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International relations. >> former member of parliament says corruption long rooted in ukraine allegations of election tampering in the united states. but he left the zelensky team around the same time president trumps personal lawyer rudy giuliani accused him of tampering with the 2016 presidential election in the u.s. >> did you in any way interfere in the 2016 election? >> what i did, i disclosed corruption and who i know because of ukrainian politics. >> he release the so-called black ledger...

A very good question the next day of the vice president about whether he brought up the bidens in this meeting. the vice president said he didnt. >> they said he brought up corruption. and theres been this broad theme of corruption as an idea rather than talking about specifics. even we saw from secretary perry no talk of the bidens. but you see a loft people in this administration whether directly involved in the ukrainian matter or not, they are talking about corruption issues. and how is that...

>> the answer is i think it depends on what the presidents intent is. and my read on the situation and remember ive represented a bunch of public officials in impeachment proceedings all of my clients impeachments have been republicans. and i think that there is a good chance here that the president is not going to be impeached. but what im seeing is what appears to be a remarkable lack of discipline by the president and the trump white house. im not sure that there is a a grand plan here. i thi...

Jay, when the mueller probe are wrapped i thought you could get a vacation but now you are back in with the president. when it comes to this call in particular what did we get out of the acting dni on capitol hill yesterday. >> you got to the president had a call with a foreign leader. in that call with a foreign leader there was no quid pro quo at all. it was a 30 minute phone call. there was a 14 or 20 second reference to biden. the ukraine president brings up the issue of my colleague rudy gi...

Has dealt with many countries around the globe that have corruption issues. keep in mind saudi arabia executed a journalist it appears in jamal khashoggi last year. were coming up on the one-year anniversary of that. that appears to be not a problem for the white house when it comes to dealings with saudi arabia, and yet theres a concern about corruption when it comes to ukraine. the other thing that the president was talking about was, well, the europeans arent donating enough money to help the...

And some are demanding to hear the audio of the presidents call if it does exist. speaker pelosi over the weekend threatened, quote, a whole new stage of the investigation if the administration does not hand over the complaint. and house intelligence chairman adam schiff announcing that democrats may have crossed the rubicon when it comes to impeachment. most republicans have either been silent or theyre rather predictably backing the president and perhaps lost amidst this craziness is the fact ...

>> joe biden said yesterday and im paraphrasing that no credible news outlet has found any credibility to these allegations. is that fair? >> yes, i think thats largely fair. i mean i think there are legitimate questions about the decision that hunter made. in taking this lucrative position on the board of burisma, at a time his father was involved in dictating and shaping policy in ukraine that was a questionable decision, the state department at the time publicly said it wasnt a conflict becau...

Is friends with israel. even after a very close friendship with bibi netanyahu. >> i think is exact statement was our relationship is with israel and not just netanyahu and i think thats the exact correct thing for donald trump to say. in one of the reasons why i agree with most everything ari says, one of the reasons why this is so hard to form this coalition is that the blue-and-white party is actually basically just an anti-netanyahu coalition. it is not really -- it is still -- its got liber...

Federal government to pitch one of his struggling resorts as the next site for the g7. you have so many various transgressions and examples of corruption that democrats look weak if they dont pursue it. they still need to be talking about kitchen table issues because, yes, voters in iowa dont care about whats happening right now with mueller and the russia investigation. you have to be able to do both. >> mike, do these examples of corruption, you know, most recently the president pushing member...

About this. certainly some trump allies are. the president himself of course is being very bullish and thinks they will win. those around him are far less confident. and i think there are people -- its not just that the chamber could change control. its the ramifications not even further stalling the trump agenda. it is, as someone close to the white house said to me recently, it would be a parade of trump officials marched up to capitol hill to testify in front of committee after committee and ...