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Oligarch or self-dealing but 2016 and the bidens, was that your understanding? >> that was my understanding. >> and in fact, when you said your staff overheard this call between ambassador sondland and the president, in that call the president brings up investigation, does he not? >> he did. >> and immediately after the president gets off the phone with sondland, sondland is asked by your staff what does the president think about ukraine and his also is hes just interested in the bidens, am i ri...

Example, the right to certain energy licenses. correct? >> that is one element. yes, sir. >> and the company burisma, its leader, he has a little bit of a storied history of corruption, doesnt he? >> mr. la krzyzewski was minister of energy in 2010-2012. he used his authority to award gas an act of corruption in my view, yes. >> certainly self-deal? >> certainly self-dealing and self-enriching. >> and how did the ukrainian government ultimately pursue that? >> in the spring of 2014 the ukrainian...

>> the time of the gentleman has expired. i will now move to five-minute member rounds. i recognize myself for five minutes. mr. kent, i want to follow up on my colleagues questions regarding burisma. you testified about a time when an oligarch named la krzyzewski, i think it was was self-dealing awarding himself contracts when was that, to my knowledge, he was minister of ecology 2010 to 2012. at the time licenses to have exploration of gas were awarded by subdivision of the ministry of ecology...

Board of burisma in 2014. >> and you have read the call transcript. have you not? >> i have. and i have it in front of me but i havent read it for about a month. >> is there any mention of the discussion with president trump and president zelensky oligarch la krzyzewski who seven years earlier had been self-dealing. >> to my knowledge, no. >> is there a discussion of awarding contracts to oneself or the corrupt acts in the 2012 to 2014 time frame. >> to the best of my knowledge, no. >> the presi...

Self-dealing but 2016 and the bidens. was that your understanding? >> that was my understanding. >> and, in fact, when you said your staff overheard this call between ambassador sondland and the president, in that call, the president brings up investigation. does he not? >> he did. >> and, immediately after the president gets off the phone with sondland, sondland is asked by your staff what does the president think about ukraine? and his answer is he is just interested in the bidens. am i right?...

By virtual theft, for example, their rights on certain energy licenses, correct? >> thats one element. >> the company, burisma, he had a little bit of a story history of corruption, does he? >> mr. lachesky, he used his authority to himself controlled. that would be an act of corruption in my view. yes. >> self-dealing and self-enriching. >> how did the ukrainian government pursue that? >> the new government, the revolution of dignity turns into partner with the u.s. and u.k. to try to recover t...

Options. a source told cnn he is now in charge of weekwork. the company has been struggling after softbank bailing out the company. adam neumann was pushed out after controversy. hes been criticized after strange management techniques and accusations of self-dealing. legeres t-mobile has had its own issues. its merger with sprint has to get regulatoryapproval. its facing a lawsuit from 15 states over antitrust concerns. the suit is expected to go to trial next month. legere is credited with tran...

In office entirely. its completely self-dealing. and hell put america at risk in one way after another in order to promote his own interests. financial, political, whatever. so yes, were not going to get a conviction in the senate, barring something totally unforeseen. the unknown unknown coming out in this process, which might happen. its what happened with nixon, after all. but thats not the -- the end game is to convince america that the risk of keeping trump as president, whether hes not rem...

Together here. this is a challenge. you see who they put forward, who is going to be there on wednesday, who going to be there on friday. how difficult is it going to be to make this case? >> i think it is easier for the mueller mountain of paperwork for americans to ideas. the simple idea of a quid pro quo is -- that is the point of debate. thats something that people can understand. thats the idea of kind of self dealing and trading off. and i think it has been interesting. we have seen obviou...

Athena jones is all over this. the president has already shut down the trump foundation but he tweeted he would never settle, nothing wrong, but he has. >> thats right. he tweeted that he would never settle this lawsuit. he believes its politically motivated. we heard more of that in his statement in response to this settlement. he did end up settling. not only did he settle. he admitted to a long list of the allegations he was accused of. >> in the settle settlement, he admissions. he admits to...