claims that his desire to press ukraine, those controversial points that he made in his phone calls, he says that none of it was about politics. i don t care about biden s campaign, but i do care about corruption. what i want to do and i think i have an obligation to do and probably a duty to do it, corruption. we are looking for corruption. and i believe there was tremendous corruption with bide ben. all of this as the president prepares to make substantial cuts to his national security team. the whistle-blower complaint mentioned the national security council but bloomberg news says two of its five sources say the decision to reduce staff is largely related efficiency and new leadership. there is after all a new national security advisor. jillian? jillian: ellison barber live for us, thank you. leland: take a step back for a second. benson summed up this week by
clinton. john cooper was set to be a hill starter. but told him i was trying to come up with a rational for her candidacy and i couldn t do it saying she was too calculating too, cautious, too controlled. cooper has become national finance chair for joe biden, a group that raised $110,000 since march. joining us now from washington chief investigative correspond for yahoo news michael isokof. good to have you back on the show. good to be back. you hear reports like. this the candidate always jumps in. what are the indications that joe biden won t? the bottom line is we don t know much it s clearly a very tough decision made even tougher by the tragic death of his son beau. but there are, you know increasing signs there. i talked to one top democratic fund-raiser who had talked to bide ben this a few months ago before beau s death.