transcript of, democrats have controlled the narrative by keeping the depositions behind closed doors they've prevented proceedings from becoming a media circus. they've been content to let the white house go in front of the cameras where trump and his staffers keep admitting to the stuff they're doing in broad daylight. the latest instance may be the most damaging and mind blowing yet. >> the demand for an investigation into the democrats was part of the reason that he ordered to withhold funding to ukraine. >> the look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation, and that is absolutely appropriate? >> withholding the funding? yeah. >> to be clear what you just 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, and i have news for everybody. get over it. there's going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> perhaps the seemingly simple terms of the scandal how obvious