jill biden is the fourth reason i am supporting joe biden.eering and applause] biden has been a fierce advocate for children, women, for people who have suffered domestic abuse, for veterans, men and women in the military, and it will be great to have joe biden in the white house, won't it? it is my great pleasure to introduce dr. jill biden. [cheering and applause] biden: thank you, governor lynch. thank you. joe and i are so happy to be back and new hampshire and especially to see you and susan again and now that we have julia, your daughter, thank you for coming. i was recently at a greek festival here in new hampshire, 's, we went with the lynch and what stood out to me was just how much admiration and affection that granite staters have for both of you. i want to thank you for your friendship and your support. [cheering and applause] thank you for sharing this day with us. friendship like yours is without measure. the men and women you represent are incredibly important to me and to joe. i taught a lot of firefighters over the years, and

also apparently friends you have biden. of biden. he wasn't on the call. his information was hearsay, thirdhand material. republicans must demand this nonwhistleblower go under oath. what was the contact with schiff's office? what was the relationship with biden? who was the person who gave you this thirdhand information? and let's be clear: the whistleblower statute does not guarantee anonymity.we does protect against retribution and retaliation. they must also demand that hunter and joe biden, that they be put under oath, that they be subpoenaed. let's not forget the corrupt compromised congenital liar adam schiff. he is now a fact witness in this case. let's put him under oath.. schiff, in fact, his office, what advice did they offer the nonwhistleblower, whistleblower from the very beginning? he can't bringlobe the whistleblower in because the whistleblower will be asked questions about him. this is a set-up. it's all been conjured again by deep state, unelected bureaucrats that are just obsessed with impeaching trump because they can't beat him. and c

biden: look. the other thing is that global warming, look, the idea that somehow we make these assertions that you can eliminate it in two years, no one says that, but the fact is that we know how to get by 2050, andions by 2030, we can lock in systems you can't get out of so we can get there and guarantee it. but folks, we only make up 15% of the world's problem. the remaining 85% is the group i helped put together called the paris climate accord with 170 nations that other in fact, makeup 85% of the problem. there are two things we have to do, the first thing as president is i will rejoin the thing i helped put together, number one. [applause] v.p. biden: number two, within the first 100 days, i will have those 173 countries and their leaders come to the united states for a conference on how we will up the ante and get this done. i know how to do that. that's what i've done my whole career. bringing nations together as well as passing things in the legislative hall, congress of the united states

i trust joe biden. joe biden is going to restore the soul of this country and the character of the white house. wouldn't that be nice? [cheers and applause] >> joe biden will bring integrity in defense of ethics and decency, and honesty to the white house. cheers and applause] >> joe biden will be able to build a team of outstanding policy advisers, domestic policy advisers, and foreign policy advisers and staff them with competent people, something we do not see with this current white house. cheers and applause] second reason is i like joe biden [cheers and applause] he's genuine, caring, authentic, and such a decent, wonderful person. i can't wait for him to get into the white house. cheers and applause] >> the third reason i'm supporting joe biden is joe iden will beat donald trump. cheers and applause] and the fourth reason i'm supporting joe biden is dr. jill biden [cheers and applause] jill biden has been a fierce advocate for children, for women, for people who have suffered domestic abuse, for

and hunter biden. they may have done it. the foreign corrupt practice it ises act. you can't use extortion or bribery or sflns a -- influence a foreign government to benefit you. these new documents unveiled by john solomon implicate hunter biden in this as well. so there is compelling evidence to justify department of justice investigation. if they don't do it, i would suggest congress do it. lindsey graham, chairman of the judiciary committee should open vchgzs. >> sean: let me put up on the screen, matt gaetz, willie brown, former high-profile official, i don't agree with a thing but he's a fun guy sounding the alarm in a piece titled. he writes this. >> sean: come next year we'll have an impeachment victory and quite possibly a solid economy. the democrats will have what? absolutely nothing, matt gaetz. >> democrats are running a campaign of disorientation and distraction. that's principally for two reasons. they failed to deliver on the promises regarding health care, immigration, infrastructure,

