the president said they tried to take me down. the president referring to a theory that it was ukraine and not russia that interfered in the 2016 election. that has been debunked. kurt volker released pages of text that show how the trump administration with the help of rudy giuliani was determined to push ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son as well as that debunked theory. on july 25th the day of trump s phone call with ukrainian president zelensky volker texted zelensky s aide. heard from the white house, assuming he will convince him to investigate and got to the bottom of what happened in 2016 we ll nail down date for visit to washington. but kurt volker insisted in his statement he never took part in an effort to urge ukraine to investigate joe biden and saying the suggestion he would be influenced by money for his son has no credibility to me. i know him as a man of integrity and dedication to our country. but kurt volker s involvement in influencing ukrainian policy i
text that show how the trump administration was determined to push ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son as well as that debunked theory. on july 25th, the day of trump s phone call with ukrainian president, volker texted zeleny s aids. he will nail down date for visit to washington. volker insisted he never took part in an effort to encourage ukraine to investigate joe biden saying the suggestion he would be influenced in his duties as vice president by money for his son has no credibility to me. i know him as man of integrity and dedication to our country. volker s involvement in influencing ukrainian policy is clear. from this text in early august to rudy giuliani. hi, mr. mayor, had a good chat last night. he was pleased with your phone call. mentioned z making a statement. can we all get on the phone to make sure i advise z correctly
invasion of the body snatchers. who are these people? they re unrecognizable to me. they ve lost all conscience and all moral compass in order to defend the indefensible. jim, the president s former homeland security adviser who i think you know, tom bossert told abc not only is the substance of the president s phone call with the ukrainian president problematic but the president has to get over his debunked conspiracy theory of the 2016 election involving ukraine. do you agree with what bossert is saying? look, bossert s a credible guy. i said that on tv last night. i respect his opinion. let s not what he was talking about is relating to the dnc servers, not relating to the the debunked theory related to the dnc servers and not relating to the phone call with the president of ukraine. that being said, i agree, there is some hysteria the phone call with the president of ukraine was asking i mean, of the two asks, it was look into, investigate, the debunked the y theory,
the president s phone call with the ukrainian president problematic but the president has to get over his debunked conspiracy theory of the 2016 election involving ukraine. do you agree with what bossert is saying? look, bossert s a credible guy. i said that on tv last night. i respect his opinion. but let s not what he was talking about related to the dnc servers, not relating to the debunked theory related to dnc servers and not relating to the phone call with the president of ukraine. that being said, i agree there is some hysteria the phone call with the president of ukraine was asking i mean, of the two asks, it was look into, investigate the debunked theory, the, quote, made-up theory about ukraine and the servers. that was the first ask. the second was do me a favor on do me a favor on that. then the other ask was, you know, was about biden. looking into the biden issue. yeah. look, it s the president s prerogative to ask folks to look into corruption as he sees it
and as we know from how president trump often peoples, he often says more in even one sentence. it s possible he would have told volcker two different things. someone in the administration would have known, i think, alisyn. they were withholding that information from congress. but someone within the white house would have known why the president didn t want this to go forward. and i think we ve got to find out what was behind that. i think even republicans want to find out what was behind that. by the way, it was an act of congress that authorized that aid. in a bipartisan vote, congress decided that ukraine and by the way, ukraine is at war with russia which has invaded its territory. lauren fox, stood out to us this weekend. has the former homeland security adviser say in no uncertain terms that the president is pushing a debunked theory that he is told that a theory that