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Soon, not going to be over easily, and that's been something they've talked about as the president has been here on the ground. >> phil matingly is at the royal castle. i'm told they worked hard, carefully in drafting this prepared speech for the president of the united states. he got involved himself obviously as well. you have the president of the united states who's there, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the president's national security adviser, all of them weighing in and making sure that this moment is critically important, a pivotal moment in what's going on in the war...

Doing. >> reporter: there's no shortage of examples of the horror that's taken place in the country. the president will meet with some of them tomorrow according to his schedule. >> phil, what else did the president say to those u.s. troops from the 82nd airborne division who are here in poland? what else did he say today? >> reporter: he seemed to riffing in was not a scripted speech. this biggest point he wanted to make was thanks and passing on his gratitude. this isn't just about ukraine. u.s. and its allies are doing

Biden. phil matingly is out front. >> mr. president. >> reporter: as evidence mounts that the trump administration dwruzing foreign aids to ukraine as a political weapon, one gop senator's name has repeatedly popped up. ron johnson. it's an interesting twist for the wisconsin republican who is a close ally of president trump but the chair of a panel that overseas europe and vice chair of the senate ukraine caucus. he's a strong proponent of u.s. aide and assistance to ukraine. he signed onto a 2016 letter urging then ukraine president to press ahead with forms to battle corruption. the same re...

Set off the impeachment inquiry. zpl these are people who gave the whistleblower the knowledge. >> now u the president has said publicly there was no quid pro quo and wolf, this testimony makes clear that's what the president was saying privately, too, but he was also privately saying he wanted the ukrainian president to be in a public box. he wanted him out there making public statements that he was going to pursue these investigations that would have helped trump politically and only then was the president willing to move forward with this financial assistance. >> they were squeezing him to ...

That he would support it would not be surprised if that was part of the give and take that he had in the conversation with the president or with somebody at the white house. because senator mcconnell has been very, very clear, not just privately with the president, but publicly, that a national emergency is a terrible idea. but from the president's perspective, he's getting a terrible deal, a deal that the democrats did pretty well on and he didn't, after all of this time. so, it's a give and take that it seems finally that mitch mcconnell is in the middle of and capitulating on, because this ...