPPED.
GOT DROPPED. PAUL MANAFORT WAS UNDER
INVESTIGATION AND MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS IN ILLICIT OFF THE BOOKS
-- AND THAT WAS UKRAINE’S MONEY
THAT WENT UP THE CHIMNEY WITH
THOSE GUYS.
THOSE GUYS. AS PART OF THEIR INVESTIGATIONS
OF MANAFORT WE BELIEVE THOSE
UKRAINE WHEREIN ANTI-CORRUPTION
PROSECUTORS WERE COOPERATING
WITH THE DOMESTIC INVESTIGATION
OF PAUL MANAFORT HERE AT HOME,
THE ONE PART OF THE SPECIAL
COUNSEL’S INVESTIGATION AND
ULTIMATELY WOULD RESULT IN MAN
MANAFORT’S PROSECUTION ON
MULTIPLE COUNTS.
MULTIPLE COUNTS. MYSTERIOUSLY WITHIN A COUPLE OF
DAYS OF GIULIANI MEETING AND
VISITING WITH THE PRESIDENT OF
UKRAINE AND HIS TOP PROSECUTOR,
WITHIN A COUPLE OF DAYS MEETING
THE MANAFORT CASES GET TAKEN
AWAY FROM THE ANTI-CORRUPTION
GUYS AND MOVE TO BE BASICALLY
UNDER THE PURVIEW OF THE
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT. AND PEOPLE IN UKRAINE WERE MAD
ABOUT THIS.
ABOUT THIS. THIS WAS THE HEADLINE IN THE
KIEV POST WHEN IT HAPPENED.
QUOTE, BLACK LEDGER
INVESTIGATION APPEARS TO COME TO
A HALT.
A HALT. QUOTE, AFTER A YEAR OF
INVESTIGATION BY UKRAINIAN LAW
ENFORCEMENT THE CASE OF THE
BLACK LEDGER, A SECRET HAND
WRITTEN LIST OF $2 BILLION OF
SHADY PAYMENTS BY THE POLITICAL
PARTY OF THE OUSTED PRESIDENT
APPEARS TO HAVE STALLED.
WHEN REPORTS OF THE FINDING OF
THE LEDGER FIRST SURFACED LAST
YEAR THE SCANDAL LED TO THE
RESIGNATION OF THE CHAIRMAN OF
DONALD TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION CAMPAIGN TEAM, PAUL
MANAFORT, WHOSE NAME WAS FOUND
IN THE LEDGER NEXT TO THE SUMS
OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
DOLLARS.
DOLLARS. BUT THE ANTI-CORRUPTION
PROSECUTORS OFFICE OF UKRAINE
HAS NOW PASSED THE
ANTI-CORRUPTION DOCUMENTS TO THE
SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTOR
GENERAL’S OFFICE.
GENERAL’S OFFICE. AND OF COURSE DIFFERENT
PROSECUTORS OFFICES, WE DON’T
KNOW.
KNOW. FROM HERE YOU HOW DO WE KNOW HOW
TO JUDGE THE VARIOUS EQUITIES OR
PROPRIETIES OF THE DIFFERENT
TYPES OF OFFICES IN THE COUNTRY?
WE DON’T KNOW, BUT THEY DO.
A FORMER SENIOR OFFICIAL IN
UKRAINE WAS QUOTED AT THE TIME
EXPLAINING WHAT EXACTLY IT MEANT
THAT THESE MANAFORT PROSECUTION
WERE MOVED FROM THE
ANTI-CORRUPTION FOLKS TO THIS
OTHER OFFICE UNDER THE
PRESIDENT.
PRESIDENT. QUOTE, THE FACT THE BLACK LEDGER
CASE WAS PASSED MEANS IT WILL
FROM NOW ON BE UNDER POLITICAL
CONTROL, HE SAID.
HE SAID, QUOTE, IT IS CLEAR FOR
ME THAT SOMEBODY GAVE AN ORDER
TO BURY THE BLACK LEDGER.
