cooperation. he doesn t say no to trump s request for this favor. zelensky goes on to say i will personally tell you that one of my assistants spoke with mr. giuliani most recently. this confirms zelensky was already aware of giuliani s efforts to investigate both the manafort situation and the role that joe biden played in ukraine while his son hunter biden sat on the board of ukrainian company. zelensky then says i guarantee as the president of ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly. trump then asks zelensky to listen to giuliani and says i will ask him to call you along with the attorney general. trump is now heading attorney general barr to giuliani s quest to investigate a political rival of trumps and president trump then mentions joe biden by name. saying there s a lot of talk about biden s son. that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that.
preventing future misconduct because you could impeach this guy every day of the week and he still is going to be there and he might keep doing this. we ll talk about impeachment later in the show. carl, i want to stay focused on today s release of the rough transcript, et cetera and a number of times in this transcript you see president trump bringing up attorney general barr. in fact, not once, not twice, five times in the rough transcript he brings up barr, that barr will be working in coordination with the ukrainians and rudy giuliani, president trump s personal attorney to investigate vice president biden. are you surprised that president trump sees barr as kind of like his own private detective/personal attorney? not at all. all you have to do is look at barr s handling of the mueller inquiry but more than that, barr at the present time is conducting an investigation