shut down all u.s. dollar transactions and that would shut down turkey. steve: complicated turkey is nato ally. guarantees not following up on them. another big story, hunter biden has been announced via his attorney on the internet has made it very clear that at the end of this month, not immediately but at the end of this month he is going to step away from being on that chinese-backed private equity firm by the name of bhr equity investment fund. this is big and pressure from the president. ainsley: hunter always understood that his father would be guided entirely unquick cab buy by u.s. policy regardless of effects on hunter biden s interest. he never anticipated false charges on him and the president of the united states. they are blaming president trump. brian: his decision to get involved in international funds in both at least in ukraine and china definitely hurt the president s
prospect. saw a cbs poll said senator, vice president biden s electability was at 77% among democrats that was his main asset. it is 67% electable. 10 fold points with senator joe biden who became vice president joe biden greatest asset and that is electability. congressman collins weighed in on this. remember, he has been the one lined closed doors listening to at love his testimony on impeachment. listen to this. well, it s pretty amazing now hunter biden after the light has been shined on to what seemingly is some interesting dools i deals in cha and ukraine and other places now say i will step away from all of this it might seem to be a conflict with my father if he ever become president. big leap of faith. this just shows you how much this is just a mess-up situation and how much other things going on and all the democrats want to do is focus on president trump because they don t like president trump because everything going on. i think this is just another
sondland is going to say thursday i m not sure if it s a quid pro quo, can i tell you what the president told me to tweet out or text forward. this could be problematic. in the big picture, if you want to know where to go from here, look at what the president said. nobody noe one is talking about what the president of ukraine said. in an 12-hour interview he said 30 different ways i never felt pressured by the president. in fact, when i was on the phone, i did not even know that the money was being delayed. now we got it. i have no problem. nobody wants to report that the guy ukraine, not at the u.n., in the ukraine said i haven t felt pressure. steve: he said there was no blackmail. there was no quid pro quo. which is what the president said. we saw the tape. transcript. one really there. ainsley: want to talk to lindsey graham about that and find out if the republican senators are going to get involved here. they don t feel like impeachable offense. don t feel like quid pro quo. are
relationship a little more too. steve: wait a minute. what are you suggesting? i m suggesting that people still have contacts, obviously based on prior professional relationships to trump s white house. people advising donald trump, whose sole purpose on the national security council is to provide president trump with national security information to make life or death decisions left and went to work for the opposition political party under adam schiff on the house intel committee. why would you do that? nothing illegal. i m not suggesting illegality. i m suggesting unusual, no? why would you do that? these people still have professional contacts from where the leak we know emanated from the national security council. brian: dan, do you think in retrospect, it was wise for the president to even put rudy into the ukraine to investigate? i do and i will tell you why prominent ukrainians again their information needs to be vetted like anyone else who tried to reach out to the departme