into this, ken vogul, the reporter who wrote about it, the article back in may said on friday that there s this could be a significant issue for joe biden and then there s more there. well, john, i know what happened in 2015 with the prosecutor, the international community needed the prosecutor to leave, corruption was the center problem we had with ukraine maintaining coalition with russia with sanctions and we had to deal with corrupt issues and the prosecutors was in the center of that, that was a policy that we we wanted to implement, joe biden s issue has been looked at for a long time, there s been findings that there s no improper involvement, this is a distraction by the president of the united states to distract from the most recent situation. you don t want to prejudge the situation with the president and the whistleblower but democratic colleagues are making the leap to impeachment, is that going too far? i think you need to get the facts, i don t think the impeach
the conversation was about and i think there was no pressure. so you have democrats on the one side calling for the president s impeachment over this and you is ukrainian foreign minister saying, i don t see any pressure. i think we need to know what happened, the allegations are that the president used the power of his office for partisan political purposes jeopardizing the national security of the united states by withholding aid to ukraine, one of our key strategic partners. nobody has made the connection of aid yet, we don t know what this thing is about. at least there s been some reports that there was $250 million that were held up, ultimately people have connected the dots but i don t think we have gotten anything to back that up. let s find out. let s have transparency here, we can easily find that out, the information about those phone calls would be released and we could see exactly what s involved, but the president which is chosen at least to date not to releas
congress, it not going on. it is a murky constitutional issue. one democrat we have not heard from calling for impeachment, speaker nancy pelosi, she set a standard we need to hear republicans be outraged not just democrats. john: should the transcript be released. i think they should release it. there is an issue of executive privilege. which also needs if this was obama, house republicans would have we have to go, thank you, juan. see you next sunday. coming up next, power player of the week, denzel washington, and club he said made him the man he is today. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.
biden. saying, i know what the conversation was about, i think there was no pressure. you have democrats on one side call for president t president s impeachment, and ukrainian president saying i do not see pressure. we need to understand what happened. john: nobody made a connection about aid. there have been some reports there were 250 million held off. i think people have connected dots but nothing to back it up. let s find out. let s have transparency, we could find that out. information about the phone calls to be released. then we could see. but president chosen to date to not release it. these are serious allegations,
that is wrong. previous presidents have also disputed the idea that the president has an obligation by statute to do that. it s a mirky constitution issue. the one democrat calling for impeachment the one democrat who counts speaker pelosi, republicans should be outraged not just democrats and so far we haven t heard that. 15 second, should the transcript be released? of course. i think they should release it, there s the issue of executive privilege governing foreign communications. if this was obama house republican would we have to go, see you next sunday by the way, power player to have week, denzel washington and the club he says made him the man that he is today.