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Well, one of the whole issues here was he was running a shadow foreign policy, not for the benefit of the american people. and he just told us that in so many words. he goes everything i did was really just to benefit my client personally. >> he's admitted it all. and with the president saying there's no quid pro quo because the ukrainians had no idea what was being discussed and this was about withholding money for 2016 investigations or joe biden. now we know that's been debunked as well because the ukrainians knew from reporting yesterday as early as august that they were being denied this ...

Two weeks before he even took office, way back on may 7th, ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, and his team knew their relationship with the u.s. could be at stake if they didn't publicly launch an investigation of burisma. burisma is the ukrainian company that had joe biden's son on its board. well, that's according to a source who tells cnn that zelensky and his team specifically mentioned feeling pressure to open so-called corruption investigations. let's remember, though, there's no evidence of wrongdoing by the bidens in ukraine, okay? there's more. we're also learning more about wha...

Corruption was discussed. but we don't know much more according to your reporting, zelensky already had met and knew that when the president -- or i guess when the president talked about corruption, what giuliani and the president wanted was an investigation of biden, whether he instantly links that with corruption or not, we know he was already aware of what the president really wanted. >> reporter: yeah. i mean by the time that zelensky called this may 7th meeting where he was trying to figure out how do i deal with the pressure from the trump administration, he clearly knew one very clear i...

That is done during the call. is that -- >> absolutely so we don't know verbatim exactly what was touched on in this call. we just know that on april 21st when zelensky won as president of ukraine the president according to the white house made a congratulatory call. and we know the issue of corruption was discussed. but we don't know much more beyond that. >> but according to your reporting zelensky already had met and knew that when the president -- or i guess when the president talked about corruption what giuliani and the president wanted was an investigation of biden. whether he -- instan...

You know that whole idea they didn't feel pressure? well, that's not necessarily so according to these reports. two weeks before he even took office, way back on may 7th, ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, and his team knew their relationship with the u.s. could be at stake if they didn't publicly launch an investigation of burisma. burisma is the ukrainian company that had joe biden's son on its board. well, that's according to a source who tells cnn that zelensky and his team specifically mentioned feeling pressure to open so-called corruption investigations. let's remember, though, th...