AND THEN PRESTO, INTERESTING.
RUDY GETS HIS MEETING, THE
MANAFORT CASES GET DROPPED, GET
BURIED.
BURIED. AND THEN LESS THAN A WEEK LATER
THE UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT GETS HIS
WHITE HOUSE MEETING.
THE ONE THAT THE UKRAINIAN
PRESIDENCY HAS BEEN TRYING FOR
FRUITLESSLY FOR MONTHS, IT
INSTANTLY COMES THROUGH AS SOON
AS THOSE MANAFORT CASES ARE
SHELVED.
SHELVED. SO A NEW ADMINISTRATION IS SWORN
IN HERE.
IN HERE. UKRAINIANS CAN’T GET ANYWHERE
WITH THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.
GIULIANI GOES OVER THERE AND
MEET WITH THE PRESIDENT AND
PROSECUTOR.
PROSECUTOR. WITHIN A WEEK, ACTUALLY THE KIEV
POST SAYS ALONG WITH ANY HELP
THAT UKRAINIAN PROSECUTORS MIGHT
HAVE BEEN PROVIDING TO U.S.
PROSECUTORS, THE SPECIAL
COUNSEL’S OFFICE WHICH WAS RIGHT
THEN GEARING UP TO THE CHARGE
MANAFORT WITH MULTIPLE FELONIES.
THAT ALL GOES AWAY RIGHT AFTER
THE GIULIANI MEETING AND WITHIN
TWO WEEKS OF GIULIANI MEETING
AND THE MEETING OF THE MANAFORT
CASES, PRESTO, THE UKRAINIAN
PRESIDENT GETS HIS WHITE HOUSE
MEETING HE COULDN’T GET ANYWHERE
NEAR FOR MONTHS BEFORE THAT.
AGAIN, THIS IS NEW FROM "THE
WASHINGTON POST" COLUMNIST DAVID
IGNACEOUS.
IGNACEOUS. THE REPORTER WHO BROKE THE MIKE
FLYNN TALKING TO THE RUSSIAN
STORY BACK IN JANUARY 2017
BEFORE ANYBODY ELSE.
THIS IS IGNACEOUS WRITING ON THE
EDITORIAL PAGE THAT BROKE THE
UKRAINE SCANDAL THAT HAS NOW LED
TO IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS
AGAINST THE PRESIDENT, AND HERE
HE ARGUES IT LOOKS LIKE THIS MAY
BE ROUND 2.
PRESIDENT TRUMP WORKING WITH
RUDY GIULIANI, THE EXTORTION OF
THE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE,
GETTING THEM TO DO THINGS TO
HELP TRUMP IN EXCHANGE FOR
SOMETHING THAT COUNTRY
DESPERATELY WANTED AND NEEDED
FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
AND ONE LAST POINT.
YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THAT LAST
YEAR THERE WAS A "NEW YORK
TIMES" REPORT.
TIMES" REPORT. WE ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT IT ON
THE SHOW.
THE SHOW. IT WAS A REPORT FROM "THE NEW
YORK TIMES" LAST MAY WHICH
SUGGEST SAID WHEN UKRAINE
DROPPED THOSE MANAFORT CASES AND
THEY STOPPED HELPING THE SPECIAL
COUNSEL’S OFFICE HERE WITH THEIR
OWN INVESTIGATION OF MANAFORT,
"THE TIMES" REPORTING SUGGESTED
LAST YEAR WHEN THEY SHELVED
THOSE MANAFORT CASES, UKRAINIANS
WERE NOT ONLY IN THE WORDS OF
ONE UKRAINIAN LAWYER DOING THAT
IN AN EFFORT TO, QUOTE, AVOID
IRRITATING THE TOP OFFICIALS,
THEY WERE ALSO DOING IT THEY
BELIEVED TO STOP IT FROM
SECURING THE JAVELIN MISSILES.
