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Trump expressed his -- according to a person familiar with the matter advisers suggested that trump raise the broad issue of corruption in his first call with zelensky, but trump chose not to. peter, it seems to me that the president wasn't all that interested in corruption because even though his staff said do it, he didn't even want to talk about it with zelensky. >> yes, exactly. we had these two documents put out by the white house now, two different versions in effect of the same call. one of which this looks like perfectly ordinary pleasanttries, you did a great job and the other he rais...

At your place. it's the best hotel. so this is going on and on. the question is what is anyone going to do about it? congress needs to look at this seriously as an article of impeachment. >> surely they will. therein is another irony. as the president is under the biggest spotlight of his presidency with all of these -- the impeachment inquiry happening in three communities. he's not shying away from provoking investigators. i mean, this is just exhibit a. >> between this and syria, i mean, he is clearly just saying i don't care. i dare you, right? i dare you to two against me. saying this mig...

And here is why. here is one reason. you talk about the president's new focus on corruption. let's just go back and look at timeline. this president approved money, military aid to ukraine at the end of 2017 with no strings attached and in that announcement. it wasn't oh, if you get rid of corruption we'll do the following and give you this amount of money. congress then approved it. then you have elections in ukraine in may. in may. so you have a new president come in. joe biden announces that he's running for president of the united states in april. come may all of a sudden rudy giuliani fin...

Chris collins. >> so, yeah. look, many of these things are unconducted. chris collins is a -- >> they all lied to the fbi. >> a different matter. it's not connected to this other set of problems donald trump has. >> but just being untethered, disrespectful and disdainful of fed riddle law enforcement. it's hard to find five people in the last 15 months who lie to the fbi. and frankly they're all unrelated -- >> i've never tried. i'm not sure. >> i'm amazed you think it's only going to be five. [ laughter ] >> remember, susan -- on the over/under, that seems definitely under. >> these are all t...

Observers were saying it was free and fair, that the ukrainian state has now been re-established and the president electricity represents all ukrainians and we ought to support him. that's the big imperative now for the obama administration. president obama called him this morning getting support to them, making sure the economic aid pledged by the united states, european union, imf, actually gets there to make a difference as he tries to re-establish the credibility of the ukrainian state particularly in the eastern part of the country. >> we should point out that this is the third go-round a...