the demand for an investigation into the democrats was part of the reason that he wanted to withhold funding to ukraine. >> the look back to what happened in 2016 was part of the thing that he was worried about. >> what you described is a quid pro quo. it is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened, as well. >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. >> there's no clarifying or cleaning it up because, you know, he said what he said and frankly all that mulvaney did was say what trump said himself in the transcript of the phone call with the president of the ukraine. the president brought up military aid and trump asked for a favor investigating the democrats and joe biden. trump actually said this on camera. >> mr. president, what exactly did you hope zelensky would do about the bidens after the phone call, exactly?