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Because there isnt. sdp >> then he chalks up the discrepancies between the two stories as word choice. but it doesnt tell us what we know so far about testimony from state employees. john bolton reportedly referred to it as a drug deal being run by mick mulvaney. now there are corruption concerns. listen to mulvaneys repeated struggle telling the corruption story, that it had nothing to do with money flowing to ukraine. >> lets get to the heart of the matter. look at those three things. >> you s...

To shady people? his purpose, the dnc and the bidens. and in case that isnt enough, you have this. >> did he also mention to me in the past that the corruption related to the dnc server? absolutely. no question about that. but thats it. thats why we held up the money. i have news for everybody. get over it. theres going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> the acting chief of staff walked it back, they say. no, he didnt. be straight. he got told by trump and others to go out, lie, den...

Giuliani was a shadow secretary of state with shady connections to shady people. the dnc and the bidens. in case that is not enough, you have this. >> he also mentioned to me the corruption related to the dnc server, absolutely. but thats it. that is why we held up the money. get over it. there will be political influence in foreign policy. >> the acting chief of staff walked it back. no he didnt. he got told by trump to go out, lie, deny and cry. the media made me do it. in other words learn fr...

President of the ukraine just got harder, this is why. a second whistle blower has now stepped forward, someone with firsthand knowledge of the conduct described. that is according to attorney mark zaid who is representing the first whistle-blower. and this person who is a member of the intelligence community has spoken with the intelligence community inspector general. that as three house subpoena, the pentagon and the white house budget office -- you can add rick perry to the list of top trump...

Little bit and is it safe to do that? we know in the past that never trumpers or people who have broken ranks with president trump or have criticized him have faced a strong rebuke from republicans at the ballot box. i think thats the fear from a lot of republicans right now. >> this week president trump made the argument also that his desire to get foreign governments like ukraine and china to open investigations into the biden family is all about his corruption concerns, not about politics. th...

Know, this is about corruption, this isnt about the bidens, this is about, you know, cracking down on corruption and sort of being a leader in that space. but you know, i think a lot of it has kind of fallen flat over the last couple days. >> well, in fact, this week, the president made the argument that his desire to get foreign governments openly, like ukraine and china, to have these investigations into the biden family, that its all about corruption concerns, that its not about politics. but...

Establish transparent rules governing it. the president received support from his vice president, mike pence. >> the american people have the right to know whether or not the vice president of the united states or his family profited from his position. you look at the video of vice president biden and you see there was clearly a quid pro quo. >> mike pence and other republicans charge then vice president biden pushed out a ukrainian prosecutor for investigating a natural gas company. his son,...

And, you see that there was clearly a quid pro quo. >> they charge that biden -- hunter biden served on the board out. bidens defenders have pointed out that allies also pushed ukraine to fire this prosecutor over corruption concerns. he was asked about his role in all of this. last month he went to europe, he was in poland. he met with the president of ukraine. he was asked what he discussed with the president of ukraine. biden said that they focus entirely on addressing corruption of help and ...

Administration that has made that core priority. >> does your reporting suggest at all that -- you say that the white house is suggesting that this had to do with corruption concerns. does the reporting suggest that trump was at all more specific with mulvaney or more specific in the administration about this being directly related to joe bidens son? >> i mean, that is the question that everybody is asking. and im not sure we have gotten to the truth with that yet. i think that what is important...

>> does your reporting suggest at all -- you say that the white house is suggesting that this had to do with corruption concerns. does the reporting suggest trump was at all more specific with mulvaney or more specific in the administration about this being directly related to joe bidens son? >> i mean, thats the question that everybody is asking. im not sure we have gotten to the truth with that yet. i think that whats important is to look at that call, that july 25th call, at the center of a b...