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Donald trump. well, democrats, the case they are making now is that there is an issue with the ukraine and that is the issue that donald trump is making with biden. it is hard to see him bringing this up without having it thrown back in his face. that's going to make some democrats wonder if he really is the right guy for the job. >> yeah, i agree with kim. i don't see how you can get to donald trump on ukraine without constantly bringing up hunter biden. common sense, what were the cain ukrainians -- what were the ukrainians buying? he had no experience on energy. paul: he's buying influence....

Paul: he's buying influence. >> the polls have gone up in terms of support of impeachment. nadler said about a year ago that before we could impeach, we would need to have the american people, even trump voters -- paul: right. >> that's not happened. most of the support has 79% of democrats supporting peach now -- supporting impeachment now but only 12 1/2% of republicans and i think independents are slightly in favor of nonimpeaching but very slight, sort of evenly divided. paul: pelosi is moving very fast. they want to get this done, probably have a vote on the floor -- that's whether to imp...

It. they are paying his son six times as much money to be on the board. they were buying influence with the vice president, joe biden, and biden hasn't supposedly explained it. >> harris: the vice president moments ago, mike pence that his predecessor had a son on an energy board of the company without the resume, i'm paraphrasing a little bit, while his dad was leading conversations with ukraine. it's about time they be looked at. leslie, i will give you a last word. >> again, look at it. let them look at it. >> harris: let them look at it? an investigation would be fine? >> i have no problem...

Speaking to npr, he said there are certainly concerns about the chinese having full access to the region. you can imagine a situation where they would develop intelligence capabilities, intelligence gathering capabilities, and of course, they could potentially one day have a naval base or chinese military base. if the chinese and its government controlled businesses are spending tens of billions of dollars on the so-called belt and road project, building pipelines, and the rest, all around the globe. they've invested heavily in latin america, buying influence, moves that worry the united state...

On this and calling for a review of that sequence of events. senator sherrod brown of ohio. thanks for being here. >> good to be back. thanks, rachel. >> so you're one of the senators who's written a letter to the treasury asking for a review of this deal, asking the committee on foreign investment in the united states to review this. what are your concerns about it? >> well, yeah. i -- whenever the russians or -- particularly the russians and chinese make major investments in this country, we strengthened a law a year ago, bipartisan, overwhelming vote, to make sure that we look at these inve...