there is a lot of talk about biden's son and that biden stops the prosecution and people want to find out about that so whatever you could do with the attorney general would be great. biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution. so if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. this is the president asking another foreign leader to look into a man who is the leading candidate to be his political rival. you don't have to say 2020 for it po be clear. >> i have to push back on all of that. first of all, look at what he asked him to do. he asked him to investigate what happened when joe biden as vice president of the united states, dana, stopped a prosecution of a company where his son who -- as his son admitted only got the jobs because of his last name and got the contracts because of his last name. he's talking about 2016 and not 2020 and respectfully joe biden is not his main political rival. joe biden was in idaho yesterday and said he was ohio. >> then why good the president tweet about joe biden all of the time. >> but he fweets did -- >> but no -- >> let me talk

a new biden bombshell, "the new york times" is reporting that while joe biden was president's own aidese concerned about his son hunter's position with the ukrainian gas company. according to "the new york times," biden's own aides were so worried about the objects that they enlisted state department officials to gather facts to determine how to handle the story. this comes a month after a top state prompt official told congressional investigators he raised red flags about the younger bidens employment in 2015 but was rebuffed by a biden staffer. it also comes as president trump and is more allies were calling on both bidens to testify in the impeachment inquiry publicly. beverly holberg, visiting fellow with independent women's forum. david burstein, founder of run for america. great to see you both. beverly, i'm going to start with you. this is in concert with with the president and other republicans have been saying. how does this play into it's happening this week with public hearings? >> this has been the gamble for democrats all along, knowing that if they move forward with impeac

biden: look, folks. you know, first of all, thank you all for being here and i want to thank bruce and betty. i don't know where betty is but i want to thank them both. thank you very much. we have been friends a long time. folks, this is all about a basic, basic point. forad used to always say, real, you remember the things your father said or mother said more than once. everybody -- joey, no one is better than you but everyone is your equal. that was a mantra in my house. no one is better than you, but everyone is your equal. that is how i was raised. that raised to believe that everybody deserves a shot. i came from two little towns as a kid, scranton, pennsylvania. --you listen to per rock barack obama, you would think i climbed out of the coal bucket but myshovel in my hand, dad was a white collar salesperson. everything died economically. i moved back to claymont, delaware, which was then a big steel town. we had several steelworkers in that town and i grew up self-conscious. i came from an irish c

how much taxpayer aid went to a biden family business while joe biden was in control of the eight.cisely because joe biden is running for president now is that we need to know that. and the only way that we can find out is to ask the ukrainian government, we have to get to the bottom of the biden ukraine cash for gas candle. joining me not to talk about all of this in the bill he introduced in the house, the call for an investigation, great to see. we been on the same page for a long time. you been on the show way before impeachment started focusing, tell us the latest. with this bill your pushing forward. >> i have heard from the left that somehow were destroyed to make up something whether there's nothing there and i want an investigation. i want the united states congress to look into this with the effort that we have made going after president trump. if this was not hunter biden, if this was donald trump junior, they would've done this months ago, i went a straight up investigation, i just want the facts, i want hunter biden to testify, i want devon to testify and i want vice p

listen, the only person that doesn't think that burisma is about joe biden is joe biden. the state department prepping the ambassador for nomination hearing was prepared for a question and directed people to joe biden. ambassador to the united states for the obama administration will not send the media or the senators to joe biden unless they thought he knew something about it. but, let me wind you back to something else you just said, sean. you talked about the need to release transcripts. i have done some reporting. in the period after prosecutor shokin raided the home of hunter biden's about, the owner of burisma, and before burisma showed up and started lobbying the state department a few weeks later in february. joe biden had three consecutive phone calls. three. but the president of ukraine. it's the only time in a two-year period i have can find flee consecutive contacts between biden and president. did biden any of those issues come up in calls. joe biden owes us an answer given the circumstances these documents provide to the american public. >> sean: can you bel

