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Doors, blunt reserve lakeses from kurt volker. special envoy to ukraine. one exchange volker told lawmakers there was no individually to trump's biden allegation. from the transcript, question, you did not believe there was any validity to the two allegations? volker, i did not. question, called them earlier yet that's what president trump wanted zelensky to commit to investigating before he could get volker. right. question, a visit to the white house. cnn's lauren fox with me now with more on what she is gleaning from these transcripts. lauren, what's yujumping out at ought? >> one talking p...

>> not just amateur hour for kurt volker but all the way up to the president. seems completely fixated trying to show russia did not hand him the 2016 election and so he's buying into this ukrainian stuff and then pompeo is also letting it go down. even though earlier as cia chief he suggested there had been russian interference in the 2016 election. we just get, like, the idea that there are a lot of different pots on the fire in this administration, but nobody is actually watching the stove. >> hmm. which is a problem. which is a problem. gloria, volker told zelensky about the quote/unquote ...

Surprised and troubled that the president was trying to push for investigations into his political rivals that as you read he didn't believe there was any have a lvalidity to those a and also said he was concerned about rudy giuliani's role and what it would do to the u.s. relationship between the u.s. and ukraine. in part because of bipartisan support on capitol hill to give ukraine the aid and belief from the ukrainians if they got involved in u.s. politics it could damage their relationship with the u.s. a few highlights from volker's testimony. of course, we're still going through what a s...

Anti-corruption statement we discussed for weeks. that was about biden and burisma, and, of course, that statement never occurred and ambassador volker told them to drop it, because he thut ought was ridiculous. but the clear here the ukrainians knew there was a quid pro quo. and that they were being asked to do something they felt very uncomfortable doing, because they didn't want to get involved in domestic politics over in this country, and, also, they thought it had been investigated at one point and it was ridiculous. >> melissa, why does this point on, yes, there was a quid pro quo, yes,...

Had already appropriated money, and rudy giuliani was somebody who was representing the president, himself, who knows what. never wanted to be secretary of state at one point. never became secretary of state, but was certainly acting as secretary of state here. and these were people -- i want to be a little bit more positive towards volker. i think they were trying to figure out a way to work around giuliani. i think volker wanted to do the right thing but not quite sure how to do it so he played along a little bit with giuliani trying to kind of figure out what he could get out of giuliani th...