THE UKRAINE GOVERNMENT FOR SOME
REASON APPEARS TO HAVE BELIEVED
AT THAT TIME THAT DROPPING THE
CASES AGAINST MANAFORT WOULD NOT
ONLY AVOID IRRITATING TOP U.S.
OFFICIALS, IT WOULD ALSO
FACILITATE THE DELIVERY OF THOSE
MISSILES FROM THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT.
GOVERNMENT. WELL, IN THE END THEY DID KILL
THE MANAFORT CASES.
THEY DID STOP HELPING THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL HERE WHEN THEY
WERE LOOKING INTO MANAFORT.
AFTER DOING SO THEY NOW ALL OF A
SUDDEN WE NOW KNOW DID GET THEIR
WHITE HOUSE MEETING FOR THEIR
PRESIDENT THAT THEY PREVIOUSLY
COULDN’T GET.
COULDN’T GET. AND THEY DID FINALLY GET THE
DELIVERY OF THOSE JAVELIN
MISSILES THAT THEY PREVIOUSLY
COULDN’T GET.
COULDN’T GET. AND GIULIANI WAS TAKING MEETINGS
IN UKRAINE ALL THROUGH THE
MIDDLE OF THAT.
DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR OR
WHAT?
WHAT? WAS THAT ROUND ONE?
WAS THAT THE DRESS REHEARSAL ON
HOW TO EXTORT STUFF OUT OF
UKRAINE?
UKRAINE? AND WHEN THEY TRIED TO GET AWAY
WITH IT THIS YEAR TOO MANY
PEOPLE SAW THEM AND SQUAWKED.
IS THE REASON HE THOUGHT THIS
WAS ALL FINE IS BECAUSE HE’S
DONE IT BEFORE AND GOT AWAY WITH
IT AND THOUGHT IT WAS LEGAL.
THIS QUESTION IS BEING RAISED BY
A WELL-CONNECTED COLUMNIST
WORKING ON A JOURNALISTIC PIECE
OF REAL ESTATE.
AND I’LL TELL YOU ONE FINAL
POINT ABOUT IT, IT KIND OF LOOKS
LIKE THE IMPEACHMENT
INVESTIGATORS ON CAPITOL HILL
MAY BE ONTO THIS ALREADY.
AND I’M SAYING THAT BASED ON ONE
LITTLE TINY SHORT PIECE OF TAPE.
WATCH THIS.
WATCH THIS. THIS IS CONGRESSMAN JERRY CONLEY
COMING OUT OF THE SEALED HEARING
ROOM WHERE THEY’VE BEEN TAKING
THESE CLOSED DOOR DEPOSITIONS
FOR WEEKS NOW.
THIS IS HIM ON WEDNESDAY POPPING
HIS HEAD OUT IN THE MIDDLEF
THESE CASELOAD DOOR DEPOSITIONS
AND HE BASICALLY GIVES REPORTERS
A HINT WHERE SOME OF THIS MIGHT
BE GOING.
BE GOING. AS BEST AS WE CAN TEP REPORTERS
CAN’T QUITE BELIEVE IT OR THEY
AT LEAST WANT TO GET HIM ON THE
RECORD ABOUT IT.
SO THEY ASK HIM TO PLEASE SAY IT
AGAIN THIS TIME ON CAMERA SO
THEY SAY IT AGAIN ON CAMERA AND
ON THE RECORD.
WATCH WHAT HE TELLS THEM.
>> IF I WERE AN ENTERPRISING
REPORTER I WOULD SPEND LITTLE
TIME ON THE ISSUE OF JAVELIN
MISSILES.
MISSILES. >> WHY?
>> WHY? WHY?
WHY? >> BEING AN ENTERPRISING
REPORTER.
REPORTER. >> IF I WERE AN ENTERPRISING
REPORTER I WOULD SPEND A LITTLE
TIME ON THE ISSUE OF JAVELIN