defending president trump. fred, we've seen lately some poking of fun at the u.s., even at the president in russian state media. this kind of stuff doesn't happen by accident in russia. tell us how they're covering the ukraine story. >> reporter: you're absolutely right. it certainly doesn't happen by accident that they would be poking fun at the president or at the united states. but you can really see as these impeachment hearings are going on, there's a lot of coverage going down here in russia. a lot of it is very much in the corner of president trump. and they certainly are also saying all this proves that the u.s. really doesn't care that much about ukraine and that ukraine needs to make a deal with the russians as fast as possible. here's what we're learning. >> the kremlin is feasting on the impeachment inquiry in the u.s. state run media clearly taking president trump's side even echoing talking points used by republicans during the first hearing trying to discredit testimony from america's top