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Investigations into a company his son hunter was on the board of. the 2016 letter was signed by republican senators rob portman, ron kirk and ron johnson. last week, johnson signed on to a letter asking william barr to investigate allegations surrounding biden and ukraine. president trump is throwing a lot of allegations around, but his sources alleging corruption are accused of being corrupt themselves. cnns matthew chance is live in kiev for us this morning. good morning. what are you learni...

This, the impeachment proceedings would have been five years ago before they even became president, and were sitting here pretending that there has to be some different bar for this president in order to prove that he did something that was against what he should be doing in office. >> im not saying its not -- im not saying that its not wrong. it is obviously wrong. its almost obviously -- ill say almost because i want to see the full case made. an abuse of power. but that is not a crime that pe...

Became president, and were sitting here pretending that there has to be some different bar for this president in order to prove that he did something that was against what he should be doing in office. >> im not saying its not -- im not saying that its not wrong. it is obviously wrong. its almost obviously -- ill say almost because i want to see the full case made. an abuse of power. but that is not a crime that people are familiar -- >> did you read the phone call? >> of course. but i am not --...

Inspector general arriving for his closed door testimony on capitol hill. of course this about the whistle-blower complaint regarding the presidents interactions with ukraine. we will give you yupts as we hear more. meanwhile the ukraine prosecutor general said today the country will review all high profile cases handled by the previous prosecutor general. and that krurnlly could include the investigation of a natural gas company linked to joe bidens son hunter. this comes appears explosive new ...

To the whistle-blower process, which is designed for extreme circumstances, right, when you witness what you believe to be wrongdoing, the damage to that by having this kind of public raining down of questioning and attacks. >> i think a number of things are concerned. one is that in will certainly not encourage other whistleblowers to come forward, right, because they would see themselves potentially in the mid-of an experience like this. >> seems to be partly by design. >> it does seem to be. ...

Explain why it was the policy and on these complaint form of his office that you could only file a complaint if you had firsthand knowledge of wrongdoing inside the intelligence community. instead that was the policy at the time of the phone call between the president and the president of ukraine. then suddenly it changed and he accepted a complaint based on second hand knowledge and news reports. i think that is frankly bizarre and it brings up the question of whether this complaint was actuall...

How does all of that sit with you? what do you think about that? >> thats a lot to impact there. i think thats one of the reasons we should be having these hearings at the house intelligence committee. lets start with a whistle-blower, i think we should be protecting the whistle-blower because they made an allegation, they are just that, allegations about wrongdoing that we should pursu pursue. i think mayor giulianis perspective on this and understanding what hes doing, disrupting the world act...

With the president and impeachment inquiry? >> as far as i know, thousand republicans back in the clinton time didnt vote on something like that. look, if theres any evidence of wrongdoing, sure. that should be investigated. it should be visited by our government in our country, not the ukrainians or the chinese were some foreign nation. but that shouldnt really take our eye off the big picture, harris. which is, is it okay for a leading american political official, whether its chuck schumer or ...

President of the united states on this issue. >> neil: for a lot of americans, its confusing. what they do know in the democratic party, other democratic candidates dont have to mention this and joe biden just hoping that he implodes because of it is. that a real possibility now because of it? >> no, not at all. theres no evidence that theres any wrongdoing. joe biden is doing strong as are the rest of the candidates for -- >> neil: hes not doing as strong. im not here to judge what happened -- ...

>> i havent, but its certainly something we can start thinking about. >> reporter: it comes as the u.s. and china are embroiled in a trade war. president trump says there will be talks in washington next week. >> china is coming in next week. were going to have a meeting with them, well see. i have a lot of options on china, but if they dont do what we want, we have tremendous power. >> reporter: joe bidens son, hunter, has had business dealings with china, but theres been no evidence of any wro...