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Investigate, quote/unquote corruption in exchange for a white house meeting. according to a person familiar with sondland's planned testimony it was a quid pro quo, but not a corrupt one. david, cynthia, paul back with me. david, this idea that this is how it works, you've covered a lot of international news and the way that it works. this is not how it works. >> no, no, and cynthia mentioned this earlier. you can have a legitimate quid pro quo in foreign policy. you send troops here. it's easier for you to do that and we'll replenish your supplies or we'll make a call to this other country on...

>> the president spoke about lack of european support. he spoke about corruption, and he tasks me to go and meet with the president of ukraine and carry our concerns about those issues, and anyone that looks at the president's transcript will see that the president was raising issues that were appropriate, that were genuine interests in the american people. >> that's vice president mike pence 2019. take a listen to a guy that looks a lot like him. governor mike pence, 2016. >> and y'all need to know out there, this is basic stuff. foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot partici...

>> did he get briefed by general kellogg? read the transcript in his briefing book and deliver that message whether overt or subtly to the ukrainian president knowing what he was doing? >> because the argument is that when vice president pence went to talk to the ukrainian president, zelensky, about corruption, quote/unquote corruption, by then zelensky had communicated with him by rudy giuliani through one of his top aides, by president trump in a prior phone call to the one we have the rough transcript to. zelensky knew by corruption they meant, the bidens. >> exactly. >> that's the argument...

Indiana afterwards, he does know better. i mean, you played the clip. he said so himself during his own vice president debate, that he knows better, but he also speaks fluent trump-ese, and he understands that the dna of the president as much as he needs to. to stay exactly where he has been for three and a half years which is first of all becoming the pick and second of all navigating the very, very choppy waters of the trump world. and, you know, he tries to engage when he feels it's beneficial and disengage when it's not. this is a situation where we don't know the answer to one of the key ...

Talking about corruption more broadly, you imagine the president of ukraine knows what he's talking about. pence is someone who likes to be in power. likes to be close to this president. knows that being close to this president means showing utter loyalty and that is what he's doing. i don't know if it pains him to do that. seems to do it with ease, at least today, speak trump fluently, turn back a week ago when president trump called him out, you should listen to mike pence's calls, too. that night he went on to say the transcript vindicated everything trump said. he might be in this up to hi...