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Ukraine. newly sworn in to office. august 12, the whistle-blower involved here files a complaint a couple weeks after the call. august 21, "the new york times" reports guliani is pushing to get ukraine to investigate biden. politco then reports the white house is slow-walking $250 million in aid to ukraine. that money was released on september 12. so the president today said in the oval office just like with justice kavanaugh, the media is going to wind up looking foolish. >> you've had a very bad week and this will be better than all of them. this is another one. keep playing it up because yo...

Ukraine. newly sworn in to office. august 12, the whistle-blower involved here files a complaint a couple weeks after the call. august 21, "the new york times" reports guliani is pushing to get ukraine to investigate biden. politco then reports the white house is slow-walking $250 million in aid to ukraine. that money was released on september 12. so the president today said in the oval office just like with justice kavanaugh, the media is going to wind up looking foolish. >> you've had a very bad week and this will be better than all of them. this is another one. keep playing it up because yo...

And so that's one of the things that questions of being raised about the timing of this. you know that the president spoke to the president of ukraine in late july. and this whistle blower comes forward on august 12. again the timing here is a very big concern and one of the reasons why there's so many questions that remain. >> evan, i've got another question for you. rudy giuliani on cnn a short time ago. what did he say about the president speaking with ukraine's president? >> that's right. one of the big questions that remains is exactly what went on in that conversation. we know there was ...

It was that really raised concerns for this whistle blower to come forward to the inspector general had to do with communication. some events that had to do with ukraine. and part appeared to be communication involving the president. at this point we don't know a lot of great detail about exactly the details of what exactly raised these concerns. what did the president say. what were these communications that were going on with this foreign leader. we now know that at least it had to do with ukraine. and we know that we know that the trump administration has been holding up until recently abou...

It's in the president's interest to put the transcript of the call out and show there was no quid pro quo." here's the timing, may 9th, "new york times" reports rudy giuliani is traveling to ukraine to push for a biden probe. the president says he would listen if a foreign government offered political dirt. fast-forward to july 25th, the president has that call with the ukrainian president. august 12, whistle-blower the federal government files a complaint saying he or she heard something that might threaten national security. august 21st, "the times" says rudy giuliani is pushing again to get...