diplomats here and this who obviously did prefer hillary clinton because donald trump was saying at the time that crimea would look into allowing crima to be recognized as russian territory and even lift russian sanctions. so obviously the ukrainians had a preference for hillary clinton at that point. the senate committee looked into this thoroughly, did not fiend any evidence that there was a wide ranging top down conspiracy by ukraine stoffel idea that the republicans in the senate are saying that the ukrainians interfered the same way that russia did in 2016 is really disingenuous considering all the work the committee did to debunk that. all right. thank you both. thank you. joining me for more, what we expect to get going forward. michael steele, and mickey edwards, former congressman from oklahoma. mickey, since you re here, i ll go to you first. there is always the question.
then prosecutor told blumberg news that it found no evidence of wrongdoing by biden or his son. they are still in fact saying that and basically saying everybody there saying that donald trump and rudy giuliani and everybody else is lying about this. and that, again, in fact, the prosecutor that was fired did not press hard enough on any of the companies that should have been investigated. again, including the one associated with biden s son. the wall street journal goes on to explain in detail how the former vice president led anticorruption efforts in ukraine. journal reports that soon after russia invaded the country in 2014 and next crima, biden took a key role. around the same time, biden s son hunter took a board position with a ukrainian natural gas extraction company. the white house said at the time there was nothing wrong with
a bit of this. why not? your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do. which is what we do. crowne plaza. we re all business, mostly. zbreer back to watching cnn. brook baldwin comes from his upcoming summit. russia attacked and is still attacking the u.s. elections. it seized crima from ukraine using military force. shot down a commercial airline in ukraine, killing almost 300 people. it has accused of poisoning an ex-spy and his daughter in the u.k., and it supports a murderous dictator in syria. just this week a group of republican lawmakers had a cozy meeting in moscow on america s independence day no less. just as bipartisans sent in investigators who concluded that, yes, russia did indeed medal e meddle in the 2016
of some kind of deal whereby the u.s. would russia the illegal russia an exation of crima, and in return putin made some kind of promises about how they will back off the israeli border in syria with promise that is i think are very unlikely to be kept. military exercises. joint military exercises, and so you don t really know what trump is going to come out with after having a private audience with putin. right. if one will ever know, right, if it s just the two of them. attacking john mccain and bush 41. in case people missed it, roll it. even though we got a little surprise vote that evening, you all remember that evening.
still, the political point is an important one. there s no doubt, but look how we got into the situation. barack obama freshly sworn in president in 2009 tells our allies that they re taking away the missile defense system that was promised to them in eastern europe, which set up and em boldened the russians for what they did in crima. and the minsk papers aren t worth the paper they re printed on. and donald trump is bucking up, doing the right thing to our allies, providing weapons to those ukrainians seek to go live in peace. this is an aggression without provocation and i m glad there s bipartisan support, unfortunately, it may be too little too late for what s been done. leland: and bringing up an important point that president trump fixing what many would