with the president of ukraine, spoke about a political rival, and asked for the initiation of a sham investigation into that political rival. that's putting the president's personal and political interests ahead of the interest of the united states, threatening our national security and compromising foreign policy objectives. this is something to me that's wholly unacceptable, raises it to a new standard and why i made that call this morning. >> there are so many things we learned about in the last few days about the fact that the president called a leader of another country to do his bidding on a political rival, which he has admitted, the fact that there may have been according to reporting in various newspapers some sort of quid pro quo without saying it, the idea that funding was congressionally approved to go to ukraine, the idea we might be fiddling with national security because there's a reason we're sending $400 million to ukraine, and the idea that the president