whistleblower about his phone call with the president of ukraine. he said whoever did so was, quote, close to a spy, and, quote, that in the old days, and this is paraphrased, that spies were dealt with differently in the old days. what do you make of this? >> the president is showing us who he is. he has a ruthless recklessness with the way he speaks which is not only vicious and cruel, but frankly, it is viol ativ e fortunate standards in our nation, the decency that should come from the highest office in the land. he is just continually making it worse for himself the more he opens his mouth. >> i want to talk to you about the facts as we know them at this point. the call transcript which we saw yesterday demonstrates the president pressuring ukraine to provide dirt on joe biden as the president at the time was holding up approved aid to ukraine. the whistleblower complaint also alleges the white house officials hid a transcript of