and hunter biden. they may have actually already done it but principally the foreign corrupt practices act. you can't use extortion and bribery to coerce or influence a foreign government into taking official action that benefits you. that's the quid pro quo and the best evidence of it is the fire prosecutor who said that's exactly what joe biden did, and now these new documents unveiled by john solomon implicate hunter biden in this as well, so there's compelling evidence to justify department of justice investigation. if they don't do it i suggest congress do it, lindsey graham, chairman of the judiciary committee, should open investigation. >> sean: let me put up on the screen, matt gaetz, willie brown, former high-profile official -- i actually like them, i don't agree with the thing but he's a fun guy. sounding the alarm in a piece entitled "impeachment whenever democrats? don't bet on it." he writes this. "of the democrats will spend the next few precious months acting out a pretend cliffhanger t

they are lying about the bidens. every single day, they live when they say that they are journalists. they are not journalists. yet, they have the gall, they always want to criticize us.t look at fake news cnn. look at all their phony reporting. if they are actually using, well, this guy wouldn't have a job, he's so bad that tv. low rating stenographer of jeff zucker, their president.w- his name was humpty dumpty, that is what i call him. he dedicated an entire segment, he doesn't have, i don't think, a million viewers on a show, so i sparsely watched sunday show critiquing our coverage of schiff's impeachment charade, calling for ukrainian interference in 2016 election a conspiracy theory.ng the problem, the ukrainian court determined otherwise, maybe he'd want to go and look at what politico said on january 11th, 2016, and read about alexandra chalupa, ukrainian embassy in washington, and how successful they weren't interfering, helping hillary and trying to hurt donald trump. but then they feature a guest suggesti

maria: you've said on the program not too long ago that hunter biden needs to answer questions, whatyour reaction to this list that your colleagues in the house have prepared as far as those they would like to hear from? >> they could care less about getting to the truth, what really did happen, why was the prosecutor fired, the john solomon foyer request is stunning, you can see efforts in the state department where they were worried about the conflict of interest between hunter biden and the company being investigated and when the president of the president, barmisa, i think is the company, when house was raided the bidens kicked in. we will look at that i consider any impeachment in the house that doesn't allow us to whistleblower to know who it is to be invalid. without whistleblower complaint we wouldn't be talking about any of this and hunter biden to be called to adequately defend the president and if you don't do the two things it's a complete joke. maria: you mentioned the john solomon reporting, testimony bombshell, obama administration tried to partner with hunter biden's

and then joe biden. would like him to swear under oath whether his demand to have a prosecutor fired with a quid pro quo to take the law enforcement off his son. i want adam schiff under oath. did he lie when he said he didn't know who the whistleblower was. did he create a narrative in alexander chalupa, a open raw tough who allegedly worked with ukraine to provide dirt on the dnc. and we have to hear from the whistleblower who adam schiff claims he doesn't know to find how the how much of this was preplanned. polls show the american public is tiring of this charade like the russia collusion delusion. it's hurting our country. as the democrat haters will do anything they can to destroy the president when in reality, they are tearing apart this country. the inspector general's report is due on december 9. and that along with the trial in the senate will cause the democrats to be hoisted on their own petard. which will be well earned. and that's my open. let me know what you think on my facebook, twitter,

remember him, hunter biden? he is the lack luster politician son who not only got into yale law school, you are not a genius, no you didn't. not only that, but made close to a million dollars working in the ukrainian energy business despite knowing nothing about ukraine or energy. even by the standards of international corruption, it turns out he struck a remarkably corrupt deal. how corrupt? and analysis by watchdog research found that hunter biden's pay on the board of burisma energy amounted to 12 times what is typical for a company of that size. and yet, some are still claiming that hunter biden was hired by burisma to assist with "transparency and corporate reform." amazing. hilarious, actually, but also depressing because in the end this isn't really about hunter biden. it's not actually even really about the impeachment of the president. what you are seeing here, the story that is unfolding as a story about america's ruling class, some of which has been bought out by foreign entities. not surprisingly, in

