expressed his shared commitment to, quote, root out corruption, unquote, president trump in fact did not mention corruption at all on this call, just like he did not mention corruption on the july 25th call. shortly after this call, president trump asked vice president mike pence to attend president zelensky's inauguration. but on may 13th, president trump did an about face and directed vice president pence not to attend. an adviser to vice president pence testified the inauguration had not yet been scheduled and therefore the reason for the abrupt change of plans was not related to any scheduling issues. so what had happened in the three weeks between april 21th and may 13th when vice president pence was originally invite and then disinvited or removed from the delegation? a few things. first, on april 25th, vice president biden formally announced his bid for the