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>> that's good spot to leave it. thank you so much, larry pfeiffer, for helping us sift through that. we want to talk about, just a few hours ago president trump will be meeting face-to-face with the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky. nbc news correspondent erin mclaughlin is in ukraine. i'm also joined by senior editor ryan heath. now that the memo has been released, how difficult of a position to say this put the ukrainian president in? >> president zelensky finds himself in an extremely difficult position, craig, compounded by the release of this memo, due in part because of the way...

Us a favor because the country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about that. immediately before is president zelensky who starts to talk about, on page two at the bottom, starts to talk about defense specifically. >> the whole structure of the call is the president of the ukraine requesting support from the united states of america. specifically zelensky mentions they want more support in terms of sanctioning russia, more funding for ukraine. on the bottom of page two of the transcript zelensky says we're prepared to buy defensive systems from the united states, we're prepared to ...

Zelensky is going to come out. and then, of course, as you say, the transcript, if you read it, is maybe 50% of the call. there are el lip sis in the transcript. there's much more color and nuance that make it a lot worse. as matt says, boy, if they thought this was the way to staunch the blood, what underlies it and what will come out next. >> do we know, harry, why there seems to be this narrow focus on campaign finance reform violation? >> yeah. well, that was just what the referral was. intelligence officials happened to see this. the conversation is the 25th. around mid august intelligenc...

Kiev? oh, good, we do. erin, to this transcript here for moment, president trump is asking president zelensky to talk to rudy giuliani about affairs there in the ukraine. the attorney general, bill barr, about affairs there in ukraine. he's not asking president zelensky to talk to, let's say, the ambassador or the secretary of state or his national security head. what do we know about rudy giuliani's connection to ukraine? >> we know at this point, craig, that rudy giuliani did make contact with officials here in kiev. but i think at this point the key question here in ukraine is did they act ...