biden family, i would imagine -- >> alex: the biden campaign needs to get out of this.publicans aren't going to let it go. they should be much more transparent -- >> harris: i've heard that said before about other topics. the biden campaign needs to get out of this. >> alex: they should be more transparent about what hunter was doing. >> marie: they are not responding quickly to things. on this issue, where i don't believe vice president biden did anything wrong, they have been slow to respond. i think because they don't want to get down into the mud with president trump. but where they are. we are all in the mud to get. >> harris: you know what else we are? where it with chad pergram on capitol hill, who has a transcript. i was just boasting about how great you are at speed reading all of this. give us a couple of headlines, and how long is this one? >> four to 46 pages. it's bigger. >> harris: is that as heavily-redacted is the last one we saw? >> there are some reductions at the top. i get about 20 pages in and there's a couple individual lines that have been redacte

president joe biden opening a cap in office with his wife jill biden in iowa. then, andrew young being with supporters yesterday in marshalltown. at noon, we will be at the atlantic council for a discussion about energy policy and the 2010 campaign. and later, a look at potential threats to the 2020 election at eastern. live this evening, president trump will be holding a campaign rally in lexington, kentucky. will take you there live at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. a reminder, you can watch all our programs online at c-span.org, or listen to them on the free c-span radio app. joe, former vice president biden talking to supporters in des moines on saturday. [crowd cheering] [applause] >> good morning, everybody. for those who aren't from south side, welcome to the south side of des moines, or as the rest of us like to call it, god's country. [laughter] you are part of a family when you are in the south side, because we on the south side are really a working class family. we are a working-class family who believes that if you work hard for a living, if you play

son hunter biden. joe biden responded to that. >> lindsay is about to go down in a way i think he will regret his whole life. lindsay, i just, i am just embarrassed by what you are doing, for you. kristen: he is fundraising off of this. do you think joe biden's role in the impeachment inquiry will help or hurt him in the 2020 primary? >> from the most corrupt state in the country, illinois. to have his son benefit from a position of his father is unbelievable and for democrats in the senate i'm embarrassed by them. if you are going to have a true and honest impeachment inquiry you need to bring in hunter biden, joe biden, open up, the situation does not seem right for anyone being honest. kristen: do you think this impeachment inquiry hurts biden or help him? does the fundraising help or hurt him? >> it does hurt him to have his name associated with alleged corruption but it is not grounded in evidence. people talking about hunter biden, what about ivanka trump working in the white house talking to hea

those two board members, his son hunter and joe biden claimed he didn't know biden was on the board,eak. the spokesperson replied no, he's a private citizen. but in 2015, a separate state department official raised concerns. biden's own staff. but he was blown off. joe wants us to believe even though this state department and his staff knew, he didn't. finally, hunter biden's own account, hunter said he did discuss his original work with his dad. he told him, i hope you know what you are doing. if there is no corruption here, why is joe biden lying about this. new details emerged about the corruption, and freedom of information request. john solomon confirmed if a lobbying firm used hunter biden in the meeting, one day after that, devon archer met with secretary of state john kerry. seven months before those meetings hunter biden met with deputy secretary of state tony blinkham. meeting with the two top officials in the state department while billions of dollars were flown to ukraine. joe biden was in control of that aid. it's pry sighsly because joe biden is running for president no

taxpayer aid went to a ukrainian company that was paying joe biden's son while joe biden was in charge of the eight. that's the corruption, that's what needs to be investigated. okay. the reason i want to be clear with this redirection is because i feel the story on all this has gotten up bit murky and muddied. there is a clear link between biden, the aide and the gas company but we don't know how much money. >> there is a timeline and as you know, the media is not pressing on this. nora o'donnell had an opportunity but she didn't say anything. there's an interesting phenomenon. i've been going to all the debates in talking with democratic voters, they care about this issue. they think it's shady, the other candidates refused to call him out on this. it's very troubling to me because there's been this kumbaya come up protect uncle joe, this is a primary. anything that any candidate had done, any bit of corruption, if it was shady they all went after each other. the democrat, if they had any guts they would go after joe biden and hunter because the voters care about it. especially when

