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Investigate without spending time investigating a debunked conspiracy theory? >> there is all kinds of corruption to investigate in the ukraine. >> this was something you thought without merit because this was part of an effort to fix the problem that giuliani was creating? >> i did not propose it. >> well, i think you said you were okay with it or your amended statement said we seemed to include it because if it would help to fix the giuliani problem. was that the thinking? >> that's correct. if it threads the needle between what is reasonable for the ukraine to do and if it re-sets the negat...

I may have done, but it was something that we had discussed as part of our meetings in kiev at that time. >> i yield to the chairman. >> sylvester, when you had this conversation and you urged ukrainians not to investigate or prosecute the former president poroshenko, their response was oh you mean like you're asking us to investigate the clintons and the bidens. that was their response? >> that's what i recall now from seeing ambassador taylor's testimony. yes. >> you didn't understand that at the time, but then at the time had you read the call record? >> no. >> now that you've read the call...

Concluding the reason for adding questions in the census about citizenship isn't what was arit tickulated. they have to rethink it and the lejiltimate goals were pursued. and that's like a large thing and if you have an authorities but the reason you're doing it has to do with your own self interest or abusing civil liberty then all bets arau in the sense that people are allowed to rise up and say you can't be president anymore. >> and that is directly to the intents they've made on behalf of the defenders, which is we condition foreign aid all the time. this is part of policy essentially. >> ...

He's the only president in decades to refuse to release his tax returns with the justice department involved in the effort to make sure they stay secret. and the only president to refuse to divest themselves from the business interests. i think even jimmy carter felt bound to do with his peanut farm. instead he's hyped his business around the white house. while republicans forked over more than $3 million at trump properties during the midterms and foreign governments routinely do business there. not only that, he's cozied up to dictators and autocrats. to combatting corruption is not exactly ...