Concerning the allegations, i stressed that no one in the new team governing ukraine had anything to do with anything that may have happened in 2016. They were making Television Shows at the time. I also said that it is not credible to me that former Vice President biden would have been influenced in any way by financial or personal motives in carrying out his duties as Vice President. A different issue is whether some individual ukrainians may have attempted to influence the 2016 election or thought they would buy influence. That is at least plausible given ukraines reputation for corruption. But the accusation that Vice President biden acted inappropriately did not seem at all credible to me. After that meeting, i connected mayor giuliani and mr. Yermak by text and later by phone. They met in person on august 2nd, 2019. In conversations with me following that meeting, which i
did not attend, mr. Giuliani said that he had stressed the importance of ukraine conducting investigations in
investigations, correct? well, now, what do we mean by these investigations? bhoouurisma and 2016 electio burisma and 2016, yes. and at the time that you were engaged in coordinating for this statement, did you find it unusual that there was such an emphasis on a public statement from president zelensky to carry out the investigations that the president was seeking? i didn t find it that unusual. i think when you re dealing with a situation where i believe the president was highly skeptical about president zelensky being committed to really changing ukraine after his entirely negative view of the country, that he would want to hear something more from president zelensky to be convinced that, okay, i ll give this a guy a chance. and perhaps he also wanted a public statement because it would lock president zelensky in to do these investigations that he thought might benefit him? well, again, when we say these investigations, what i
understand there s a certain strain of republicans. i m obviously not a republican so i don t understand a lot of it just for clarification, sal sally kohn, not a republican. there is a certain vain that we ll give the guy a chance and we ll see this through and we ll even be fine with the party he s leading because we re getting the things we want. we are getting packed courts with conservatives and tax cuts for corporations and the rich on the backs of working class and poor people and there s a certain point even then all of which i find unconscionable, and that s why i m not a republican, but there is a certain point when you do have to say when is enough enough? and when you have a president who is tweeting about the other party engaging in constant name calling is lying regularly, is attacking the press and is limiting the rights of the press. when you have a president who is
border patrol agent say [inaudible conversations] for the last six years, republicans have been in control of congress so why did they not fix it? we are all wondering? don t get it twisted. i put so much on congress as well. they did nothing for two years. it s been an incredible disappointment. because i m afraid of a filibuster. brian: while nothing gets done. how do you explain the poll that came out backed up by polls that followed that in the latino community the residence president s popularity went up 19 points? i want to see how many hispanics go vote. give the guy a chance to fail. okay, let s go.
border patrol agent say [inaudible conversations] for the last six years, republicans have been in control of congress so why did they not fix it? we are all wondering? don t get it twisted. i put so much on congress as well. they did nothing for two years. it s been an incredible disappointment. because i m afraid of a filibuster. brian: while nothing gets done. how do you explain the poll that came out backed up by polls that followed that in the latino community the residence president s popularity went up 19 points? i want to see how many hispanics go vote. give the guy a chance to fail. okay, let s go.