>> he said he was more interested in the bidens. >> more interested in the bidens. no discussion of la chess ski or chalupa or things that happened seven years ago? he was interested in the bidens? >> yes, sir. >> now, i think you also testified that. >> pump wanted zelensky in a public box; is that right? >> yes, sir. >> by public box public statements investigations of the bidens were not enough? he had to go on tv. he had to go public in some way because the president wanted him in that box. is that your understanding? >> mr. chairman i don't know what he had in mind or ambassador sondland had in mind who was the one who mentioned that to me. that's the implication. the implication needed to be public as opposed to being a privacprivate assurance. >> i think you said in that same call you asked ambassador sondland to push back on president trump's demand. >> , is that right? >> that's correct, sir. >> so you understood from your conversation with sondland this was the president's demand. not sondland's the president's demand. and you wanted the president tsondlan

, about hunter biden, joe biden's son. let's take a listen to what he had to say this past week. >> no conspiracy theory is too outlandish for the democrats. you would think they would take some interest in burisma and you'd think they would be interested in joe biden. we need to subpoena hunter biden. >> i think one of the mothers of all conspiracy theories is that somehow the president of the united states would want a country that he doesn't even like, he doesn't want to give foreign aid to, to have the ukrainians start an investigation into bidens. >> okay. so you can see clearly from that nunes has a very strong interest in what biden was doing in ukraine. apparently that was a topic of conversation between nunes and this former prosecutor general of ukraine. the guy's name is viktor shokin. as you mentioned earlier, he was forced out of his job inspe 201 because the u.s. and other western powers were saying he wasn't doing enough to crack down on corruption. kind of undercuts some of the theories from nunes and his c

. >> next, joe and jill biden visit a new field office for mr. biden's 2020 presidential campaign. on the south side of des moines, iowa. after his remarks, mr. biden greeted those in attendance. greeted those in attendance. [applause] [applause] [crowd cheering] [crowd cheering] good morning, everybody. aren't from south side, welcome to the south side of des moines, or as the rest of us like to call it, god's country. [laughter] you are part of a family when you are in the south side, because we on the south side are really a working class family. we are a working-class family who believes that if you work hard for a living, played by the rules, do what is right, you deserve a little dignity in your life. >> absolutely. [applause] with are a diverse family, irishns living next living next to latinos living next african-americans living next to straits, length thing next to immigrant -- living next to immigrants, living next to natural-born citizens, and we are a family who truly believes this diversity makes us a stronger family. [applause] we are a family that looks out for each

and hunter biden and asked for an investigation. so we are just going to have to debate that but isn't the principle that no bern, including the president, is above the law absolutely essential and worth the effort to make certain that we continue to guarantee, ambassador morrison? >> sir, i haven't -- >> i'm sorry, a.mbassador volke? >> yes. >> mr. morse son? >> sir, the rule of law is essential to our democracy. >> that's so true. you know, we've had some discussions and challenge from the other side that the president has authority in foreign policy to do what he likes. in fact, he does. a recent precedent to take our troops out of syria and allow the turkish forces to go in literally meant that some kurdish families went back to bed saturday night and woke up sunday morning, packed their kids and fled for their lives. a lot of people including both sides of the aisle totally disagreed with that. the president has the authority to do it, compulsive as it may have been, as unwise as it may have been as threatening to our national

peter doocy has the report. >> reporter: joe biden is rolling. he is first in the polls and the first of the primary state which is fourth on the calendar after iowa, new hampshire and nevada. >> i always had overwhelming support my whole career. i do feel pretty confident. >> reporter: one democrat on the sidelines isn't as was on biden, michael bloomberg is inching towards a run, he is so rich spending $100 million is like an average american household spending $200 and that is what he is doing. he already committed $100 million to anti-trump ads and tv, the firm advertising analytics tweets he has done it. michael bloomberg has spent the most money of any candidate ever in a single week of political advertising. we are looking at $31 million on november 25th do december 3rd. >> i know him pretty well. he finished very weak in new york. he starts with telling you what you can drink, what you can do. >> reporter: biden and the other candidates are preparing for an onslaught from bloomberg. >> watch me. i am not in better shape than bloomberg phy

