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Rather. its tough. >> jessica>> lawrence: the immin policy when it comes to the legal -- many times goes through the cartel. you dont get across the border unless you pay a fee to the cartel. there is a drug policy and an immigration policy that essentially regulates themselves. the best way to attack them is through their money. going very hard after them. mexico has a corruption problem. part of the reason why the cartel is able to flourish is because people that are supposed to be leaders, of...

Meme-making anti-democratic online personas. these pro-trump online engines. so that part is in place again, just exactly like it was before. i mean, why wouldnt the russians do it again, right? its not like they got in trouble for doing it the first time. and weve got this president who was in the middle of impeachment proceedings, like he did in 2016. he wasnt under impeachment proceedings then, but we had this sort of scandal-ridden candidate in 2016 who was very busy in 2016 trying to make i...

Was in the middle of impeachment proceedings, like he did in 2016. he wasnt under impeachment proceedings then, but we had this sort of scandal-ridden candidate in 2016 who was very busy in 2016 trying to make it seem like the other side had the scandals. now hes the president of the united states, not only facing scandals, but impeachment proceedings and similarly, hes running the same play. hes trying to say, its the democrats who have the ones with all the big scandal to contend with, particu...

Him. i have to ask how you feel about the accusation of vice president biden having been sort of spotted alongside the notoriously corrupt ukrainian oil and gas industry and that that being a reason to call him -- to say hes the one that has corruption problem here. >> well, youve hit the nail on the head. this is really a sort of orwellian inversion of reality where black is white and white is black. in fact, vice president biden in 2014, 2015 after the revolution of dignity in ukraine was push...

From the presidents allies is they are using the word corruption as both a shield and a sword, denying that it applies to the presidents behavior, saying hes within his rights in accusing everybody from vice president biden to his accusers in the congress, to the media whos talking about it, calling everybody else corrupt trying to take the meaning out of that word so it no longer lands with such a sting when applied to him. i have to ask how you feel about the accusation of vice president biden...

And they say we hear you asking for political favor from the ukrainians that was going to benefit you personally back in the united states and we know thats illegal in the united states. so you can have -- you can be compromised in the course of these discussions. eric: the president would say vladimir, buzz off, no, im -- saying what hes saying now, hes going to say i was interested in corruption i, wanted to know what happened to joe biden and his son even though the ukrainian prosecutor said ...

Wants to drain the swamp, referencing the prosecutor who was fired because joe biden, who bragged on national television that he got him fired when they were investigating hunter biden -- >> thats not true. he got them fired, but not when he was investigating. the whole case against hunter biden have been settled. hunter biden had been cleared. to this day there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by hunter biden or joe biden. what you said is true, that joe biden, in cooperation with all of our al...

There was no pressure. >> reporter: tonight, republicans are defending the president. >> i think its very appropriate for the president of the united states suggests that youve got a corruption problem. from my point of view to impeach any president over a phone call like this would be insane. >> reporter: now the president facing the prospect of impeachment over a call he made the day after special counsel robert mueller testified. >> i thought we won. i thought it was dead. it was dead. the mu...

At. i think it is very appropriate for the president of the united states to suggest you have a corruption problem. >> youre talking about impeaching a sitting president that they have no crime for. >> at this stage no one knows whether this probe had lead to any charges or convictions. impeachment is a congressional decision. it does not require the trigger of a crime. these new documents show the trump officials have been involved in things that as our experts have been saying, could raise cri...

He says favor, he asks him to work with attorney general barr going forward on looking into getting dirt about joe biden. >> i hope we will, i hope we will look at the corruption problem in the ukraine. i think the president pointed out in the firing of the prosecutor, maybe he deserved to be fired. maybe he was corrupt. i dont know. but an obvious conflict of interest. joe biden is a very good friend, but we cant have a country where one side looks at and the other one does not. here is the poi...