is an ongoing investigation by the department of justice into the 2016 election. i can't remember the person's name. durham, okay? that's an ongoing investigation. you're saying the president of the united states, the chief law enforcement person, cannot ask somebody to cooperate with an ongoing public investigation into wrongdoing? that's just bizarre to me that you would think that you can't do that. >> so you would say it's fine to ask about the dnc but not biden. biden is running for the democratic nomination for 2020. >> that's a hypothetical statement because that did not happen here. >> no, no, on the call the president did ask about investigating the bidens. are you saying the money that was held up, that had nod with biden.