Envoy to ukraine who resigned just days ago is providing the Text Messages to congress. Kurt volker and i just mentioned this and hes still there behind closed doors on capitol hill and he is now in his ninth hour of a deposition. He has handed over encrypted texts that he received and heres heres the key thing. The top u. S. Diplomat to ukraine in one of these texts writes he was very concerned about the president withholding aid money from ukraine. That Career State Department official wrote and youve got to quote this, i think its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a political campaign. So you cant get more clear than that. This is according to multiple reports this evening. And the text came in Early September and the reason i want to emphasize that date and that means that text was sent before the news broke that there was even a whistleblower. Trumps diplomat believed that the president of the United States was withholding Security Assistance for help on his reelection campaign. Trump has denied time and time again that there was a quid pro quo. There was no quid pro quo at all. There was no quid pro quo. If you take a look at that call. It was perfect. I didnt do it. There was no quid pro quo. The top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine obviously believed otherwise, and of course, the transcript of the president s own phone call asks him asking for a, quote, favor from the ukraine president when the president brought up military aid. Today to make it seem that his actions with ukraine were okay, trump went out publicly and asked another country to interfere in the u. S. Election. This time its china, a country the United States is currently negotiating a trade deal with. They should investigate the bidens because how does a company thats newly formed and all these companies, and by the way, likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens. By the way, as i said much more on that breaking story in just a moment. I want to point out the irony of what the president said there because it is quite something. The reason is because heres trump talking about china interfering in american elections just last year. Regrettably, we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election. We learned that they are trying to meddle in our elections, and were not going to let that happen. Unless its to help him. I mean, heres the thing, trump may be doubling down on asking Foreign Countries to help because he knows the facts on ukraine and theyre in black and white and he cant hide that. It could be with china, too. He may want us to think this is all okay despite the hypocrisy that you just heard, but President Trump knows that asking a country for help. Remember this. Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. He is talking about Hillary Clintons emails and his words then might have mattered because the Mueller Report concluded, quote, within five hours of trumps remark a Russian Intelligence Service began targeting email account for Hillary Clinton with possible hacks and talk about speaking publicly and getting private gain. Trump asked china to investigate his political rival publicly and as we said we have breaking details this hour about what he did privately. The president is doing this well aware that the biggest trade deal in history is on the table. Everything matters with china right now, and American Consumers are paying higher prices as a result of that trade war. The president may be asking china to investigate biden, maybe to give himself cover for a call that he knows the public may find out about with the presidency or the cover with the private call with the president of ukraine because remember, the bottom line here is this crucial text tonight. When the president asks the top diplomat in ukraine described it by saying, quote, i think its crazy to withhold assistance for help for a political campaign. That text was sense by an encrypted server, a text nobody ever thought would see the light of day and it is a text that kurt volker showed congress, as i said, he is still behind closed doors and we are going to get to everything we know about the crucial testimony in just a minute on capitol hill with manu raju. First, though, the breaking developments on china. Kylie atwood is out front in washington. You have breaking information about a phone call that President Trump had with the chinese president xi where he talked about biden, a call that was also stored in that superclassified system which would not fit with protocol . Reporter yeah, thats right. So over the sumner june, President Trump spoke over the phone with president xi of china, and he did bring up joe biden, the former Vice President , who is now his most formidable democratic opponent leading up to 2020. He also brought up Elizabeth Warren. He brought him up in the sense of his political prospects. Warren was rising in the polls at the time and he talked about them politically. He did not, at that time according to sources familiar with this call encourage the chinese to investigate biden, but that is what he did publicly today, and we should note that he came out to reporters and encouraged china to investigate joe biden. Now this phone call back in june, it did go into that secret, that highly sensitive server that the ukraine call went into. Its a place where the white house stores these conversations that they want to keep particularly away from most peoples eyes. They dont want them to get out. The other thing we should mention, however, is that the chinese were thrown off guard today. I spoebke with the chinese diplomat after the comments were made with friday, and it was quite chaotic. Trump wanted the chinese to invest gate joe joe beaden via the report and the chinese had no interest in getting involved in the u. S. Political process. Well see how this plays out. We havent seen a formal response from the china ease yet. Thank you very much. Significant in light of the request to china to investigate joe biden. I want to go to capitol hill with manu raju with the crucial testimony still unfolding where you are. That text that i was just sharing and you know so much more. What are you learning about what volker has been telling Congress Today . Reporter right. Hes been in there for nine and a half hours and we are told that he actually just left. It appears that it finally wrapped up after a full day, a marathon testimony behind closed doors getting questions from republicans and democrats alike. Weve learned some aspects of what he has told these three committees that are pushing forward on this impeachment inquiry. In the aftermath of that phone call between president zelensky of ukraine and President Trump in which trump asked