or political gain. and what i think the white house is making a major mistake trying to refuse to have people testify. trying to make up stories. it s all going to come true. you can t have actions in the government like this that remain secret. so there will be congressional investigations, press investigations. more people will come forward and say here s why that aid was held up and the only reason that aid was held up is because the president wanted the ukrainians to help them dig up dirt on the bidens. that s all going to come out and it is highly unusual. that is going to be the basis of the impeachment of this president. we ll see what the senate does. the other question here is, where is mike pompeo? all of the people who are out front talking about this earlier on have disappeared. you haven t heard from giuliani in a long time. and mike pompeo has got a really tough choice on his hands. he s wanting to back the president because he s probably going to go run for the senate an
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giuliani s anti-biden crusade dovetailed perfectly with president trump s conviction that ukraine conspired against him in the 2016 election. all of which leads back to that fateful phone call. and the new evidence, reams of text messages that showed how hard president trump and his men were willing to push a foreign government to dig up dirt on a domestic rival. still ahead, the impeachment crisis just keeps getting worse for president trump. it s a very simple story. it s an abuse of power. t mattre. whether you re looking for a top-brand at a great price. ready to upgrade. moving in. moving on up. or making big moves. deliveries ship free and come with a 100-night free trial. no matter your budget. or your sleep style. we have quality options for everyone.
tonight we ll dive deep into the part of the story you haven t heard. and key players will reveal for the first time what really happened. as we go on assignment. the conversation just after 9:00 a.m. on july 25th started out friendly. president donald j. trump calling his newly elected counterpart, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. this is from the official notes of the phone call released by the white house. congratulations on a great victory, we all watched from the united states and you did a terrific job, president trump tells president zelensky. you are absolutely right, mr. president, zelensky responds, we did win big and we worked hard for this. we worked a lot but i would like to confess to you that i had an opportunity to learn from you. it was actually the first
and here s where the story gets interesting. ukraine s prosecutor general at the time was named victor shokin. it was his job to oversee the investigation into burisma. was he an effective prosecutor? totally uneffective. he was appointed with the idea to fight against corruption, to be independent. but he has no credibility and no ability to investigate. he is just crooked. shokin quickly earned a reputation for protecting powerful friends, including the exiled president, viktor yanukovych. protesters in kiev demanded that shokin be fired, and they weren t the only ones unhappy with shokin s slow walking of corruption cases. it was the whole international community. it was the european union. it was international financial organizations. it was about reform of our prosecutor offices.