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Investigations into the bidens and burisma, and the phone call that david holmes overheard on july 26th, he says what the president asked was is he going to do the investigations. >> well, and again, we can talk about second and third and fourth information of people who ultimatelyily are going to testify. you can hear it from them on wednesday. but what the facts are, did the money actually go to ukraine, and even on the phone call with president trump and president zelensky, they talked about ...

Military aid, $391 million in aid that the u.s. congress, you, had helped, had authorized. the president suspended that, and the question is did he suspend it because all he cared about was investigating the bidens? >> no. and, in fact, part of what congress appropriated had language attached to it that required that the administration make sure that ukraine s rooting out corruption because there were elections during that same period you just mentioned x. zelensky got elected on a platform of r...

Are you sure hes going to say that this. >> well, no. i mean, again, im not going to try to prejudge what a witness might say on the stand. but, look, you know, lots of crimes can be committed, and this is typical in corrupt enterprises, by the boss hinting and giving direction and everything. you know, corrupt people dont always say,, hey, heres the signed contract. what has already developed from secondhand witnesses is that this aid was withheld as a condition. and, you know, steve scalise ma...

President trump has been much tougher in terms of dealing, in terms of giving aid to ukraine than president obama was. but president trump released the aid two days after the whistleblower complaint went public. >> well, president trump released the aid after he made sure by law, by the way, and pelosi voted for that law, schiff voted for the law that requires that he insure that corruption is being rooted out before taxpayer money goes to a country like that. chris: okay. ive got two more quest...

But at the same time news outlets have said there wasnt corruption. there wasnt a quid pro quo of joe biden doing something for hunter biden. >> right. when you drill into what actually happened here, the international community, the ifm, the eu were all calling for this ukrainian prosecutor to be removed because he wasnt investigating corruption. joe biden has said that as well. but with republicans muddying the water and putting out all sorts of narratives, you can forgive people were getting ...

Example of alleged corruption in ukraine. >> thats right, anderson. and its interesting woefr the last 48 hours we have seen the president shift rationale as to why, you know, he isnt in any hot water in all of this. he was saying earlier that they were holding up the money to ukraine because of his concerns about corruption. as you said, the united states has dealt with many he countries around the globe that have corruption have you issues. keep in mind saudi arabia execute add journalist it a...

Reaction of the icig where he said it was credible and urgent. and i dont recall receiving a urgent whistleblower complaint. i could be wrong. but i dont remember that over my six and a half years. >> interesting. the idea that the president is concerned about corruption in -- corruption around the world and corruption in ukraine -- i mean, you well know the reality of many goems th regimes we deal w around the world. if you are concerned about corruption in ukraine, would you be focusing on thi...

Positive about the prospect of getting information, with us we have seen a pattern of obstruction on the part of the white house. thats been their strategy to deny and delay and send everything to the courts. and jeffrey pointed out -- and he was right -- that there are certain things that are beyond their control. and this whistleblower is one of them. so, you know, my feeling is that the president has already put himself in a jam with his own admissions. he has acknowledged he talked to the pr...

Focused on joe bidden has more to do with the fact that he is trailing by double digits in polls against joe biden. >> right. >> more than his sudden interest in cleaning up government in ukraine. >> gloria if you were interested in corruption in ukraine probably going back ten years or missouri more to when joe biden was in office and his son was on the board of this thats not the best way to fight corruption in ukraine if thats really what you are going for. its odd thats what he focused on. >...

Ohr is to the whole organization. i thought the most jaw dropping thing to come out of hearing was he revealed that robert mueller has not interviewed him. robert mueller has not interviewed his wife. keep in mind, is he a fact witness. he is one -- if they are waiting to interview the president at the end, bruce ohr would be one of the guys they would interview first because they knew that what does that say? if robert mueller was not interviewed bruce ohr does that mean they dont think there w...