former clinton officials request a meeting with state department undersecretary. email communications between the firm and state department noted hunter biden is a burisma board member and they wanted to convince the obama administration that it hadn't engaged in corruption and wants to change the view of the company in washington. in march 2016 the former vice president threatened to hold back $1 billion in aid if the ukrainian president doesn't fire the prosecutor accusing him of corruption. biden recounted the conversation years later. >> i said -- it was 6 hours, in 6 hours, the prosecutors not fired you are not getting the money. >> hunter and his father deny any wrongdoing in ukraine but it is a dogfight on the campaign trail. congressman mark walker of north