I was not aware that CrowdStrike gave a copy of the server to the FBI....which is a headscratcher, why didn't they turn over the server? It was decommissioned and removed from the platform, served no purpose other than to collect dust. My opinion, wherever this server is, it needs to be found and reviewed by computer experts compiled of FBI, NSA, and a third party that is not CrowdStrike (hopefully a company that did not have a dog in the campaign fight). But, like the killary basement email servers while Sec of State, it has probably been destroyed.

I am one of those who thinks and knows that good foreign policy comes from a state department and the intelligence community, as well as the pentagon, and a president that trusts all of the mentioned parts of the mechanism that he should be listening to and trusting, rather than having a "foreign policy" if you can call it that that is entirely against the national interests in all regards.

It remains to be seen why trump put so much of a priority on already completely debunked BS to withhold military aid from the Ukraine, but whatever his "reasons", the effect was to do Putin a huge favor in the Ukraine not having anti tank weapons in time for them attacking the eastern Ukraine.

What trump did in withholding aid outside of official channels that circumvented the wishes of congress was likely done illegally, and the staffers responsible for expediting funds knew it, and reports were sent through channels trying to stop it.

Yes a president is heavily responsible for foreign policies, but also for staying within official channels and adhering to the rules and law. We do not have a king, we have a president and there are rules and guidelines for him to stay within.

Perfectly spelled out by one of the top five most moronic republican senators...John Kennedy of Louisiana
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/25/ukraine-election-meddling-theory-continues/4296544002/

After making a statement that has actually been debunked regarding Ukrainian election interference, here is how he decides between rhetoric and intelligence information, the interviewer stated that intelligence says it was Russia, not the Ukraine, and that actually it was a Russian fueled idea that it was Ukraine...

Kennedy says, "it could have been Ukraine, I don't know and neither do you"...

So, despite being fully briefed by intelligence and having the official record set straight for them, we see GOP politicians peddle their rhetoric to the public. The logic expressed by saying if they've heard two sets of information, one from intelligence and the other pulled out of debunked conspiracy theories, and they can't make the intelligent choice between the two, they need to keep it to themselves, not peddle it to millions of ignorant people.

The republican party is literally selling the propaganda that russia did not meddle, it was Ukraine that did. This is seriously dangerous territory when the party can't differentiate between the rhetoric and the facts. There is way too much light here between the facts and the things we know are not.

As trump has openly said to his loyal followers, pay attention to what I say, not what the media says

Well, Ukraine is investigating it anyway. LOLOL! I am sure Manifort can corroborate some of it.

And, for the ten thousandth time, if some one claims to know where a hack originated by looking at the systems involved, then they don't actually know. Hackers can make hacks look like they came from your own back yard. LOL! Thus, we do NOT know Ukraine was not involved in hacking and we do NOT know Russia did the hacking. Last I heard, no source offered, there were 7 countries involved in hacking into our election, none of which involved changing votes or altering numbers.

Your facts that the GOP facts are no good is just good evidence that YOUR facts are no good.