both occurred without ukraine investigating president trump's political rival. the 18-page staff memo obtained by fox also notes president trump's deep-seated, genuine, and reasonable skepticism of ukraine and u.s. tax-payer funded aid of corruption. he also notes the skips as an overall but u.s. foreign aid and the need for allies to do more. a key house democrat is also questioning the g.o.p. defense. >> we need to get to the facts, but i think saying something that is not true as a part of the defense is not going to be helpful. it is clear the ukrainians did no aid was being withheld. there are discussions that took place that indicate that. >> the intelligence committee's top republican sounds pessimistic over the overall atmosphere going into these open public hearings. >> my guess is it's going to be a complete circus. we are not going to get any of our witnesses. the mainstream media is going to