it s unclear what prosecution trump is talking about and there is no public evidence that joe biden s son hunter biden was himself under investigation. president zelensky then says the next prosecutor will look into the situation. specifically to the company that you mentioned in this issue. president trump again says i will have mr. giuliani give you a call. this is now the fourth time he s brought up giuliani s name. the call ends with trump saying congratulations on a fantastic job you ve done. and a simple thank you from president zelensky and bye, bye. with that, as the backdrop, the whistle blower complaint landed in congress, the house and senate intelligence committee. sean patrick maloney sits on the panel. i spoke to him just before air time. congressman ma lonnie, obviously, the complaint is classified and there is certainly a lot you cannot say. you have read it. what was your overall reaction to what you read? well, as you point out, i can t discuss the details but i l
cooperation. he doesn t say no to trump s request for this favor. zelensky goes on to say i will personally tell you that one of my assistants spoke with mr. giuliani most recently. this confirms zelensky was already aware of giuliani s efforts to investigate both the manafort situation and the role that joe biden played in ukraine while his son hunter biden sat on the board of ukrainian company. zelensky then says i guarantee as the president of ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly. trump then asks zelensky to listen to giuliani and says i will ask him to call you along with the attorney general. trump is now heading attorney general barr to giuliani s quest to investigate a political rival of trumps and president trump then mentions joe biden by name. saying there s a lot of talk about biden s son. that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that.
necessarily is uniter scrutiny. it s unclear exactly what president trump meant by that. was he pushing zelensky to step up. president zelensky says we re almost ready to buy more javelins from the united states for defense purposes. javelins are shoulder fired missiles. the $400 million aid included $250 million in military aid. the president says i would like you to do us a favor and he mentions the firm crowd strike. crowd strike investigated a data breach of the dnc during the 2016 election and concluded that the russians were behind the hack. crowd strike is also at the center of rudy ghoul yooue giul investigation. president trump goes on to say i would like to have the attorney general call you or your people and i would like you to get to the bottom of it. zelensky responds by saying, we re open to any future
of the president on that call president trump clearly and openly pressed ukraine s president zelensky to work with attorney general bill barr to investigate his potential 2020 candidate joe biden and biden s son hunter. the ukrainian prosecutor said there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by him. whether he s gaslighting or truly of the belief there was nothing inappropriate, president trump tried to argue the rough transcript would exonerate him. it s a joke. impeachment for that? when you have a wonderful meeting or you have a wonderful phone conversation? by releasing the rough transcript did not exonerate the president and those republicans are sticking by the white house talking points insisting there is nothing to see here. there already appear cracks in that facade with republican senator ben sass calling it very
troubling. republican senator mitt romney calling it troubling in the extreme. republican senator pat tumy calling it inappropriate. governor pence in the vice presidential debates of 2016 called it pretty basic stuff. now y all need to know out there, this is basic stuff. foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot participate in the american political process. indeed. now so much of what we do know about this scandal has been admitted by president trump or rudy giuliani. stated out in the open. this afternoon sitting with zelensky the president noted how much military aid the united states has given ukraine while calling hunter biden corrupt and says zelensky is known for fighting corruption. when biden s son walks away with millions of dollars from ukraine and he knows nothing and