private conversation was not enough, that's an indication he wanted t eed the political bene from them. >> the investigation could benefit the president politically, because the announcement alone could be twitter fodder between now and the next election to smear a political rival. that's consistent with the findings. you know, president nixon attempted to corrupt elections and his agents broke into democratic party headquarters to get a leg up on the election. and then he tried to cover it up just as we've seen some obstruction here. even more concerning in this case president trump not only appears to have abused the power of his office to help his own re-election campaign, he used a foreign government to do his bidding and he used military aid as leverage to get the job done, now, this aid was approved by congress, it was appropriated on a bipartisan basis for ukraine