except she got a bit more secret service. except she got a bit more secret service. so that is what she did, where secret service. so that is what she did, where she secret service. so that is what she did, where she was. - secret service. so that is what she did, where she was. yes, | she did, where she was. yes, she did, where she was. yes, she worked. she did, where she was. yes, she worked. she she did, where she was. yes, she worked. she was - she did, where she was. yes, | she worked. she was president for 85 minutes and she works. and she stuck to her desk, she didn t go flying around. this is not unprecedented, is it? no, it is not unprecedented. president george w bush did this a couple of times where he transferred power to dick cheney. he had to have a couple of colonoscopies, likejoe biden did today. one president who also had a procedure, according to his press secretary stephanie grisham, who wrote in her book that he had a procedure that would have required him
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that he was much more involved in the ukraine scandal than he had led others to believe. volker did not honor our request for comment. volker has been the former special envoy to ukraine who helps the trump administration pressure ukraine to investigate president trump s political rival joe biden in exchange for a white house visit as well as an investigation that would undermine the mueller report. as cnn s jessica schneider reports, colver had told congress that president trump believed ukraine was corrupt and said the ukraine leader is trying to take him down. reporter: former u.s. special envoy to ukraine kurt volker s opening statement to lawmakers obtained by cnn today details rudy giuliani s influence on president trump s perception of ukraine as he tried to convince the president that ukraine s new government was serious about stopping corruption. kurt volker revealed he met in late may with president trump who insisted ukraine was a corrupt country full of terrible people.
republican senator who is saying that he heard of this quid pro quo and confronted president trump about it? reporter: republican senator ron johnson telling the wall street journal that the u.s. ambassador to the european union told him that the status of that military aid for ukraine was tied to the investigations that the president wanted to see the country carry out. now that significant for two reasons. one, because that ambassador to the e.u. told another top u.s. diplomat in ukraine that there was no quid pro quo, that there was no correlation and that essentially what he thought was happening was not happening. it is also significant because ron johnson tells the wall street journal that he confronted president trump over this who he said adamantly denied the two were linked. something we saw the president do repeatedly in front of reporters today. when i speak to a foreign leader, i speak in an appropriate manner. reporter: president trump stuck with that line of def
quid pro quo. well there was none. there is no quid pro quo. there is no quid pro quo. there is no pro-quo. repeating the denial of a quid pro quo which is something exchanged with the expectation of receiving something in return, repeating it doesn t make it any truer. especially after the first witness in the ukraine scandal handed over stunning text message exchanges to congress in which a top u.s. diplomat in ukraine wrote, quote, as i said on the phone, i think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign, unquote. president trump today continued to deny that it is inappropriate for a president to push for dirt on political opponents. he called it an obligation to look into corruption. but when asked today about a reporter if he could name one other time one other time that he pushed for an investigation into alleged or invented corruption, not of a
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