and hunter biden in ukraine.he second part i will say quickly is that hunter biden did not have any particularly sterliling qualifications to ben the board of a scandal plagued ukrainian natural gas company. you don't bring on hunter biden because he is an expert in the industry for $50,000 a month. you bring on hunter biden because his last name is s bide. ththere is an appepearance of a conflict of interest there. george kent raised that issue several years ago as he testified, that he thought it had the appearance of conflict. that is something that is worth looking at as well. it is something we have looked at and others have as well. i want to make sure that is clear, too. amy: i guess the question is, with the republicans keep on raising this during the presidential campaign because it also will remind you of president trump and his involvement in this. i want to go to ukraine special envoy kurt volker who was a witness, requested by the republicans. >> third, i did not understand that others believed in th

and that is still in joe biden's lane.o the other angle is that you have national polls and that still shows that joe biden is up there. and i think partly that's, tucker, democrats in their minds, the only thing they care about right now is beating donald trump. they don't want the most exciting candidate. they want electability. and in their minds they still think that joe biden is it. even though somebody like david axelrod, who worked for barack obama, said that he was mr. magooing his way through his answers. that's not exactly a compliment. >> tucker: no. that suggests that he is likely to walk into the side of a building by accident or something like that. and there is some evidence for that, poor guy. dana, great to see you tonight. thank you. >> great to see you, thanks. >> tucker: well, as we said, wednesday night was yet another episode in the slow motion disaster film that is joe biden's third presidential campaign. first he awkwardly promised to show domestic violence who is boss. watch this. >> no man has a r

i want to set aside biden. is it appropriate for the president of the united states. >> right. >> to have engaged in this? >> i think there is a real question whether you think the president should specifically go after one person, but there is a real question whether joe biden should have gone after one pr prosecutor. it's exactly the same question -- >> the united states -- >> let me finish. there say question about that. if it were me, i wouldn't give them the aid because we don't have the money. we have to borrow the money from china to send to ukraine. i'm against the aid and it's a mistake to do the aid so i wouldn't have played any games. it's unfair to treat trump under one standered and joe biden under another. >> i don't want why that's always used as a deflection. does that mean you think it's okay for the president to act this way? it doesn't matter what we think of joe biden. if it's wrong for this to be done -- >> it kind of does. but i i'll approach it from a different way. fairness is one angle.

i understood at the time hunter biden and vice president biden's son had been a board member -- >> i understand. but you didn't read tathat as a request to investigate the bidens at that time? i you were at two meetings at the white house where ambassador sondland raised the investigations but you didn't know it was about the bidens, and that's your testimony at the time? >> i didn't think he was talk about anything specific. >> you heard him talk about investigations, and you thought it was inappropriate, but i didn't know it was the bidens, i just thought it was inappropriate. and i guess when they were in the ward room and ambassador sondland and burisma raised biden in 2016 you misunderstood that. >> that is correct. >> and in august you spent a good part of this time with this statement with rudy giuliani. you were the guy making the change and interacting with the ukrainians. you were putting in rudy's changes which called for investigating burisma and the 2016 elections. which you now know meant bidens, right? you didn't know it at the time but now we know it. and september 1s

menendez tried it, murphy, biden. they're all trying to manipulate ukraine to get some kind of investigation, either to end an investigation or start an investigation. >> let me ask the question this way, though. if you're the average american citizen watching this, should you be concerned that the president of the united states wanted a forn government to help investigate a political rival? do you understand why some people think that is basically abusing the office for political gain to mess with the election? >> i think you're right, chuck, but i think an equal number of people are upset hillary clinton hired a british spy to hire russians to get dirt called the steele dossier, so here's hillary clinton in the middle of a campaign hiring a foreign spy agency. >> you did it again to me. you went back. i said okay, there's behavior bad over here, behavior that's bad over there. all that does is condition us for more bad behavior. when do we put a stop to it? >> what i'm asking for is they be treated equally. i think

