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This, it doesnt matter. look theyre both wrong. this matters, and it matter because if it is true that the president is linking military aid to an investigation of joe biden, he is not only inviting a foreign government to interfere in our upcoming election, but he is implicitly telling the ukrainians what the outcome should be. the ukraines prosecutor general has come out and said on the ror -- record that he has seen no evidence of wrong doing. he is saying i dont like what your answer is, and...

This is widely discredited, a conspiracy theory involving joe biden and ukraine. joining me now is cnn reporter and fact-checker daniel dale. democrats are accusing trump of wrongdoing, trying to rope a foreign ally into helping his re-election campaign and trump then has pointed the finger back at biden saying that he in fact should be investigated. lets dig into these unproven claims that trump is making about the former vice president. >> what happened is ukraine had a top prosecutor who a lo...

Those rare occasions when someone has put personal political interests above the country. second, i think we ought to hear why the director of national intelligence is able to block a vital whistle-blower report like this. im here in the state of iowa. senator chuck grassley, republican of iowa, has long championed whistle-blowers of both parties against interests of both parties. my hope is that senator grassley will prove his continued commitment to the idea that whistle-blowers help keep our ...

Evidence of any wrongdoing. we and many other media outlets have looked into it the story doesnt check out. jeremy diamond is at the white house. the president referred as he has in the past to all of this drama as a witch hunt. and yet when asked in the oval office about this famous phone call with president zlinsky on the 25th, when asked if he brought up biden on the call, he didnt deny it. >> reporter: no, he didnt deny it. in fact the president has refused to say whether or not he did, inde...

Never uncovered any wrongdoing by the bidens. heres the deal -- you can choose not to believe the findings of the ukrainian investigation. you can even suspect there might have been more to this, but the president of the united states cannot urge another government to keep digging into the business connections of his political opponents family in front of an election while, i dont know, threatening implicitly or explicitly to withhold $250 million in military aid. that is what reports are allegi...

>> heres what i 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 a foreign leader if thats what happened? you should be looking at trump. trump is doing this because he knows ill beat him like a drum and he is using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me. everybody looked at this. and everybody ...

Investigation. bloomberg has reported it was told the investigation was dormant at the time biden made this push. regardless trump insinuated hunter biden himself, the vice presidents son, was personally under investigation and we have no evidence for that in particular. >> so what has biden said about his involvement in ukraine? does the story check out? >> reporter: well, biden has boasted about his effort to oust the prosecutor. hes openly told the story as an example of his efforts to fight ...

Senator chuck grassley has long channelled whistle blowers. my hope is that senator grassley will prove his continued commitment to the idea that whistle blowers help keep our country accountable and open. he also will press for that. >> lets talk about why youre there in iowa. youre campaigning and i have to ask you, we know the doj is involved in advising the dni to withhold the whistle-blower complaint from congress. is attorney general bill barr trying to cover up the presidents wrongdoing? ...

Said that something was there. >> this all centers on a conversation president trump had at the end of july. trump pressed ukraines president to investigate hunter who once worked for a ukrainian energy company. there was no evidence of wrong doing by joe or hunter biden. in a tweet today, the president says nothing was said that was in any way wrong in his conversation with the you craneian leader. just can dean is standing by with the biden campaign, but were going to start with sarah westwood...

That foreign country in order to provide this as dirt on one of his owe political opponents, to interfere in the united states election. this is unbelievably disturbing. i think it was probably the single most serious allegation that has come out of this white house and frankly one of the most serious allegations of wrongdoing in the history of the united states presidency. i do not make that statement lightly, i really dont. >> max, i want to know what you think about this because as i said to ...