Meaning the letter revealing the call. That was done at the insistence of myself and other people that read it. It was a friendly letter, there was no pressure. The way you have it built up, that kolb was going to be the call from hell. Part of the problems you have the fake news, a lot of corrupt reporting. Harris democrats are the transcript shows an abuse of power. And they are demanding the whistleblowers full complaint. Chief intelligent correspondent catherine herridges life for us at the Justice Department. Catherine . Thank you, harris, and good afternoon. Based on this transcript, you can see mine is heavily marked up. This was a 30 minute phone call and about 10 minutes into the phone call President Trump has two asks of the ukrainian president. The first appears to be related to 2016 and a cybersecurity and hacking. Its a request to look into joe biden and his son. It reads, i would like you to do us a favor. Theres a lot of talk about joe bidens son. That biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. So whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. Biden went about breaking that he stopped the prosecution. So if you can look into that, it sounds horrible to me. Then the president zelensky replied about his own attorney general, who would soon be appointed. He or she will look into the situation, specifically to the company. That is hundred bidens company. They mentioned this issue. The investigation of the case is actually the issue to restore the honesty. We will take care of at her work on the investigation of the case. The call continues, i will have juliana give you a call, and im also going to have attorney have attorney general barr call and youll get to the bottom of it. Im sure youll figure it out. Based on our account during the course of this conversation, the president uses the name of Rudy Giuliani and the attorney general eight times. The Justice Department has been very firm today, telling reporters that attorney general barr did not learn of the existence of the call until several weeks after the fact. He was never asked by the president to investigate joe biden or his son and he was never asked by the president to call the ukraine. What we also learned today is that the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community this is the internal watchdog for the Intelligence Community look at the information in the call and information from the whistleblower and said this may fit a possible violation of Campaign Finance laws. That may make you think, well, how is that . In simple terms, to the president s request amount to a thing of value because it related to a possible opponent in the 2020 election . And the Justice Department put out a statement that reads, relying on established procedures set forth in the justice manual, the departments Criminal Division reviewed the official record of the call and determined based on the facts and applicable law that there was no Campaign Finance violation. No further action is warranted. All relevant opponents agreed with the legal conclusion on the deferment has concluded the matter. To just give you some context, harris, what we are told is that the process took several weeks and only concluded about a week ago. It was not something that happened just in a matter of days. Harris great information, catching us up. Thank you very much. Lets keep this going now. President trump is going after Speaker Pelosis impeachment investigation, saying, there has been no president in the history of our country who has been treated as badly as i have. Lets bring chief White House Correspondent john roberts with more from the fox news room in new york. John . Harris, good afternoon. President trump believes this transcript released today by the white house completely exonerates him, proving that there was no monetary quid pro quo, at the very least. In exchange for some sort of investigation of joe and hunter biden being launched. And that the president did not pressure zelensky into launching such an investigation, that we do know that he suggested that zelensky should talk with Rudy Giuliani and the attorney general, bill barr. It is interesting to note just how far we are today from where you were yesterday. Yesterday the story leading all the newscasts was this idea that the president may have put on hold 400 million in military aid for ukraine in exchange for an investigation of joe biden and his son. There was no mention of that in the transcript. Zelensky did bring up the idea of buying javelin missiles. Lucas tomlinson, over the pentagon for fox news, says those javelin missiles were not included in the 250 million in lethal military aid that the president put on hold. All of that, though, did not seem to matter much the democrats. Listen to what adam schiff said a short time ago. The president of ukraine brought up his countrys need for military assistance. Immediately thereafter, the president of the United States said, i have a favor i want to ask of you. Im not concerned whether its a quid pro quo or not. Ukraine understood with this president wanted. He made it abundantly clear. He made it redundantly clear. He had his emissaries making it clear. And ukraine knew what it needed to do if it wanted to get military assistance. The release of the transcript did nothing to slow the Freight Train of impeachment that the democrats have now jumped on. Nancy pelosi saying this morning that she had not seen the transcript, but is happy to weigh in on it. Listen here. The fact is that the president of the United States, in breach of his constitutional responsibility, has asked a Foreign Government to help him in his Political Campaign at the expense of our National Security as well as undermining the integrity of our elections. I cannot stand. He will be held accountable. No one is above the law. 2 00 this afternoon, the president got that bilateral meeting with president zelensky. Hes got a press conference afterwards. A lot of this is a lot about crowd strike and what influence that might have had on the 2016 election. I think its a fair question to bring up at the press conference this afternoon, why the president is still asking ukraine about crowd strike and why he would ask ukraine to start investigating hunter biden. Those are probably a couple of things that we will bring up later this afternoon when the president has a press conference. 