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Acceptable for politicians to pressure foreign leaders to look into and investigate political rivals because that is what is being said, being reported happened on this phone call and it alarms a lot of people. >> i wasnt on the call but i have no reason to believe that the president pressured or anything else any foreign leader. this was largely a congratulatory call and theyll be a meeting this week and i think this is a lot being made up about one persons speculation. and again, this isnt the...

Could very quickly clear up allegations about his own wrongdoing by releasing transcripts, by allowing people to testify before the relevant committees of congress. but instead of taking the most straightforward route to ending this problem, he tries to shift blame onto his own counterparts in the election. so i think this is once again a situation where you have the president of the united states failing to do the right thing on behalf of the american people and on behalf of our national securi...

Already in the ukraine and ukraine -- ukraines got a lot of problems. the new president is saying hes going to be able to rid the country of corruption, and i said that would be a great thing. we had a great conversation. >> the presidents acknowledgment there comes after a source familiar with the situation tells cnn that the president did pressure the ukrainian leader to investigate his political rival joe biden and his son hunter biden during a phone call earlier this summer. that was back in...

>> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. good morning. we are so glad youre with us here. several well-known democrats are repeating their calls for the impeachment of president trump this morning. this is the ukrainian whistle-blower controversy is unfolding. while campaigning in iowa yesterday, senator elizabeth warren said the president believes he is above the law and congress must hold him accountable. >> also congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez...

Government releasing their version of the transcript? >> i think their version would be the same as our version. they would be identical. but they did put out a statement last night, and in the statement they said it was a very, very fine conversation. and there was no pressure, no nothing. that was not pressure. i know when i give pressure, and that was not pressure. >> we should note that according to the ukranian prosecutor, there is no evidence of wrongdoing by either joe or hunter biden. ...

>> president trump just minutes ago answering questions about his call with ukraines president last july. to be clear, there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by either hunter or joe biden according to the ukrainian prosecutors and this week congress is set to press the trump administration over the decision to block lawmakers from seeing a whistleblower report we know deals with that phone call. joining me now house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff, democrat of california. do you want...

Your son about his overseas business dealings? >> ive never spoken to my son about overseas business dealings. >> how do you know -- >> i know trump deserves to be investigated. he is violating every basic norm of a president. you should be asking him the question why is he on the phone with a foreign leader trying to intimidate the foreign leader. >> look what hunter said when asked about what he said with his father and the new yorker. they wrote as hunter recalled, his father discussed burism...

The real dynamic is that the officials and ukraine and all independent investigation sos f -- investigations so far have not found any wrongdoing in the sense he was trying to influence any investigation into the natural gas company by all indications it was dormant and again, even look at what were talking about. in essence, you have the president, you know, spouting a charge that has so far no basis in fact potentially violating diplomatic and kind of democratic norms to an extraordinary extre...

>> this is a critical quote. and its a very vulnerable country. its the president of the united states holding nearly $250 million from ukraine, a country under tremendous military pressure from russia, and at the same time pressuring them to smear the legal democratic candidate for president. he has done no wrongdoing and this is an extraordinary situation. there will be pressure on republicans, i think, to speak o out. . stomp the -- he said hes not worried how this could impact his presiden...

>> yeah. and the person that was fired for investigating his son was fired several hours after that because the ukraine was so worried about not getting the funds. if we want to talk about obstruction of justice, we have it on videotape. you played it earlier in your segment of joe biden saying exactly what he did. but everyone seems to be looking the other way. the media are looking the other way. the democrats pretend it didnt happen. the things theyre accusing president trump of are totally a...