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A former government minister, suspected of self-dealing, granting licenses for oil and gas concessions to help his company. and allowing burisma to evade taxes. anti-corruption watchdog doreena. >> burisma has a bad reputation. in ukraine we actually appeared when we had to fight two wars. war with russia, war with corruption. >> in an attempt to improve its image and shield itself from scrutiny in 2014 burisma assembled a new board of directors. the company brought in several high-profile names...

Critical of not just joe biden but also a little bit critical of mitch mcconnell as well. the joe biden team is campaigned publicly exsore united stated the "new york times" for doing. this for effectively going out of their lane that they shouldnt have done it. this is what totalitarians do to state media. expectation bye bye den campaign that you do not criticize him. brian: its the craziest thing ever. they are demanding people stop booking rudy giuliani. they are upset at the "new york times...

>> not only did trump send rudy giuliani, a man of great integrity -- [ laughter ] >> -- his personal lawyer to carry out his scheme and coop the state department, its been alleged that the allies of giuliani were working on a side deal to make millions of ukraine. its been alleged. they dont know for a fact. a corrupt scheme with the help of corruption and self-dealing on the side, classic trump. >> mike, i know youre standing out there watching for biden to come out of that door. we will come ...

One of those with the perception that she was self-dealing. that she used her office to enrich herself and her family, and that she and her husband had created sort of this network of self-employment that spanned the world. here is a story that fits into that same narrative. as democrats think about, they think about joe bidens baggage, whether his son did anything illegal or not, what the bidens did in relation to profiting from his fathers position, its tacky. it doesnt make people feel good. ...

Was he self-dealing? was he working towards a political campaign and all that matters. remember, a week ago, i asked the head of the united states intelligence what was mr. giulianis role. and he honestly had no clue. thats a horrible way to run a government. its particularly dangerous, especially when youre talking about classified information. what was his role, what exactly was he doing? what exactly did he request from ukraine? and did it conflate with all of these other roles. >> well, its ...

Favor. meet with the attorney general and his ternl lawyperson lawyer with some matters that would smear his potential rival while holding up almost $400 million in aid that the congress has already voted to give the ukraine. >> yeah, i think one justin amash, republican congressman has indicated he would support an impeachment inquiry although hes distanced himself from the republican conference since then. other than that i think theres definitely a strong case to be made that this is as secre...

Tortion, as a way to get nra insiders in effect promising the lucrative kinds of business deals to grease their access into the united states. also, what we were able to expose is this trip in october of 2015 the nra lied about. they didnt say that it was an official trip. it was, and it was all about nra insiders trying to enrich themselves personally. and thats why the next step is im going to be looking at whether or not their tax exemption should stand given the fact this is mostly about sel...

What is their case, abuse of power? >> yes. abuse of power, self-dealing, inviting foreign influence. basically the try effefekt trif offyinof evils. if they dont get unified behind this, theres no there, there, create some kind of constitutional separation of powers argue men, this is a primia facia case of exactly the kind of thing that would warrant high crimes and misdemeanors, which is beyond the criminal code and in violation of the oath of office. >> jimmy, heres why you should be having ...

Our government. i think it leads us to more serious conversations about impeachment inquiry. i urge fellow democrats to think about what articles of impeachment should say, write it in language so you can more effectively sell it to the american public, so people understand what the case is and quite frankly as you build that case against donald trump, all cards should be on the table. youre looking at a president engaged in a massive self dealing, used the presidency to enrich himself, in viola...

Conduct. it is about whether or not what he is doing or has done as president of the united states is right or wrong and why. thats it. i dont want to hear about what crimes or its not a felony. its not our culture. it shouldnt be fel nony or fin. whats your situation about what is wrong, asha? >> whats wrong here is that the framers of our constitution clearly wanted to prevent a situation where the president was using his powers and his authority for self-dealing, to gain something personally....