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President had with officials. i agree this is just one part of the puzzle, but its part of the president not really caring about what zelensky did on the corruption, and really just what matters to him. >> and that was the testimony today, he was more cared about things that mattered to him. thank you for coming on so late. >> we appreciate it. have a really nice weekend. another big aheheadline, ro stone, convicted of federal crimes. the verdict, next. too much! i can rent this? for that pric...

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Frankly of all the things that happened today, this will be the least important. because so much else happened during the day and in the afternoon that are much bigger and frankly worse stories for the white house. >> one of the big issues here, this is or was the talking point from the white house and the president, from the presidents allies, and the republicans. they wanted to make sure, jim jordan said it, they wanted to make sure this guy, the new president of ukraine was up to snuff. he wo...

Including corruption. that readout, done and dusted before the actual call took place, and was shared with the president before they updated it, i wonder what this does to the argument that all the president cared about in ukraine was rooting out corruption. >> and thats why they held up aid, yeah. >> people that want to make something out of it will. >> the president and his team have said from the beginning that all he cared about in ukraine was rooting out corruption, and his first call doesn...

>> according to the rest of the transcript, the president invites zelensky to the white house, and even brings up his work with the miss universe pageant that he used to own. but theres one big thing missing in the transcript, in it there is not a single mention of any discussion about corruption. why does that matter? the official white house readout of that call distributed to the press at the time of the call says they talked about corruption. >> and that was supposed to be the presidents foc...

Ambassador. and she asks plaintively, how can our system fail like this? how could it be that foreign, corrupt interests can do this? and it speaks to her as a victim of allegations of abuse of authority by the president. she was not so much a witness today as were kent and taylor wednesday, it was more, i was the victim of this campaign, and this is what happens when people abuse their powers. the priorities of the united states take second seat to the political personal priorities of the presi...

Stuff that benefits the president, such as the biden investigation. >> on wednesday, gordon sondland will have to answer even more questions under oath about that question. because hes set to testify in public. this, as holmes has revealed at least two other people in that restaurant during that phone call heard the comments through the phone. also, the white house released a rough transcript of president trumps first call with the ukrainian president. which did not mention corruption, making th...

You as important, there was no mention of it? >> well, yeah. i mean, if it was in the readout, and its not in the transcript, it would help the president if they found the rest of the transcript and it was in there. also theres no mention of him pressuring zelensky for any kind of political favors. and the white house also wanted to put it out to force more conversation about them trying to be transparent about the presidents conversations with zelensky. there were good reasons to put it out, bu...