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Would audit it would review some of the past investigations, but that is a far cry from digging up dirt on biden and his son. sam kiley is following the story for us. sam is in ukraine, the capital city of kiev. we now know that ukraine will audit its cases overseen by its predecessors. is that bowing to pressure as critics are seeing this? and whats the view in that country? >> reporter: well, the view in ukraine, and very much the view of the prosecutor general this is not the result of americ...

Started. the trump white house has been subpoenaed in the ukraine scandal after failing to turn over records and documents voluntarily. even the vice president has been called up in it. democrats have asked mike pence to turn over details of his trip to poland where he met with ukraines new leader. >> all of thissel tos explosive testimony from the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine. kurt volker spoke to lawmakers about behind the scenes activities leading up to the july 25th phone call betw...

Aware that this looked particularly shady and he was trying to ensure that communications moved away from texts where they could be seen. >> youll remember candidate trump famously asked russia to look for hillary clintons emails. now the u.s. president in an unprecedented move urging other nations, ukraine and china, to investigate joe biden and his son and now the new ukraine prosecutor plans to audit cases overseen by his predecessors. biden has spoken out about this and he didnt pull any pun...

It and a lot has to do with how he did not trust their predecessors because he thought they were essentially responsible in part for the russia investigation. >> david, theres also this, of course. rudy giuliani telling the white house he -- those documents include claims against the bidens that form the basis of trumps accusations. trumps call with zell -- in that call with zelensky, what is going on with this? >> well, i think we dont fully know, don. we know there were a great number of docum...

British prime minister, boris johnson, wanting his help in all of this as well. when these two guys came into office, the president saw this not, don, as a diplomatic opening, but as a political one because he thought maybe they would be more cooperative in this investigation where the president essentially wants people to discredit the russia investigation. he thought these two guys were going to be able to help him do it, and a lot has to do with how he did not trust their predecessors because...

He thought they would be more cooperative with looking into the beginnings of the investigation. a lot had less to do with them and more do with their predecessors. because those two leaders, president trump had been deeply suspicious of based on our sources, because he blamed them in part for the beginning of the russia investigation and the role their countries played in it. >> senator graham sent letters to the prime ministers of australia, italy and the uk. >> urging these leaders to continu...

Set an excruciatingly high standard for one of his predecessors, secretary clinton, in terms of accountability to congress, and he doesnt appear at the moment to be holding himself to the same standard. and i think thats bad for democracy in america. >> why are they doing that? >> you know, i ask myself that very often. but i do have the sense that the dynamic is changing, because the evidence presented by the whistle-blower and confirmed in the transcript -- not transcript, the account of the c...

Predecessors, malcolm turnbull and theresa may. president trump had always been dpeeply suspicious of those two leaders based on our sources because he always blamed them in part for the beginning of the russia investigation and the role that their countries played in it. >> today senator graham sent letters, i understand, to the prime ministers of australia, italy, and the uk. >> reporter: a close ally of the president urging these leaders in this letter to continue working with bill barr, the ...

$50,000 a month plus a lot of other things. >> now with his administration in free fall, donald trump is flailing and down on national television, desperately clutching for conspiracy theories that have been debunked and dismissed by credible news organizations. the chair of the federal election commission had a statement in june that sad it is illegal for anyone running for office in the u.s. elections to elicit or receive anything of value from a foreign national." >> shepard: tesco >> an even...

Trump exaggerated the issue of illegal immigration in america. >> that is disappointing. you hear the mainstream media and liberal left politicians talking about an exaggerated crisis when the crisis was bigger than any crisis on the border in 22 years, border patrol agents, it wasnt true what donald trump was saying was absolutely true, record numbers of family units and unaccompanied children and people who dealt with before. >> the numbers dropped. >> the pressure on mexico, to cut deals any ...