conversations with orban and putin. kent? fiona hill assessed both leaders both putin and orban extensively talked ukraine down, said it was corrupt. said zelensky was in the thralls of oligarchs. did dr. hill think that that had an impact on trump s outlook? kent. i cannot recall what she said in that meeting besides giving me the brief readouts of those two meetings, but that was my takeaway and that those two world leaders along with rudy giuliani shaped the president s view of ukraine and zelensky and would account for the change from a very positive first call on april 21st to his negative assessment of ukraine when he had the meeting in the oval office on may 23rd. peter and the table back. jeremy, it s been pointed out to me that we are folkused obviously on the call, the summary of the call. but that the origins of the scandal were put in motion way before the aid was actually held up. and i think peter and his colleagues have written about
secret vote, 30 g.o.p. senators would vote to impeach. watch this. one republican senator told me if it was a secret vote, 30 republican senators would vote to impeach trump. martha: ben sasse also speaking out just to put this together. republicans ought not to be circling the wagons to say there is no there there when there s office the life that s troubling. your thoughts? i like the senator a lot, but here s what i would say to anybody. this phone call was billed as an attempt by the president of the united states to shake ukraine down, to threaten to withhold military aid and assistance to the ukraine unless the president of the ukraine opened an investigation against his political opponent. if you read this transcript, that s the furthest thing from the truth. this is ridiculous. i read the phone call transcrip transcript. the president of the united states congratulated the ukrainian president on his won, said we ve been very generous to the ukraine. germany and other peop
us loan guarantees. part two is additional sanctions. in part 3 the president is asking lawmakers to approve reform at the imf. they re preparing a mighty billion dollar bailout for the ukraine which is struggling economically. the white house has been pushing for the imf reforms before the ukraine crisis but says congressional approval now would help get the assistance for ukraine down. we re now hearing about a possible plan to break some of russia s leverage by using america s natural gas resources. so how in the world would that work? we ll have the details next on shepard smith reporting, leave from kiev. e same dilemma who gets the allstate safe driving bonus check. rock beats scissors! [ chuckles ] wife beats rock. and with two checks a year, everyone wins. [ female announcer ] switch today and get two safe driving bonus checks a year for driving safely. only from allstate.