t -- on the first of september. >> he told me president trump told him that he wants president zelensky to state publicly that ukrain will investigate in the 2016 election and that he wanted the president in a public box by making a public statement about ordering such a investigation. >> both men saying how unsettled they were. >> it's one thing to try to leverage a meeting in a white house it's another thing, i thought, to leverage security assistance. >> as a general principal i do not believe the united states should ask other countries to engage in selective, politically associative investigations or pr prosecutions.