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Request for investigations to achieve president trump's domestic political goal. >> and just for a little bit more background, abby, he was -- he served as u.s. ambassador to ukraine from 2006 to 2009. he is deeply respected in diplomatic circles. he had retired. he was called back in to service because of -- after the marie yovanovitch was recalled and ousted from that position. >> and he was reluctant to do it. >> he was reluctant to do it as our reporting shows. >> but mike pompeo and kurt volker talked him into it, said they needed him, so, you know, it seems as though he will be from ever...

These are all the things that the president has unleashed. yoe i don't get a sense that he understands the magnitude of what he's done. >> senator bob menendez from the foreign relations committee, things very much, sir. breaking news about iran and rudy giuliani from julia ainsley in the newsroom. julia, talk to me about what you've learned about rudy giuliani representation of -- well, you should call him an expat iranian group, a controversial group long on the state department's terror list. >> that's right, andrea, the mek is a dissident group in iran. they're small but they have a larg...

Upcoming visit and outlining vision for the reboot of u.s.-ukraine relationship. include can, among other things, burisma and election meddling in investigation. it is the company that put joe biden's son hunter on the board. and deep reservations from a senior u.s. diplomat as he refers to hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial u.s. military aid to ukraine, being withheld at the time of these demands. quote, are we now saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations? the response to that text? call me. as in, let's quickly get this off the record....

Stand up and to provide apparently the political cover that my colleagues across the aisle feel they need senator graham and i are pretty much at the goal line on our proposal we're ready to move forward with it, background checks. the element is the part of it that we need the president to stand up to the nra and the gun lobby. >> our reporting shows, including reporting from you, that the holdup in the white house appears to be on the expansion of background checks and a paper record that would be included in that expansion there's forces inside the white house led by a former official, the ...

How seriously president trump is considering this possibility because he told reporters at the white house today that there were five people who wanted this job as national security adviser, and they were good and qualified people. so we don't know where he is right now, but this is something that is being discussed at the white house. >> is this more about secretary pompeo consolidating power within the president's inner circle, or would it be more about president trump's views of both jobs, especially given how he says he makes decisions? >> reporter: right. so we know that president trump l...