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Point. robert, thank you very much for all of that. >> thanks for having me. >> coming up, president trump is set to meet with the ukrainian president tomorrow. so just who is vladimir zelinsky? that story after this. zelinsky that story after this. if they're talking about you... you must be doing something right. experience the style, craftsmanship, and technology that have made the rx the leading luxury suv of all time. lease the 2019 rx 350 for $399 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. panera's new warm grain full of flavor, color,. full of- woo! full of good. so...

Perspective. he's been promising to do for a while which barack obama never did, so come over to ukraine and figure this out. somebody needs to come over there and actually understand why it's important to fund the $140 million, that's the important part. >> carol, you've done a lot of reporting on this. 1 thing i think is interesting is the role giuliani has played and the state department in all of this. there's a little question in my mind and i wonder you can clarify what you know about the role the state department has been. giuliani basically said i wept over there because the state depa...

He can command people, and that's why he's really hoping to be in a room with donald trump. we think if donald trump and this president zelinsky who again you mentioned he was very quickly into politics. as of six months ago nobody in the entire province had even seen electioneering there, there was no campaign going on. again, when he gets in a room whether it's the ukrainian president he commands and we hope that fact -- >> to what end? to tell him to not, you know, twist his arm to open up an investigation into the former vice president's son? >> well, that's not -- i don't see donald trump...

Who follow the press in ukraine, and i don't read ukrainian or russian. but the daily beast reported likely to reopen the probe of hunter biden's firm? >> one unquoted member of parliament who has no problem at all said we'd be glad -- not just speculative but put me in charge of it. then another follow-up with another member of the government, not really in the inner circle at all. sometimes those headlines from the daily beast just causing a little more -- >> you don't think there's been an official decision taken by zelinsky. you know what i mean, if his whole thing is i'm a reformer and i'...

Zelingsky had been sworn in after a reswroupding election victory with concerns that rudy giuliani had begun to pressure zelinsky and his team to launch these investigations into vice president biden. and zelinsky has never had elective office before did want understand whether these were official requests from a u.s. government or whether they were requests he should ignore. and so part of the reason why i eventually made the reason to go and see for myself was because i thought it was important for somebody from the united states congress to raise with him the concern about the damage that c...