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Alexkor in Corruption Probe over Alleged Links to Gupta Family January 10, 21 by John Jeffay (IDEX Online) - South Africa's state-owned diamond company is under investigation in an inquiry into systemic political corruption. It focuses on alleged links between Alexkor a nd members of the super-wealthy Gupta family, who were close to former president Jacob Zuma, now live in Dubai, a nd who have been described by the US Treasury as "members of a significant corruption network". One of the central allegations is that Gupta entities benefited from "state capture" at Alexkor  -  that's to say ...

And his characterization of the ukraine policy. >> we were very clear. we wanted to make sure that the corruption that had been existing in ukraine for a very long time was reduced. then this president wanted to make sure too that vladimir putin wouldn't be able to inflict hardship on the people of ukraine. so we provided defensive weapons to the people of ukraine. the previous administration chose not to do that. they chose to provide blankets. we gave them real weapons so they could fight against the russians. >> i don't even know where to start in fact checking that. as we know, the previ...

>> yeah. potentially. i mean, again, i think we should be careful to draw too close a conclusion but it tightens this web, puts more bricks in the wall of what democrats are trying to show in this impeachment inquiry. you've got mayor guiliani there talking to someone named rob who some of the reports speculated, we don't know, is one of his former legal partners, who if that is who it is is a lobbyist for turkey's government, number one. at the same time you've got him talking about the bidens and saying this might influence the 2020 election. well, that circumstantially suggests one of his m...

Father and the ukrainians, it's going to be explored now, by the republicans if nothing else. paul: on the merits, is this -- do you think this is unfair to biden. biden says look, i did nothing wrong, the president tasked me to go over there and make this point. i was trying to clean up corruption. i wasn't trying to interfere with the corruption probe. the prosecutor was a bad guy. we got rid of him. and sure, this is fine for me to do. i mean, so what's the problem? >> well, of course it's a conflict. i mean, i would like to present the notion, imagine if donald trump had got a prosecutor f...

Me. >> in other words, no pressure? paul: that was ukraine's president, vladimir zelensky, saying that nobody pushed him during the july 25th phone call at the center of the whistleblower complaint. let's bring in our panel, dan henninger, kim strassel and senior fellow jason riley. so we're going to get to the politics of all a this. but first, i want to address the merits o of issue and the case against donald trump here and start with the phone call to zelensky, the mention of biden, the request for corruption probe. was this an abuse of power? >> well, let's try to choose our words careful...