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Went to ukraine and donald trump said part of it is he wanted to put a hold on the funding because other governments should do more, europe should do more, europe funds much more than the united states does on these fronts? >> absolutely. im always for our allies doing more and more, but theres no question that ukraine is getting a lot of support from the european union and a lot of other international institutions. its clearly not why our military aid to ukraine was suspended at a moment when r...

Corruption or this guy an unknown entity and the unknown entity won. he called for slap elections of the parliament so he would be able to actually enact all the things he needs to enact to get rid of corruption. its a new ball game. >> so, jeeremy, lets pick up te story. so that gets us to this role that rudy giuliani has played and i think this is the most -- what is his role and if you were still in government, what would you think his role was? >> well, hes not a government official. he does...

Problem im facing right now is unfortunately, and its unfortunate and its being realistic, countries look upon india as a market of 1.2 billion people. and thats what im sad to say thats what the indian prime minister -- thats his leverage. and thats why hes done something so incredible, revoking the constitution, going against u.n. resolutions, and hes actually boxed in these people. and so u.n. -- u.s. being the strongest country in the world would leverage the u.n. security council and just a...

Neighbor to facilitate these conspiracy theories, and on the issue that really matter, that russia included his country, saying, you know, i hope you work it out. im sure putin is committed to doing that. thats taking putins side just like he did in he helsinki when he said putin didnt interfere in our election. >> wendy, the europeans wanted this prosecutor out of the way in ukraine. >> absolutely. >> because they felt just nothing serious was happening with this prosecutor. >> absolutely, the ...

Officials? nothing except his client, the president has a lot of leverage because lo and behold the office the presidency conveys a lot of clout and the united states is considering a massive military aid package and thats exactly what the president laid on the table on july 25th in that phone call and notably in the whistle-blowers complaint we saw this morning, chuck, on august 2nd a week later giuliani went for the follow-up meeting to have direct follow-up on the july 25th phone call. >> so,...

Dollars. that assistance going to ukraine, thats our tax dollars being used like a part of trumps campaign war chest to leverage, again, a foreign leader to do his bidding. id like to see us pull all these different threads in terms of what was going on around not just this phone call, but ukraine policy in general. >> wendy, all these years on the call, one whistle-blower, only one. >> yes. i think were in a time where people are terrified to become a whistle-blower. you have to be pretty sure ...

Within the administration, in that it lays out a scheme to use the leverage of the presidency, use the leverage of the vital military assistance to a foreign nation to provide or obtain dirt on a political opponent. its hard to imagine a more serious set of allegations than those contained in the complaint. the complaint goes further, obviously, than the record of the call in that it also alleges there were efforts made to conceal this scheme by moving communications on to servers that were desi...

We want to know what role rudy giuliani had in all of this. we want to know what role bill barr had in any of this. we want to know what ukraine understood was expected of them before they even had this july phone call with the president of the united states. so we know what we have to do. of course well be guided by the evidence we find along the way. >> reporter: what potential crimes do you see in the complaint? >> look, i think there are any number of potential crimes, when a president is so...

For a nefarious reason, that is to exercise leverage for the president of ukraine to dig up dirt on his opponent, can we agree that it was urgent while that aide was being withheld? >> theres two -- >> im talking about the two things that it means. this was urgent as everyone understands that term. can we agree that it was urgent? >> it was urgent and important, but my job as the director of national intelligence was to comply with the whistle-blower protection act and adhere to the definition o...

Past, i just cant imagine in my lifetime seeing a president using his political power and using his leverage to try to pressure a vulnerable nation into doing his bidding to go after a political opponent. this is despicable behavior and im not going to let him do what he normally tries to do is to try to point pifingers of blame and try to dispratract people through his toxicity and his lies and this lies at his feet and the midwestern people deser deserve to know the truth about it. >> thank yo...