clear to president trump that he, president zelensky, was not standing in the way of investigations. investigations of what? by mid-july, it became clear to taylor the meeting, quote, was conditioned on the investigations of burisma, the company where joe bidenen s son sat on the board of directors and alleged ukrainian interference in the 2016 u.s. elections. a push, quote, guided by mr. giuliani. to hear what was taking place, this separate group that was going on talking about u.s. policy where 2020 elections, political elections interests was taking place led by mr. giuliani, it was absolutely stunning. reporter: but the oval office meeting was not the only thing being withheld. taylor testified, quote, on july 18th, i heard a staff person from the office of management and budget say there was a hold on security assistance to ukraine, a quote, directive had come from the president to the chief of staff to omb.
of the president, he says trump would have violated his oath of office if he did not ask ukraine to investigate joe bidenen and h joe biden and his son. those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. k from the couldn t be prouders
charges of corruption. if he hadn t asked them to investigate biden, he would have violated article 2, section 3 of the constitution, and i also know if obama had called biden in when the new york times first wrote the storefuly in december of 2015, that his son had a massive conflict of influence working for the most corrupt oligarch in ukraine, if obama had called him in like a president who understood article 2 section 3 and said joe, what the heck are you doing with your son who just got tossed ouft of the military where i had to pull strings to get him in, your son is working for the biggest crook listen to me, the biggest crook in ukraine and we re trying to fix corruption in ukraine and you got him working for nikola zoschlefsky who stole 5 billion. amid the growing scandal surrounding his client, giuliani has canceled he announced
states is the whistle-blower, and this individual is a saboteur trying to undermine a democratically elected government. saboteur, is he a spy? is he committing treason? i do not know. the president said that, you know. the president correctly pointed out that the behavior of this individual is close to a spy. i don t think there was a single question answered in that entire exchange. president trump s personal lawyer was back on television over the weekend trying to clean up the political scandal engulfing him. rudy giuliani claimed if trump had not asked ukraine to investigate joe and hunter biden, the president would have been violating the constitution. are you telling me that there was evidence that barack obama was calling up the russians saying i want you to look into donald trump, then you wouldn t be blowing that up. he didn t do that. i know he didn t do that. no, trump didn t do that. he called him up and he said i want you to investigate these
in october in mumbai. this is a big deal. the nba is the game taking place where the creme toe kings and indiana sacramento kings and indiana pacers. he said don t be surprised if i show up, clearly making the point that relations both politically and in a friendship way, he hopes, continue. leland: nikki haley just tweeted out that she is with franklin graham in speaking about her time as south carolina and u.n. ambassador in south sudan, so why nikki haley wasn t there, the question answered. but she s retweeting the prime minister and president trump as well. we re going to take a quick break. one thing the president did not talk about in this was ukraine and vice president joe bidenen s accusation. that on the other side of the break. i m your cat. ever since you brought me home, that day. i ve been plotting to destroy you. sizing you up. calculating your every move.