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That's the question. and that brings us to you as part of this story because the question is why were you fired? from that position. i want to read a portion of the president's call on july 25th with president zelensky. and this is the painful part when you first heard about it. the former ambassador from the united states, the woman, was bad news. and the people she was dealing with in the ukraine were bad news. so i just want to let you know that. the other thing, he goes right into this, there's a lot of talk about biden's son that biden stopped the prosecution. and a lot of the people want...

Besmirched in a way that is droid of common decenc-- devoid of common decency. here's my message to you -- there is nothing, ambassador yovanovitch, nothing he can say or do, not a thing that will in any way diminish the nature and quality of the service you have rendered to our great nation. not a thing, and there's not a thing he can say or do that will diminish our gratitude to you for that service. i thank you again for it. >> thank you. thank you. >> so as to the larger point, i would like you to answer what does this mean to ukraine when the united states actually engages in the kind of ...

Conference, where he now infamously seemed to say the president engaged in trying to force a quid pro quo from ukraine the point of the conference was to talk about the trump dural announcement which is not something vulnerable republicans are thrilled about discussing. it's the kind of thing the trump administration has blamed the bidens for engaging in, and purely from a political perspective white house allies were very much knocked back on their heels that the administration was touting that decision that was quickly reversed. >> tim, is there a concern at this point that some of these rep...

Right, in the mueller report. in this case you have two things that stand out to me. one, the president -- and by the way, mcguire said that the transcript as released by the white house is, in his words, in alignment with the complaint. that's as far as he would go to say, in effect, this is credible, this complaint there. the central thing here is, is the president participating and encouraging such? not just accepting or turning a blind eye or denying, but actively engaging in, and in two ways. one, denying military aid. again, that's the allegation. two, denying meetings, and therefore hig...

The heritage foundation. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure, laura. laura: we're looking at an estimated two-thirds of the consumer goods that the u.s. imports from china which includes some clothes, shoes, sporting goods. what do you think, is this the right approach? >> i think it's a very dangerous approach, actually, and i think the last thing the u.s. economy needs right now is a trade war with china and large scale tariffs being applied on both sides. trade with china is worth $660 billion a year, and there's no doubt about it, i think, that a trade the war with china could tip the u....