Over the last few days about these investigations into burisma and biden and the 2016 crowd strike server. and you in that conversation with mr. giuliani basically debunked all of that. now, at that time at that breakfast who else was with you at that breakfast? there was someone that mr. giuliani brought along. i later learned this was lev parnas who we ve learned a lot about since then. so mr. lev parnas was at that breakfast that mr. giuliani had with you. and we now know that mr. parnas has since been indicted for foreign campaign contributions to president trump s political action committee. is that correct? i have seen that. all right. on may 23rd, you were in that discussion with the president and at one point he referred to
President wanted them to do that and he was going to hold off a meeting until or a phone call or whatever until they did that. my i think what i m saying is they picked the wrong area. the president has the most absolute authority when it comes to foreign policy. he can foreign policy is all about quid pro quo, every single day it s quid pro quo. you don t really believe that the crowd strike server/biden family is the penultimate example of corruption in crew yan? it is not, it s not an illegitimate thing for the president to do. you can say he s abusive because he cares more about something that affects him personally, but the president has very broad authority when it comes to these not can i bring up one piece i think it s inappropriate, but i don t think it s an abuse of his office. one piece that republicans keep going back to is, oh, he was looking into corruption, he cares about corruption. ukraine got a clean bill of health on corruption, they got in
Has been possible to imply that there was something sorted about this. just as it was possible to imply that with her role in. after five separate investigations they could find nothing wrong. here you have a two serious investigations. one by the fbi. one by the state department that found nothing wrong. and yet, just last night at the rally, trump can t let it go. yeah. he was saying hope they find the 33,000 e-mails and on and on. the crowd is loving it. and cheering. when it s all just a conspiracy theory. and still president trump is looking for the 2016 crowd strike server in ukraine. which is a fabrication and held up aid over it. what is sad about this is we are we have gotten to a stage it is possible to gin up this
That with her role in. after five separate investigations they could find nothing wrong. here you have a two serious investigations. one by the fbi. one by the state department that found nothing wrong. and yet, just last night at the rally, trump can t let it go. yeah. he was saying hope they find the 33,000 e-mails and on and on. the crowd is loving it. and cheering. when it s all just a conspiracy theer are. and still president trump is looking for the 2016 crowd strike server in ukraine. which is a fabrication and held up aid over it. what is sad about this is we are we have gotten to a stage it is possible to gin up this this idea of corruption. this idea of the swamp. to make these charges.
Russia that somehow these crazy conspiracy theories would be part of that and that therefore the entire thing was completely above board and legit that the quid really didn t have to do with the bidens. you see the justice department pushing back on that. and unfortunately for the evidence that also negates that. we saw where the president said i need a favor and he went into both the crowd strike server and the origins of russia investigation. and he said there was one other thing and he talked about the bidens. that s in their own transcript. then you ve got the testimony now that is coming out from numerous officials including mr. mckinley who frankly resigned, a career diplomat of over 20 years. and he said, and i quote, i was disturbed by the implication that foreign governments were being approached to procure negative information on political opponents. that is the bidens that he is talking about there.