iranian officials to blasting president trump. take a listen. here s what i know. i know trump the investigation. he s violated every basic judge jeanine: but here s tough guy biden from about a year and a half ago bragging about ordering ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor who happened to be investigating a company on which biden s son served as a board member. i went over, i guess, the 12th, 13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that there s another billion dollar loan guarantee. and i had gotten a commitment from po por poroshenko that thed take action against the prosecutor and they didn t. i said no, i m not going we re not going to give you the billion dollars. if the prosecutor is not fired,
whether it checks out. yeah, it s interesting. biden has himself told the story of the pressure he has applied on ukraine to get rid of the prosecutor. he s held this up as an example of his own work to clean up corruption. listen to what he said at an event in 2018. i m desperately concerned about the backsliding on the part of kiev in terms of corruption. i ll give you one example. i went over i guess the 12th, 13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that there s another billion dollar loan guarantee. and i had gotten a commitment fr from them that they would take action. they didn t. they were walking out to a press conference and i said we re not going to give you the billion dollars. they said you have no authority.
13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that there s another billion dollar loan guarantee, and i had got an commitment from por poroshenko yushchenko take action and they didn t. i said, nah, we re not going to give you the billion dollars. they said you re not the president. i said, call him. i m telling you, you re not getting the billion. i m leaving here in, what is it? six hours s if the prosecutor s not fired you re not getting the money. craig, can you explain why that prosecutor s ousting was so important to anti-advocates in the ukraine? reminds me of more than anything is what hillary went through in 2016, and you see this is essentially mafia justice. this is mafia-run foreign
trump is talking about the time in 2016 when then vice president joe biden demanded that ukrainian leaders fire the country s senior prosecutor who was widely seen as ineffective in fighting corruption. now, biden does not think that he did anything wrong here. in fact, he boasted about this effort to get the prosecutor fired. listen to what he said at an event in 2018. i m desperately concerned about the back sliding on the part of kiev in terms of corruption. they i ll give you weren t concrete example and i went over, i guess, the 12, 13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that there s another billion dollar loan guarantee. and i had gotten a commitment from poroshenko and from yachtsenyuf they would take action against the state prosecutor and didn t. walking out of the press conference i said, we re not
billion dollar loan guarantee and i got a commitment from them that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn t. so they said, they walked out of the press conference and said we re not going to give me the billion dollars. the prosecutor is not fired, you re not getting the money. well, he got fired. martha: okay, how did we get here to where we are today? there was a lot there, and correspondent ed henry will help us break it down tonight. i ve got some new information about a july phone call between the president of the united states and his ukrainian counterpart at the center of this controversy. detailing the democrats and pundits may be overreaching. senior officials familiar with the transcript of that call told me it is way overblown to suggest there was any threat at all to national security. top officials saying the media better be careful with this. there is no there there.