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Imperative to con front iran, to please republican supporters and his only political instincts of foreign intervention and cutting a deal. does this give iran the upper hand in even these negotiations? >> iran is suffering economically but yes, it does give iran certain leverage. this was the point of this strike on the saudi oil facilities and the saudi oil field. it was to remind the united states and especially to remind the bellicose crown prince of saudi arabia, just how vulnerable saudi ar...

Wrong, i would go maybe to the fbi. its call opo research. >> jonathan, how do the fact that he is now president trump and not candidate trump complicate members for the president in regards to just listening to foreign entities? >> im not sure if it does complicate them. it seems from his perspective, it facilitates things, that he is the president of the united states, he has a vast spy network at his disposal, he has the vast resources of the u.s. government, including the money that it provi...

Towards europe, democracy, and free markets. by the way, the things that republicans also used to support. thats another paradox here. this is a pivotal moment in ukrainian history where they may actually break through to move towards democracy. and that is why when the president of the united states, instead of embracing that, instead of saying we support you 100%, he says instead i want to do this little trade with you, the little kind of the trades we have been telling the ukrainians to stop ...

Is not to show restraint. they had shown a fair degree of lulls. that didnt yield results. now theyre being more aggressive in their approach and theyre thinking that might bring the u.s. and other parties to loosen some of the sanctions because theyre threatening an ought-out w all-out war in the middle east. it has spread across the region. in many ways theyve boxed saudi arabia on three fronts. iran has proxies to the north in syria and iraq. iran itself lies to the east. and, of course, they...

Creates leverage. he cant just dismiss a request from the president of the united states. and i just think it is a terrible tragedy for american national interests. ily leave it to people more expert than i. this is not the way to conduct foreign policy. thank you so much, appreciate your time tonight. >> sure, thank you for having me. >> more on this next, including what all of the intrigue means for the whistle lower that came forward, stay right there. e low forward, stay right there. ♪

Ive requested a meeting with the president, mr. zielinski, and well discuss ukraines future. ukraine needs to have the support of the united states to push back against putin. we know putin took over crimea. know that putins little, green men are still operating in eastern ukraine. and we have a president that apparently, apparently is using leverage that he has available to him, withholding funds or promising additional funds to try to get an investigation under way. that is illegal. that is wr...

Leverage to get ukraine to investigate a political rival or that his associates did that, what recourse does congress have? is that impeachable? >> lets get to the bottom of this first. i wont cross bridges on hypotheticals, but ive asked the senate foreign relations committee to conduct an investigation. i frankly asked them to do that in may, and i reiterated that request today. the law clearly states this whistleblower complaint has to be disclosed to congress. they can only stonewall so long...

Now my former colleagues and i, i wonder what theyre doing. public corruption is one of those cases where ive seen it time again where an fbi agent picks up the newspaper and sees something they think might be information and allegation of some type of crime. so i wonder what theyre doing right now. >> rudy giuliani makes the case the president is within his right to ask any government to ferret out corruption in any place that he wants to, right? what is the shortcoming of that argument? >> wha...

Hes got leverage against these people who are trying to fight aggression from the russians and need this aid from our country to help them do it. it wasnt mentioned, but certainly it was the elephant in the room. or on the call. >> this is crazy. i mean, just -- i always feel like we need to do this, but if we were talking about anything like this with george w. bush or bill clinton or barack obama or george herbert walker bush, we would be -- you would be -- it would be hard to conceptualize. >...

Heated exchange between chris cuomo and rudy giuliani, who said that biden used his leverage with ukraine to force them to oust the prosecutor, who was considered to be corrupt and who was also going after a company that at the time was playing dumb like paying hunter biden $2,000 a month to be on their board >> joe biden, in january, in front of the council of foreign relations saying the whole thing. >> he said im going to give me this money if you get rid of this prosecutor? >> 100%, exactly!...