you think they would take interest in bris ma and joe biden. subpoena hunter biden. one of the mothers of conspiracy theories is somehow the president of the united states would want a country he doesn't even like and give foreign aide to to have the ukrainians start an investigation into biden. >> so, according to to your reporting he knew more than he was letting on. what does had say about this. >> he was extremely rude to two of my colleagues who went to physically confront him. exact quote was to be perfectly clear i don't acknowledge any questions from you in this lifetime. or the next. i will say that it's interesting about this reporting, is the timing of nunes trip. he deliberately timed it. so that it fell after the midterm election and before the democrats took over the house. which meant he didn't have to disclose the details of it. >> okay. standby. i'll bring in max and john now. initial reaction to this news. >> it's not terribly surprising. frankly. because for a long time i think we have known that nunes and some of the other republicans and in the h

go after hunter biden.her wish list and they want to hear from the whistle-blower. >>> some candidates dropping out and a new candidate testing the water and may jump in. michael bloomberg preparing to enter the race for the white house. what his late arrival could mean for fellow democrats. >>> sports and politics colliding right now. president trump arriving within the last few moments in tuscaloosa, alabama, for the lsu/alabama game. his third sporting event in three weeks. the two previous ones, he was greeted with a lot of boos. how will he be greeted now? we'll be live there. >>> we begin with the latest move from republicans days before the house impeachment hearings go public. releasing their own list of witnesses republicans .to hear from. headlining the lift, hunter biden, as well as the anonymous whistle-blower. president trump weighed in recommending nancy pelosi and adam schiff and joe biden and the second whistle-blower be added to the docket. go now to nbc's kelly o'donnell live at the white

his son, hunter biden?[ bleep ]. from first word to the last word. >> did people here in ukraine, investigators like yourself, anti-corruption activists, think that shokin was doing a good job, that he was effective? >> absolutely not. shokin was corrupt, ineffective prosecutor. it was the consensus of civil society in ukraine and international partners of ukraine that shokin was a disaster for prosecutor general office, shokin has to go, he was intimidating investigators in his office. >> biden was pushing for someone who would be more aggressive, more actively looking into burisma and other companies? >> that's correct. >> giuliani is rewriting what happened. shokin was a prosecutor who was widely viewed by experts as being a holdover from the pro-moscow yanukovych era, who wasn't doing an adequate job in prosecuting burisma, the gas company, or lots of other corruption issues. and there was a general agreement that it was time to get him out. >> viktor shokin was formally let go with a vote in ukraine's

the big issue is the bidens. donald trump wasn't saying, i want you to dig up dirt on joe biden.owledged there was corruption in the ukraine. he didn't say, you got to fire 100 guys in the ukraine, and you'll get a billion dollars. you fire 50 guys or 25 guys. >> he said one guy. >> he said one guy. >> yeah, the same guy the ukrainian authorities wanted gone in all the western democracies. >> it is the one guy that was investigating the company for which -- >> he wasn't investigating the company. >> -- his son was on the board. that was the problem. >> he was. >> in fact, democrat senators suggested -- >> hold on a second. >> but you're getting it wrong, sean. >> i'm not getting it wrong. >> you are. the guy wasn't investigating burisma. that was part of the problem with him. democratic senators said you should look at burisma. >> he said he was investigating burisma. >> he's lying. that's one of the reasons that -- >> why did the ukraine parliament vote to kick him out? >> but you would agreed -- how did joe biden come up with this one person -- of all the corruption in the ukra

giuliani about investigating the bidens? >> i don't recall such a meeting. >> you don't recall such a meeting? you don't recall hearing anything about such a meeting. >> again. if you don't have firsthand knowledge. >> if i don't have record schedules, right now i don't recall anything about such a meeting. >> ambassador, in the -- is this a meeting among the ukrainians? >> it's a meeting among the ukrainians involving then president-elect zelensky, so this would have been early on in his presidency with several aids to dupsz how to handle -- discuss how to handle pressure from president trump and mr. giuliani about investigating the bidens. >> yeah, i don't recall such a meeting. >> you don't remember that. ambassador, in i believe it was the may 23rd meeting, you talked about how the president categorized ukraine, what he thought about ukraine. i believe that meeting was on may 23rd. did you ever hear president zelensky relay any concerns about you about how he felt, about how the united states viewed him, whether he was b

