Hour. Ali velshi is here. That would be wild if there wasnt a mention of emoluments in the konsz constitution. Even without it. If you look at the way business operates, the way we operate, the way politics operates, you protect against seeming like seeming like. For your own pocket. Even if the impression is there you protect against that. This was the danger when people didnt take the emoluments clause seriously when we discussed it. It becomes more and more on normal. We started discussing it the way he was inaugurated, talking about the trump d. C. Hotel and it has been a consistent issue ever few months since then. New stories arise, does donald trump, is he working for himself, is he working for the American Public, his golf course in scotland the blind trust thats not blind. The air force stopping and staying inviting everybody from the
g7. They say they vetted a number of other properties. David was trying to figure out if they did, calling the other Properties Around the count
on the basis theyn t hadn t done enough against corruption. reporter: this adds another data point as we try to understand the series of events and rationale given by the white house and other events as we re learning them. here comes a new piece of information from the department of defense where they were n informing the relevant committees of congress about the preparedness to provide military asis tarns to ukraine. on behalf of the the secretary of defense and in coordination with the secretary of state, i have certified the government of ukraine has take condition substantial actions to make defense institutional reforms for the purpose of decreasing corruption, increasing accountability and staining improvements of combat capability enlabeled by assistance. this was in may, we know the
this prosecutor gone because he was not prosecuting corruption, so did the europeans and the imf. it did not come from joe biden, he just delivered our message. give me the context, you were there. what s the context around this? because there is spinning going on about what joe biden was involved in with respect to this former prosecutor? the context very simply was that ukraine needed loans from the international community, the imf, the international monetary fund, was supporting the ukrainian committee, we were providing loan guarantees and it was clearly spelled out to the ukrainians that a condition for that assistance was they had to improve their fight against corruption. they had to reform the prosecutor s office, the prosecutor was supposed to be prosecuting corruption and by late 2015 it was clear to us that this chief prosecutor in
the democrats pressing acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire this morning on why he withheld a whistle-blower complaint are not the only ones outraged by the complaints. some ukrainians are outraged that the president was pressured to investigator joe biden and his son. erin, i was talking to richard engel about this earlier. this is playing differently in ukraine. the ukrainian president said he wasn t pressured by donald trump but the bottom line is ukraine is to some degree beholden to the united states for the funding it gets and the military assistance, so a request like that is tricky for ukraine. reporter: yeah, that s actually right.