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Ukraine. pressured the ukraine, i will not give you money unless you sack the prosecutor. biden has been open about this pressure effort. he's tauted it as his own anti-corruption work. listen to what he said at an event to 2018. >> i'm desperately concerned about the backsliding on the part of kiev in terms of corruption. i went over the 12th, 13th time to kiev, and i was supposed to announce there was another billion dollar loan guarantee, i had gotten a commitment from them that they would take action against the state prosecutor and they didn't. we're walking out of the press conference, i...

Prosecutor to be fired. here is biden recounting the time he threatened to withhold a billion dollars in american loan guarantees if ukraine did not take action. >> i went over, i guess the 12th, 13th time to eyef aand i supposed to announce there was another billion dollars loan guarantee. and i got word that they would take action against the state prosecutor and they didn't. so they said they were walking out the press conference i said, no, i'm not going to -- we're not going to give you the billion dollars. they said, you have no authority, you're not the president. they said the presiden...

It was beyond an offer. it was something where he said i'm not going to give billions of dollars to ukraine unless they remove this prosecutor. >> that was the president of the united states speaking about politics in front of the u.s. coast guard. the president is referring to the call that he was referring to was biden's role in a cra crackdown on corruption in ukraine, including calling for the removal of ukraine's general prosecutor who at the time was also nfgt r investigating a natural gas company. the they viewed that prosecutor as a hindrance to anticorruption and biden was many diplom...

President trump. take a listen. >> here's what i know. i know trump -- the investigation. he's violated every basic -- judge jeanine: but here's tough guy biden from about a year and a half ago bragging about ordering ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor who happened to be investigating a company on which biden's son served as a board member. >> i went over, i guess, the 12th, 13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that there's another billion dollar loan guarantee. and i had gotten a commitment from po por poroshenko that thed take action against the prosecutor and they didn't....

Iranian officials to blasting president trump. take a listen. >> here's what i know. i know trump -- the investigation. he's violated every basic -- judge jeanine: but here's tough guy biden from about a year and a half ago bragging about ordering ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor who happened to be investigating a company on which biden's son served as a board member. >> i went over, i guess, the 12th, 13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that there's another billion dollar loan guarantee. and i had gotten a commitment from po por poroshenko that thed take action against t...