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He understood the corruption problem and said ukraine is one of the three most corrupt countries on the planet, plus he was concerned about influence of the 2016 election and things ukrainian politicians were doing to persuade. all that package and said by the way, youve got a new president so he said lets check this guy out and everyone came back and said. >> bret: when you hear democrats say if it is all on the up and up, why dont you give us mick mulvaney and john bolton, why dont you release...

The securing of an extremely well-paying job on the board of a corrupt ukrainian company burisma highlights the precise corruption problem in ukraine that concerned not only president trump but all of the witnesses weve interviewed so far. the democrats have dismissed questions about bidens role at burisma as conspiracy theories. yet theyre trying to impeach president trump for having express concerns about the company. if we could hear from biden, we could ask him how he got his position. what ...

Cross-examination. the securing of an extremely well-paying job on the board of a corrupt ukrainian company, burisma, highlights the corruption problem in ukraine that concerned not only president trump but all of the witnesses weve interviewed so far. the democrats have dismissed bidens role at burisma as conspiracy theories, yet they are trying to impeach president trump or having expressed concerns about the company. if we could hear from biden, we could ask him how he got his position. what ...

Cross-examination. his securing of an extremely well-paying job on the board of a corrupt ukrainian company burisma highlights the precise corruption problem in ukraine that concerned not only president trump but all of the witnesses weve interviewed so far. the democrats have dismissed questions about bidens role at burisma as conspiracy theories. yet, theyre trying to impeach president trump for having expressed concerns about the company. if we could hear from biden, we could ask him how he g...

What was happening. we got a brand new guy in ukraine. this zelensky guy wins, right? >> right. >> and his party takes over and president trump wants to see with all these other things that are of concern to him, he wants to see if this new guys actually, as i like to say, the real deal. a real reformer and actually going to deal with the corruption problem. so aid gets held up for 55 days. gets held up on june 18th -- excuse me, july 18th -- and then is released on september 11th. but it seems ...

Long standing concerns about corruption in ukraine, correct? >> i dont -- i dont recall, but there are concerns. there are broad concerns about corruption, yes. >> but you would agree that if the u.s. is giving, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars to a foreign nation that has a corruption problem, thats certainly something that the u.s. government officials and the president would want to be concerned about? >> yes. and if a foreign country has a problem with oligarchs taking money, taking...

Easily ambassador to the e.u., already changed his testimony once, amended it based on his memory was refreshed, read some other testimony and said that he needed to do that before he came. how do you think he will hold up as a witness on wednesday? >> we will see. what we know is what he said in his deposition, and that really did not change in the event he provided to his deposition testimony. he said there was no quid pro quo and that he should do the right thing, and the right thing is deal ...

>> i would say corruption is a serious issue everywhere in the former soviet union. it is a post-soviet legacy, and we talk about it a lot in ukraine because there is actually an opportunity to do something. to help the ukrainians tackle the issue. they want to tackle the issue. in other countries like russia, you cant even talk about it. so i think it is a post-soviet legacy and its important to do with it. >> you testified rampant corruption has long permeated ukraines political and economic s...

Is a serious issue everywhere in the former soviet union. its a post-soviet legacy. and we talk about it a lot in ukraine because there is actually an opportunity to do something, to actually help the ukrainians tackle the issue. they want to tackle the issue. in other countries, like russia, you cant even talk about it. so i think its a post-soviet legacy and its important to deal with it. >> and you testified rampant corruption has long permeated ukraines political and economic systems? >> yes...

Concern that ukraine has a lot of corruption. other criminal justice system is poor right now. thats setting the foundation, a very key foundation for any argument that the president is accurate when he has concern over corruption. >> dana: when you read through this testimony, and i appreciate you doing that because i have got to page 80 but its an interesting exchange. its kind of like an open secret that ukraine has i corruption problem. but when you thing about these public hearings that wil...