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Ukraine. pressured the ukraine, i will not give you money unless you sack the prosecutor. biden has been open about this pressure effort. hes tauted it as his own anti-corruption work. listen to what he said at an event to 2018. >> im desperately concerned about the backsliding on the part of kiev in terms of corruption. i went over the 12th, 13th time to kiev, and i was supposed to announce there was another billion dollar loan guarantee, i had gotten a commitment from them that they would take...

Prosecutor to be fired. here is biden recounting the time he threatened to withhold a billion dollars in american loan guarantees if ukraine did not take action. >> i went over, i guess the 12th, 13th time to eyef aand i supposed to announce there was another billion dollars loan guarantee. and i got word that they would take action against the state prosecutor and they didnt. so they said they were walking out the press conference i said, no, im not going to -- were not going to give you the bi...

It was beyond an offer. it was something where he said im not going to give billions of dollars to ukraine unless they remove this prosecutor. >> that was the president of the united states speaking about politics in front of the u.s. coast guard. the president is referring to the call that he was referring to was bidens role in a cra crackdown on corruption in ukraine, including calling for the removal of ukraines general prosecutor who at the time was also nfgt r investigating a natural gas co...

President trump. take a listen. >> heres what i know. i know trump -- the investigation. hes violated every basic -- judge jeanine: but heres tough guy biden from about a year and a half ago bragging about ordering ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor who happened to be investigating a company on which bidens son served as a board member. >> i went over, i guess, the 12th, 13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that theres another billion dollar loan guarantee. and i had gotten a ...

Iranian officials to blasting president trump. take a listen. >> heres what i know. i know trump -- the investigation. hes violated every basic -- judge jeanine: but heres tough guy biden from about a year and a half ago bragging about ordering ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor who happened to be investigating a company on which bidens son served as a board member. >> i went over, i guess, the 12th, 13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that theres another billion dollar loan ...

Iranian officials to blasting president trump. take a listen. >> heres what i know. i know trump -- the investigation. hes violated every basic -- judge jeanine: but heres tough guy biden from about a year and a half ago bragging about ordering ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor who happened to be investigating a company on which bidens son served as a board member. >> i went over, i guess, the 12th, 13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that theres another billion dollar loan ...

Whether it checks out. >> yeah, its interesting. biden has himself told the story of the pressure he has applied on ukraine to get rid of the prosecutor. hes held this up as an example of his own work to clean up corruption. listen to what he said at an event in 2018. >> im desperately concerned about the backsliding on the part of kiev in terms of corruption. ill give you one example. i went over i guess the 12th, 13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that theres another billion doll...

13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that theres another billion dollar loan guarantee, and i had got an commitment from por poroshenko yushchenko take action and they didnt. i said, nah, were not going to give you the billion dollars. they said youre not the president. i said, call him. im telling you, youre not getting the billion. im leaving here in, what is it? six hourss if the prosecutors not fired youre not getting the money. >> craig, can you explain why that prosecutors oust...

Heated exchange between chris cuomo and rudy giuliani, who said that biden used his leverage with ukraine to force them to oust the prosecutor, who was considered to be corrupt and who was also going after a company that at the time was playing dumb like paying hunter biden $2,000 a month to be on their board >> joe biden, in january, in front of the council of foreign relations saying the whole thing. >> he said im going to give me this money if you get rid of this prosecutor? >> 100%, exactly!...

Take another question. the last year it was four hours and 48 minutes. this will be his 13th time and a lot of stuff that president putin will talk about. the relationship with the united states and west in general over the issue of ukraine. sanctions, the plunging russian economy, various other issues. the kremlin says it is a brisk and interesting 12 months. that is why there is so much interest in what putin will have to say to his country over the course of the next hour. it starts an hour a...