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Again about the phone call in question. >> what did you tell the ukrainian president about joe biden and his son during your phone call? >> well, youre going to see because what we are doing is we want honesty. if we deal with a country, we want honesty. i think with the new president, youre going to see much more honesty in the ukraine. and thats what were looking for. were supporting a country. we want to make sure that country is honest. its very important to talk about corruption. if you don...

Who say they doubt it will, the president has said this person must be a democrat and later said he doesnt know the persons identity. we also saw it from rudy giuliani, the interview with cnn, its going to be about smokescreens and fog and trying to muddle the issue, in that case it was about joe biden. the people around the president think they can still lean in on the biden/ukraine corruption issue. lets be clear for the viewers, theres been no evidence of any wrongdoing, the prosecutor in the...

Until the caucuses. for one democratic candidate, a much tougher political reality, cory booker signaling a do-or-die moment for his campaign with an urgent appeal to for cash. >> were going to have to make the tough decisions. i think any campaign that doesnt have a pathway to victory should make. >> reporter: meanwhile, the political clash between biden and president trump growing increasingly personal. the former vice president lashing back at trump after the president admitted he discussed b...

Creating to the corruption already in the ukraine. >> biden says this is a clear case of abuse of power. hes calling on congress to investigate. to be clear, there is no evidence of wrong doing by joe biden or his son hunter. im joined now by representative gonzalez, he serves on the house foreign affairs committee. >> good to be here. >> you heard the president. that is the latest version he has of what happened. if it does turn out that the president indeed withheld aid to ukraine for any amou...

New tonight, the electric chair. president trump outrageously claiming that is what would happen to any republican who did what he wrongly claims his potential 2020 rival joe biden did. >> joe biden and his son are corrupt. if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, theyd be getting the electric chair by right now. >> all right, that comes as trump continues to defend pressuring the ukrainian president to investigate biden on a phone call, even th...

President. something u.s. and ukrainian officials have acknowledged >> translator: there was talk. conversations are different. leaders have the right to discuss any problems that exists. this conversation was long, friendly and it touched on a lot of questions, including those requiring serious answers. >> we had a great conversation. the conversation i had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place, was largely the fact that we dont want our people l...

Investigations into biden despite no evidence of wrong doing. >> i think if vice president biden behaved inappropriately and was protecting his son in a way that was corrupt, i think we need to get to the bottom of that. >> reporter: telling reporters sunday he hopes officials will release details of the call, but some advisers urging the opposite. >> i think that would be a terrible precedent. conversations between world leaders are meant to be confidential. >> reporter: a source telling cnn th...

Presidency, then he may force us to go down this road. i have spoken with a number of my colleagues over the last week, and this seals different in kind. and we may very well have crossed the rubicon here. >> and its not just democrats sounding the alarm. theres this tweet from utah republican senator mitt romney. hes saying if the president asked or pressured ukraines president for information on his political rival it would be troubling through the extreme, critco critical for the facts to com...

It because he needs those very same people to be the ones who are defending his conduct when the american people find out actually, no, he did do it. what we have is impeachable congress. congress doesnt need to find additional wrongdoing. it needs to establish its own record. that said it doesnt need to find a new quid pro quo, something that will make this even worse. it also doesnt need to find proof that it did happen. the president of the united states has gone on television and told us him...

Information the law is very clear. that whistle blower complaint shall be transmitted to the congress if the inspector general determines it was important enough. they get seven days to hand it off. the dni is saying, no, i will not comply with an act of congress, which remember is the peoples word. so congress made a determination, this kind of information nieds to be communicated with the congress so we can make sure that the executive branch is held accountable for extreme wrongdoing. all of ...