mr. president, what exactly did you hope zelensky would do?a well, i would think if they were honest about it they d start a major investigation into the bidens. it s a very simple answer. they should investigate the bidens, because how does a company that s newly formed and all these companies and by the way, likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens. because what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened with ukraine. [ inaudible question ] i haven t, but it s certainly something we can start thinking about. so that right there, trump s call for the chinese to investigate the bidens comes as he is facing impeachment charges for pushing the ukrainians to ie investigate the bidens while withholding military aid from the ukrainians passed by bi congress. as that investigation moves
carefully and you ve learned a lot about how he communicates. what is the kind of psychology behind when he chooses to say something publicly, even if it is outrageous and especially if it is outrageous? well, i think you just see him grasping for whatever he can to get through the conversation he s in. he is standing on the south lawn of the white house. these issues come up related to joe biden. he knows what they ve been saying on fox news about how the next thing that giuliani is going to be going into is biden s ties to china, and he picks up and he runs the same play that he ran during the 2016 election and asks a foreign country for help. this is a thing we ve seen time and time again. i know a lot of people think this moment is very different. i lot of people thought the michael cohen investigation was very different. they thought the end of the mueller investigation was very different. in this instance trump has taken
him grasping for whatever he can to get through the conversation he s in. he is standing on the south lawn of the white house. these issues come up related to joe biden. he knows what they ve been saying on fox news about how the next thing that giuliani is going to be going into is biden s ties to china, and he picks up and he runs the same play that he ran during the 2016 election and asks a foreign country for help. this is a thing we ve seen time and time again. i know a lot of people think this moment is very different. i lot of people thought the michael cohen investigation was very different. they thought the end of the mueller investigation was very different. in this instance trump has taken sort of the greatest hits of the first half of the mueller report on collusion and then the second half on obstruction and smacked them together. he is trying to include with a foreign power to investigate his rivals, you know, and the democrats still seem to be struggling. so, you know, i
investigate the bidens while withholding military aid from the ukrainians passed by congress. as that investigation moves ahead, new reporting about the administration is emerging tonight. the new york times says trump s diplomats pushed ukraine to commit to inquiries into political rivals. the washington post writes that a former diplomat tells house investigators that ukrainians gave rudy giuliani bad information about the bidens. the wall street journal is on the board. they reveal trump ousted a u.s. ambassador to ukraine after complaints from giuliani and others. also from the washington post, there is apparently another whistle-blower, an irs complaint involving the audit of either the president s or vice president s tax returns. today we saw the first witness in the impeachment inquiry appear on capitol hill. kurt volker who resigned last week as trump s man in ukraine
publicly urges china to investigate the bidens. and that is indeed what we heard the president say. mr. president, what exactly did you hope zelensky would do? well, i would think if they were honest about it they d start a major investigation into the bidens. it s a very simple answer. they should investigate the bidens, because how does a company that s newly formed and all these companies and by the way, likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens. because what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened with ukraine. i haven t, but it s certainly something we can start thinking about. so that right there, trump s call for the chinese to investigate the bidens comes as he is facing impeachment charges for pushing the ukrainians to