joe biden's now running for president. >> look, if you want to is can joe biden that at the next debatehat, fine. but again, the focus this week is on the actions that the president took. and no one is above the law, and clearly when you put your own personal and political interests above the national security of the united states, that is what the focus is this week on capitol hill. it's the republicans in the senate, the republicans in the house will, you know, will decide if they want to focus on hunter biden because they don't like the fact that his dad is running for president, fine. right now the focus is on whether or not the actions the president took constitutes impeachen offense. -- impeachable offense. ed: how is hunter biden's father who you just mentioned, how's he really doing? he goes out there and says, look, i'm till the front-runner, and yet elizabeth warren's been gaining on him, and now michael bloomberg says, you know what? he's at least suggesting i don't think biden's got this locked up, i might get in. >> no one has it locked up. 60% of the voters say that they c

election and the bidens. president zelensky says he'll pursue these investigations right after he mentions the white house visit. is that your understanding, ambassador taylor, of what we just read? >> yes. >> and, mr. kent, is that yours? >> yes. >> i yield back. >> the majority time has expired. would you gentlemen like a brief recess? let's take a five-minute recess and then resume with majority questioning. >> i can say it's hearsay because that's the testimony i just came out from. they said, i believe, i thought i heard. this is what was conveyed to me. all -- >> morrison -- >> you were asking the question. i was going to answer your question. you want me to answer your question? okay, all right. so, in doing that, when they ask the question, every time that it gets close to the president of the united states, it is very clear, there is no conditionality as it relates to what the -- why the aid was held. so, i think that we're consistent with that and that's what we continue to hear. >> he said very cle

he was interested in the bidens. you also testified that, masterson latold you that president trump wants zelensky in a public box. >> does it mean that private statements, private promises to do the investigation were not enough. ha you had to go on tv and because the president wanted him in that box. is that your understanding? >> mr. chairman, i don't know what he had in mind, i am not sure what ambassador dosondlandn mind. >> the implications needed to be public as posed to be a private assuran assurance. >> and i think you said in that same call, you asked ambassador sondland to push back on president's demand, is that correct? >> that's correct. sir. >> you understand from your conversation with sondland, this was the president's demands. not sondland's demand. you wanted some land to push back, am i right? >>. >> so ambassador sondland is clearly able to have dfrgs with the the president. i thought the psh on another president, president zelensky was not a good idea. i suggested in that phone call with ambassa

and i do understand that with biden neither. why can't biden be investigated?under the circumstances. i mean, was there money being given to burisma to increase gas outage or more gas coming out of ukraine because of biden's son being on the board? >> host: we lost joan but scott, jump in more hunter b biden, what else should we add in? >> guest: simply the idea that president trump was not talking about corruption in general, he was talking specifically about joe biden and hunter biden, joe biden being at that time a person that he perceived as the biggest threat to his reelection. the argument from democrats is that taxpayer money should not be used to try to force a foreign government toul investigate your chief political rival. that's essentially putting their argument in the simplest of terms. at thisre looking through their own lens, whether it was appropriate for hunter biden to be accepting this money. certainly folks inid the press have had concerns about that themselves, but the question remains, if turning back to impeachment and president trump, the

taxpayer aid went to prisma while joe biden was in charge of aiden hunter biden was on the board.on must be investigated precisely because joe biden is running for president and can only be answered with help from the ukraine government. he has a client to pay rudy half a million dollars. he was arrested here last month for allegedly trying to bribe a congressman to push for the investor of ukraine for blocking a business deal he was involved with. when he was arrested he was about to board a flight to vienna where the billionaire who started all this demetri is holed up. what is the connection? he was being paid. [inaudible] if your head is spinning from all this, let me explain how it relates to impeachment. when former ukraine envoy kurt testified last month he's president trump expressed a negative view of ukraine in part because rudy giuliani told him they meddled in the 2016 election trying to take him down. on top of the long-standing skepticism and belief that europe should pay more, it's no wonder he wanted to stop the eight. as we now know and the democrats won't admit b