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Doors, blunt reserve lakeses from kurt volker. special envoy to ukraine. one exchange volker told lawmakers there was no individually to trumps biden allegation. from the transcript, question, you did not believe there was any validity to the two allegations? volker, i did not. question, called them earlier yet thats what president trump wanted zelensky to commit to investigating before he could get volker. right. question, a visit to the white house. cnns lauren fox with me now with more on wha...

>> not just amateur hour for kurt volker but all the way up to the president. seems completely fixated trying to show russia did not hand him the 2016 election and so hes buying into this ukrainian stuff and then pompeo is also letting it go down. even though earlier as cia chief he suggested there had been russian interference in the 2016 election. we just get, like, the idea that there are a lot of different pots on the fire in this administration, but nobody is actually watching the stove. >>...

Surprised and troubled that the president was trying to push for investigations into his political rivals that as you read he didnt believe there was any have a lvalidity to those a and also said he was concerned about rudy giulianis role and what it would do to the u.s. relationship between the u.s. and ukraine. in part because of bipartisan support on capitol hill to give ukraine the aid and belief from the ukrainians if they got involved in u.s. politics it could damage their relationship wit...

Anti-corruption statement we discussed for weeks. that was about biden and burisma, and, of course, that statement never occurred and ambassador volker told them to drop it, because he thut ought was ridiculous. but the clear here the ukrainians knew there was a quid pro quo. and that they were being asked to do something they felt very uncomfortable doing, because they didnt want to get involved in domestic politics over in this country, and, also, they thought it had been investigated at one p...

Had already appropriated money, and rudy giuliani was somebody who was representing the president, himself, who knows what. never wanted to be secretary of state at one point. never became secretary of state, but was certainly acting as secretary of state here. and these were people -- i want to be a little bit more positive towards volker. i think they were trying to figure out a way to work around giuliani. i think volker wanted to do the right thing but not quite sure how to do it so he playe...

On the other hand, what you get from at least the excerpts ive seen is this whole thing is amateur hour including with volker. hes talking about how as they get to the end of the process of negotiating, this statement, rudy giuliani says these two things have to be in a public statement. you have to put in the biden investigation, you have to put in the 2016 election interference investigation and you have ukrainians telling him, well, is that actually an official department of justice request f...