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And they say we hear you asking for political favor from the ukrainians that was going to benefit you personally back in the united states and we know that's illegal in the united states. so you can have -- you can be compromised in the course of these discussions. eric: the president would say vladimir, buzz off, no, i'm -- saying what he's saying now, he's going to say i was interested in corruption i, wanted to know what happened to joe biden and his son even though the ukrainian prosecutor said they didn't break ukrainian law. >> he has said that. look, ukraine has a corruption problem and...

Wants to drain the swamp, referencing the prosecutor who was fired because joe biden, who bragged on national television that he got him fired when they were investigating hunter biden -- >> that's not true. he got them fired, but not when he was investigating. the whole case against hunter biden have been settled. hunter biden had been cleared. to this day there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by hunter biden or joe biden. what you said is true, that joe biden, in cooperation with all of our allies, say that there's a corruption problem in ukraine. this guys at the center, and we need them o...

There was no pressure. >> reporter: tonight, republicans are defending the president. >> i think it's very appropriate for the president of the united states suggests that you've got a corruption problem. from my point of view to impeach any president over a phone call like this would be insane. >> reporter: now the president facing the prospect of impeachment over a call he made the day after special counsel robert mueller testified. >> i thought we won. i thought it was dead. it was dead. the mueller report, no obstruction, no collusion. >> reporter: lester, members of the house and senate i...

At. i think it is very appropriate for the president of the united states to suggest you have a corruption problem. >> you're talking about impeaching a sitting president that they have no crime for. >> at this stage no one knows whether this probe had lead to any charges or convictions. impeachment is a congressional decision. it does not require the trigger of a crime. these new documents show the trump officials have been involved in things that as our experts have been saying, could raise criminal exposure. we have a legal expert as well as a republican insider to get into it. when we're b...

He says favor, he asks him to work with attorney general barr going forward on looking into getting dirt about joe biden. >> i hope we will, i hope we will look at the corruption problem in the ukraine. i think the president pointed out in the firing of the prosecutor, maybe he deserved to be fired. maybe he was corrupt. i don't know. but an obvious conflict of interest. joe biden is a very good friend, but we can't have a country where one side looks at and the other one does not. here is the point. when vice president biden called for the prosecutor to be fired, and we will cut off all aid, ...