And how is this all playing on the campaign trail . As the new poll shows a new first choice for democrats in the first in the nation caucus state. And if its monday, its meet the press. Im katy tur in for chuck todd. We begin with the president followed by angry denials after seemingly confirming reports he asked a foreign power to dig up dirt on his potential opponent joe biden, he asked aides to deny the requests. He spoke to reporters at the ukraine about joe bidens quote, corruption, and he wouldnt give joe biden to ukraine if he wasnt, quote, rooting out corruption. A large part of the conversation i had was corruption, the corruption taking place. Largely the fact we dont want people like Vice President biden and his son contributing to the corruption already in the ukraine. What did you tell the ukrainian president about joe biden and his son . Youre going to see because what we are doing, we want honesty. Its very important to talk about corruption. If you dont talk about corr