zelensky to launch an investigation into the bidens, we are told that volker testified that he actually urged the Ukrainian Government not to go forward not to interfere with the u. S. Politics, and he also made clear that there were questions that were raised by the Ukrainian Government repeatedly to him about why military aid had been withheld, u. S. Military aid that had been approved by the u. S. Congress and why was that not provided to the ukraine. He had no good answers for the officials when he was asked. Also, was there a planned meeting that had been in the works and that had been discussed in washington, with the new Ukrainian Administration and prdz. That meeting had been put on ice about why that meeting had been put on ice and in the transcript they do reference a meeting that zelensky was eager to have in washington and there had been questions internally in ukraine about why that wasnt happening and volker behind closed doors said he couldnt answer that and he also raised concerns about the source of Rudy Giulianis information about joe biden and other matters. He said that volker told giuliani that source was not credible. So those are among some of the headlines and there were a lot more details to learn about this unfolding daylong testimony marathon that happened behind closed doors. Manu, thank you very much. I want to go out to democratic congressman Jerry Connolly and he attended kurt volkers deposition today. A nine and a halfhour marathon, congressman. What did you learn . I wasnt there for the whole nine and a half hours, unfortunately. Poor mr. Ambassador volker was. I let me start by saying what i learn side this ambassador who was very forthcoming essentially corroborated the essential facts of the whistleblower complaint, and that was a very important piece of testimony to hear. And when you say corroborated the fact, you know, were you able to to ascertain that the president had explicitly linked aid to biden investigation and perhaps that had even happened before the phone call over the summer, obviously . I would say that the that the ambassador was careful with his word, but he admitted that he was never provided and he had the title special envoy envoy to ukraine. He was never provided with any explanation for this sudden, mysterious suspension of as much as 400 million worth of military aid that ukraine desperately needed to be able to defend itself thats occurring as we speak, and i think that was very important corroboration that clearly something was afoot and there had been a planned trip and an invitation to the new president of the ukraine to come to washington to meet with trump. That also was put as manu just said on ice until and unless the Ukrainian Government cooperated in digging up dirt on a political opponent of trump. And so this text which he provided which started with the other top u. S. Diplomat with ukraine, i think it is ridiculo crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a political campaign. Did he give you any color on that . His opinion on that . He confirmed that text, and i think also confirmed that this was a point of prikz with the new Ukrainian Government, but you have to remember it was an unknown quantity and quality. We didnt really know what zelensky was going to be like or what his policies were because hed never been in public light before so it was in our interest to establish early on positive relationships and instead, we suspend military aid. We suspend the invitation to come early to washington to meet with the president and we basically put a demand on him that they call crazy. I call that extortion which is not only wrong and an abuse of office, but a krim. He knew it was suspended, but youre saying he never explicitly was. Why . He told us he was in the dark and no one ever explained to him why he did it and he was at a loss to try to e plaxplain it ts ukrainian counterparts. You say you learned a lot and he provided the crucial text and there was a suspension and you dont know what it was. Youre clear with that. Thats right. Republicans are saying this and they had said this long before he had concluded and here is jim jordan and lee zeldin. Not one thing he said comports with the narrative. The administration is in an each stronger place as a product of ambassador volker coming to testify. Did you hear anything did you hear what they heard . You guys were all in the same room. I can only say the power of rationalization and the power of delusion to hold sway here in washington in certain quarters. I dont think any rational person listening to that testimony today could remotely come to the conclusion those two gentlemen came to. Before we go, one last question, trump publicly asked the chinese president with whom he is engaged in a massive trade war to investigate joe biden today. We have now learned that in a phone call in june with president xi the president raised joe biden although we do not understand with a direction request for an investigation. That call was also housed on the same top secret server that the ukraine call was housed on. What do you make of that . I think this is further evidence that gives a lie to what you just heard from those two gentlemen, my colleagues and from the president himself. So when he says there was no quid pro quo, what he really means by projection there was a quid pro quo. When he says theres no collusion, he means theres collusion, and now we have the evidence. Remember, we were debating not long ago was there collusion with russia. Now we know there was not only collusion with russia. There was attempted collusion with ukraine and attempted collusion with china and this is what we know about and this is deeply, deeply troubling that the president would use the apparatus of our foreign diplomacy for narrow partisan political ends. Where does that end . That is not tolerate in a democracy. I appreciate your time tonight. Vice president peps all in for his request to investigate biden. 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We are reporting that two top envoys to President Trump, the ambassador to the European Union and kurt volker drafted a statement in august with the help of Rudy Giuliani that committed ukraine to basically doing the investigations that trump wanted, investigating hunter biden and that ukraine had interfered in the 2016 election ask debunked the Conspiracy Theory that Rudy Giuliani and the president continue to push. Its more evidence of the degree to which Top Administration officials were bending and frankly warping American Foreign policy to carry out the political directives, the interests, the political interests of the president by drafting a statement for a foreign power. They drafted the statement. The s