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Instead, what the president listened to with putin and orban and giuliani and it soured his view on the ukrainians and that instead of trying to go to support the ukrainians, thats when the president then instead went to them for a favor to dig up dirt in the political campaign. so i do think we see this from a foreign policy point of view as a very depressing disappointing and dangerous exercise of diplomacy by a president who simply isnt going to get reined in. that meeting with orban accordin...

Cooperation with the new president unless he comes across with the dirt on biden. its all going on at the same time. now, whether that originated with the phone call from putin in may or, you know, other sources from giuliani, who has his own connections in ukraine, you know, we certainly dont know that. >> business connections, yeah. >> but the thing about all the evidence is that it all fits together. i mean it all fits together in an explanation that the president just didnt want anything to ...

Okay? we dont use the power and prestige of america to beat on people for political purposes. i think of a lofty foreign policy of dean atchison and paul nitsy and henry kissinger where were promoting u.s. interests, not the banal commercial interests of particular people. >> if the president of the united states was holding taxpayer money over the head of the president of ukraine, who is trying to fend his countries from a russian attack, and the presidents using taxpayer money in order to get ...

Time. thank you, neil, again. appreciate it. >> tip my hat. >> absolutely. >> thanks, don. >> thank you, everyone, for watching. really appreciate it. im don lemon. our coverage continues. good evening. all roads lead to putin. that is what house speaker nancy pelosi famously said about president trump. tonight theres breaking news on what could be yet another road. "the washington post" tonight reporting on conversations the president had with vladimir putin and the hungarian prime minister. ...

Your knees. he would have dropped to his knees. >> maybe only if you called him pierre delecto, jeanne moos cnn. >> oh, yeah. >> new york. >> thank you for joining us, anderson starts now. good evening, all roads lead to putin. that is what house speaker nancy pelosi famously said about president trump. tonight theres breaking news on what could be yet another road. "the washington post" tonight reporting on conversations the president had with vladimir putin and hungarian prime minister. the ...

U.s. forces and russian-backed forces. the idea that anybody would say that this is not a gift to russia, what he has done in syria, theres no way around it. >> there is no way around it, anderson, and i prm afraid we wont understand whats happened here for years because some of these documents will be locked up and away from public view. i do want to go back to what jeffrey said about the consistent, complete picture is now emerging. i think theres something new about the picture were now seein...

Meeting in the white house, as well as the holding of funds. but right there in the plain log of the telephone call, we know that he was pursuing both information about the 2016 election and information about his political rivals in the 2020 election. >> you dont buy it that it wasnt about biden? he said biden was just a hypothetical. >> i certainly think theres specific evidence that he was looking at finding dirt on a political rival. but regardless, he was putting himself, his political -- hi...

>> what does that mean? >> that a conversation from head of state to another head of state, which is what that transcript shows, nvr could reach a high crime or misdemeanor? >> gross abuse of office that you use the state department, the white house and the department of justice to try to secure relief unyour election by finding dirt on an opponent that ukrain had to deliver or risk getting valuable aid. >> thats an interesting comment. the transcript doesnt show that. why dont you read the tran...

Tapped into them in terms of finding dirt on paul manafort. they want the people who were supportive of that study the equation out. so are they both in essence really trying to do the same thing in their own best interest on both sides? >> i have set for a long time, ukraine is one of the biggest political footballs in diplomatic stage. people have always been playing with it for years, its close to russia, important to us strategically, particularly when an election comes down, the ukrainians ...

The president says, i am quoting him now before leaving the white house, he says it is none of your business what he and putin are talking about. >> i think when it comes to vladimir putin, the president started in a place that was treasonous, now it is full blown treason. we heard that interview in the oval office when he literally invited hostile foreign nations, including russia, for finding dirt on his political opponents. i think the inference was find the dirt, make a deal. ill take care o...