4 00 this afternoon. Harris itll be interesting to see what they ask the ukrainian president zelensky about that phone call, as well. If they get an opportunity to ask that. John roberts, thank you very much. I want to bring a new york republican congressman pete king of the House Homeland Security committee. Great see you today. I want to start with this National Security question, you for the speaker talking about. This is a matter of National Security. Have you had the opportunity to read the transcript . Oh, yes, absolutely. Harris its only pages long. That portion of the conversation, that you can highlight, you hear Rudy Giulianis name probably mention more than anyone else. As you look at this, are you seeing that claim, that serious claim by pelosi and others, that this was a matter of National Security . There is nothing involving National Security and theres nothing thats even remotely impeachable. You mentioned Rudy Giulianis name. Rudy giulianis name is brought up by the president of ukraine, not President Trump. President trump is talking about the investigation by the Justice Department into the genesis of the 2016 election investigation, which has nothing to do with the current situation. This is an investigation into why the old mueller investigation, the fbi investigation, started back in 2016. There was information leaked from the ukraine against candidate trump at the time. Theres also the issue of the hacking. But add nothing to do with President Trump. That was 2016. In answer to that question, the president of ukraine brought a prudent giulianis name. And then President Trump he was prompted to talk about the allegations made about joe biden. To me, whether or not it will be a component of the campaign is almost secondary. The allegations would possibly love the questions being raised about him and the issue of ukrainian corruption, the president has an obligation to raise that issue. Ive nothing against joe biden, let me make that clear. His it was very legitimate question to ask. Harris i want to be this to everyone from the transcript. Theres a lot of talk about bidens son, that he stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. Whatever you do with the attorney general would be great. He asks that he talks, zelensky, with the ag, william barr, and also Rudy Giuliani. Biden went around bragging that he saw the prosecution. If you can look into it, sounds horrible to me. He deftly talked about biden addressing any public official come with the running for president to give the current one are not, is to have that looked into. I want to give you the last couple seconds on that and then we will move on. Absolutely. To me this is a legitimate question being asked by the president. He didnt dwell on it other than those few sentences. It wasnt the beginning or the end of the conversation, and it was the president of ukraine that brought up giulianis name. He was concerned about the biden issue. Thats what proctor the president. As far as the attorney general, to me this is a flowing conversation. It started off with the attorney general looking into the 2016 allegations and went on to biden and they came to give up your looking at the full picture, the president never asked the attorney general at all to get involved with the joe biden investigation. Also, be clear, the Trump Administration gave military aid to ukraine and president obama didnt give anything. Harris lets move on. Meanwhile, Washington Post this is going after what he called the democrat double standard all this. He pointed to a cnn report in may that three Democratic Senators wrote a letter to ukraines prosecutor general urging them not to close four investigations they said are critical to the mueller probe. Once in response to the news today . To me it shows the total hypocrisy of the democrats on this issue. They thought it was perfectly appropriate to intervene and in fact threaten the Ukrainian Government when it came to helping the mueller investigation, which would hurt President Trump. But now somehow its wrong for the president to ask questions about joe biden. This shows me the hypocrisy of the democrats. Very prominent, highranking Democratic Senators, in effect threatening the Ukrainian Government if they didnt keep these investigations open. To keep them open to help the mueller investigation. Obviously they turned up nothing on on the president involving russia, and the democrats couldnt let it go. Harris congressman peter king of the great state of new york, thank you for being on our program. Now that President Trump has released the transcript of his july phone call with the president of ukraine, the rnc is calling on joe biden to do the same and release his phone call to ukrainian and chinese leaders from when he was Vice President. Theres a reason for the china part. We will get into it. Rnc chairwoman Ronna Mcdaniel is here with me to weigh in. And our Democratic Leaders jumpg the gun on impeachment . While some moderate democrats say they are not on board. They are moving too fast on this. Orlando isnt just the theme park capital of the world, it also has the highest growth in manufacturing jobs in the us. Its a competition for the talent. Employees need more than just a paycheck. You definitely want to take advantage of all the benefits you can get. 2 3 of employees said that the workplace is an important source for personal savings and protection solutions. The workplace should be a source of financial security. Keeping your people happy is what keeps your people. 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Im concerned about going to mean impeachment because, as ive also stated before, it could split the country apart. At this point in time i do not support impeachment. Harris some Democratic Senators also are being cautious, including montana jon tester, who said, i think its important we find out what transpired. Talk about the impeachment all you want, means to get facts. I want to bring it democratic harassment from california, Eric Swalwell. He sits on the house intelligence and Judiciary Committees. Good to see you today. Lets start with what you are telling our colleagues, who are critical of the move to move toward impeachment inquiry. They say you are days too soon on this. 212 democrats and a former republican in justin amash support having this inquiry. I will tell them we cant wait. Theres an urgency here. I understand you have concerns about the mueller investigation, that that was the 2016 election. It was in the past. Well, this this is the 2020 upg election, and the president has made it very clear in his own words in the notes that he put out that he wants another country to help him. We just dont do that in america. Harris you know what . Lets visit on what congressman pete king of new york just told me a few moments before the commercial break. He said improprieties were suspected bite joe bidens son, hunter biden. Had it been any other official, you would want to have it looked into. So he argues that the fact of the matter is it wouldnt have mattered if this were joe biden or somebody else. And that it doesnt matter that this was the president s direct political opponent this year. So im looking at your twitter and you say you dont need explicit quid pro quo to betray the country. We will get to the bottom of the president s conduct. Are you on the same page, that maybe thats not exactly what happened anyway . There is no evidence there was any impropriety with biden. The president of the United States should not be involved in that. Thats why we have a Law Enforcement harris how do you know there was no evidence . Joe biden hasnt talked about it. He just wants the fingers pointed at his opponents. Okay. Harris, there is no evidence. The ukrainians have said there is no evidence. Multiple Media Outlets have said there is no evidence. But if you want to show me evidence, im open minded. Lets get to by the president would be the person doing this. He had no business involving himself in a criminal case against his rival. We just dont do that in america. Its so gross to read that transcript. Honestly, harris, one of my favorites done my first thoughts was, jeez, what the hell does the putin transcript read like . What does he say to putin if he talks like this ukraine . Nobody thinks of putin, what has he given away