LIEWPT REVENGE, AND ALL
CONSEQUENCES WILL BE BORNE BY
THE UNITED STATES.
FRED, GOOD TO SEE YOU.
BEFORE WE GET INTO FIONA HILL
AND THE REST, YOUR REACTION TO
THE RHETORIC OF THE CHINESE,
EVEN AS THEY ARE INVITING THE
UNITED STATES TO BEIJING FOR
MORE TRADE TALKS.
>> WELL, BEIJING DOES NOT WANT
THE PRESIDENT TO SIGN THIS BIG
IN HONG KONG.
BUT I THINK THEY REALIZE IT WILL
HAPPEN.
THE ADMINISTRATION HAS TRIED TO
SUPPORT THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG
WITHOUT -- WITHOUT AN TAG
NIGHING BEIJING AND MAKING THE
PROBLEM WORSE.
BUT THEY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.
LOU: TO THE CREDIT OF THE HOUSE
AND THE SENATE.
I AM TOLD SOME MEMBERS -- AND
I'M NOT GOING -- OUR SOURCES
TELL US A NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF
THE ADMINISTRATION AT THE
CABINET LEVEL TRIED TO TALK TWO
SENATORS INTO VOTING AGAINST THE
LEGISLATION.
DON'T YOU AGREE IT WOULD BE VERY
POOR SERVICE TO THE PRESIDENT
FOR THAT PERSON TO HAVE DONE
THAT?
>> THERE WAS A TIME WHEN WE WERE
HOPING WE COULD PUT THE GENIE
BACK IN THE BATTLE AND GET BOTH
SIDES TO ABIDE BY THE 1997
TREATY.
LOU: WHO ARE THE BOTH SIDES.
>> THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG AND
THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
LOU: THAT'S LONG GONE AS YOU
SAY.
THE FACT IS THIS COUNTRY HAS TO
STAND UP FOR ITS VALUES, ITS
IDEALS, AND THIS PRESIDENT IS
JUST THE ONE TO DO IT.
ANYONE IN HIS ADMINISTRATION WHO
WOULD COUNSEL A COURSER THAN HAS
THE -- A COURSE OTHER THAN
THAT -- HERE IS A WOMAN WHO
WROTE IN 2015 A BROOKINGS
INSTITUTE OP-ED, WANT TO KEEP
THE UNITED STATES, PREVENT THE
UNITED STATES PRESENT GIVING
LETHAL WEAPONS TO UKRAINE.
AND THEN STANDING -- ACTUALLY
SITTING IN THAT HEARING ROOM
TODAY CRITICIZING THE PRESIDENT
BECAUSE HE DID GIVE LETHAL
WEAPONS TO THE CRANE JR.ANS, DID
STEP UP TO THE UKRAINIANS.
FIONA HILL?
SHE WAS QUITE SOMETHING, DON'T
YOU THINK?
>> CITY KNOW FIONA HILL, I
TRAVELED ON AIR FORCE ONE WITH
FIONA HILL.
SHE WASN'T PARTISAN TO ME.
THOUGH SHE PREVIOUSLY WORKED FOR
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION.
SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A FACT
WITNESS, BUT SHE WASN'T A FACT
WITNESS.
SHE LECTURED THE REPUBLICANS AND
ACCUSING REPUBLICANS THAT THEY
DON'T BLEACH RUSSIA MEDDLED IN
THE 2016 ELECTION.
BUT THERE IS SOMETHING
INTERESTING SHE SAID ON LETHAL
AID TO UKRAINE.
SHE SAID THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION, THE PRESIDENT
FOR POLITICAL REASONS DIDN'T
PROVIDE THE AID.
SO WHERE IS THE WHISTLEBLOWER
FROM THE OBAMA YEARS COMPLAINING
THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA DIDN'T
LISTEN TO THE BUREAUCRACY.
THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON WITH
PRESIDENT TRUMP.
LOU: ONE THING ADAM SCHIFF AND
HIS RADICAL DIMM FRIENDS BEN'T.
THE BUREAUCRACY AND THE
ARROGANCE OF THEM.
AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE
POLITICAL APPOINTEES.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT FOREIGN
SERVICE OFFICERS.
WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE?
WHO THE HELL DO THEY THINK THE
INTERAGENCY IS, AND I MEAN, I
THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RIGHT
NOW -- THEY HAVE BEEN SERVED
NOTICE, YOU HAVE A GOVERNMENT
NOT IN THE CONTROL OF THE PEOPLE
YOU ELECT.
>> ALEXANDER VINDMAN TESTIFIED
HE WAS UPSET THE PRESIDENT
DIDN'T FOLLOW THE TALKING POINT
ON CRANE RRP FROM THE
INTERAGENCY.
THE PRESIDENT MAKES FOREIGN
POLICY.
HE CAN USE TALKING POINTS FROM
VINDMAN AND FIONA HILL IF HE
WANTS TO.
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY'S THE
POLICYMAKER, AND THE POLICY IS
WHATEVER HE MAKES IT TO BE.
LOU: IT'S AWESOME, ARROGANT
BUREAUCRATS, FOREIGN SERVICE
OFFICERS BEHAVING AS THEY DO.
WAIT ATBREARS THEIR TESTIMONY,
MANY OF THEM.
IT LOOKS LIKE AT LEAST HALF
THEIR TIME IS SPENT SPYING ON
ONE ANOTHER, AND THE OTHER HALF
GOSSIPING ABOUT ONE ANOTHER AND
THEIR SPEARERS.
IT'S TRULY AN ASTONISHING SPERK
CAL WHAT ADAM SCHIFF HAS
PROVIDED US.
DON'T YOU THINK?
>> I DO.
AND I THINK THE HEARINGS WERE A
BIG FLOP.
I TALKED TO SOME OF MY RELATIVE
IN PENCE STRAIN YEAH SAYING WE
DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS ABOUT,
GET IT OFF TV.
AND IF YOU HAVE WATCHED SCHIFF'S
SUMMARY, HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT
THE PRESIDENT.
HE ATTACKED THE REPUBLICANS.
I THINK SCHIFF IS LOSING IT.