that is really intriguing the investigations surrounding burisma stock, and burisma's reputation around ukraine is low, and it was dubious even before this impeachment inquiry raised it to new attention. let's face it, according to ukranian sources, burisma is not on everyone's front burner in ukraine. but it is here. because we were providing hundreds of millions of dollars to tukraine in foreign aid. and this president said, we need to stop corruption. he mentions specifically the corruption he had heard about. is that impeachable? no. it's asking for an investigation to get to the bottom of it because you do not get immunity just because your father is running for public office. just because anyone related to you is running for public office. and i will tell you, this president has done a remarkable job in spite of three years of constant harassment by the democrats of this body and the media on the left of this country. we have a great economy. he's trying to bring order to the border. we have more people working than ever before. this president has restored the military and actuall

kent, can one of their witnesses from the first day, also gave testimony that burisma, the head of burisma had stolen $23 million in the u.s. and the u.k. and that he paid a bribe to get off the hook. again, it's not as if burisma is pulling out new plays. their playbook is to do dirty stuff and then pay bribes and hire the people necessary to make those problems go away. this is why the minority hearing issue is so important. you wonder why republicans are so angry we didn't have a hearing with our own witnesses and own evidence. you may wonder if they feel so good about their case, why did they block our ability to put in evidence? we have the ability to show that burisma is corrupt. we have the ability to show hunter biden is corrupt, and that totally exculpate the president. there is no way in the united states of america that honestly pursuing actual corruption is impeachable. that's why i have offered the amendment and i encourage my colleagues to vote for it. >> mr. chairman, i withdraw my point of order. >> mr. chairman. >> the gentleman yields back. for what purposes? >> i move to

it's not as if burisma is pulling out new plays. their playbook is to do dirty stuff and go and pay bribes and hire the people necessary. you wonder why republicans are so angry and you may wonder why if they feel so good about their case why did they block our ability to put in evidence? we have the ability to show that burisma is corrupt. that hunter biden is corrupt and that exculpates the president because there is no way in the united states of america that honestly pursuing actual corruption is an impeachable offense. that's why i i offer the amendmt and i encourage my colleagues to vote for it. >> mr. chairman, i withdraw my point of order. >> mr. chairman. >> the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does mr. johnson -- >> i rise in opposition to this amendment and i would say that the pot calling the kettle black is not something we should do. i don't know -- [ laughter ] i don't know what members, if any, have had problems with substanceha abuse, been busted r dui, i don't know. butdu if i did, i wouldn't rais it against

because we have the ability to show that burisma is corrupt. we have the ability to show that hunter biden is corrupt. that totally exculpates the president because there is no way in the united states of america that honestly pursuing actual corruption is an impeachable offense. that's why i offer the amendment and i encourage my colleagues to vote for it. >> mr. chairman, i withdraw my point of order. >> mr. chairman. >> the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does mr. johnson seek recognition? >> i move to strike the last word. >> the gentleman is recognized. >> mr. chairman, i rise in opposition to this amendment and i would say that the pot calling the kettle black is not something that we should do. i don't know what members, if any, have had any problems with substance abuse, be busted in dui, i don't know, but if i did i wouldn't raise it against anyone on this committee. i don't think it's proper. you know, i think we got to get back down to what is most important here. this is a question that stands out like a big throbbing sore t

hunter biden had been on the board of burisma going back to 2014, correct? >> yes. >> president trump supported ukraine with aid and otherwise in both 2017 and 2018, correct? >> president trump has done a lot for ukraine.

how to report the biden-burisma story. i don't know. maybe just tell the truth. maybe dig up facts and verify them. joining me now, the media research center's bret bozell. facts like to that the prosecutor was fired at the demand of joe biden is on record saying he was fired because his investigators were closing in on burisma and hunter biden. that might be a tidbit of fact that jeffrey toobin and others shut report. >> what he really is asking, if the media should be covering this. they are upset the republicans are bringing this up. they are having to cover the republicans live. when it has been up to them, they haven't said a thing. whatever happens to this notion of investigative journalism? the idea you would write this piece and dismiss it as an appearance. why not do something interesting. do you realize everyone talk about this, why don't they just ask hunter biden. how is it hunter bind that you went with your dad on a plane and left with a $50,000 a month contract. the republicans are all asking this question. what did you do? why isn't jeffrey toobin

castor, was there an announcement by president zelensky about investigating the bidens or burisma? >> no. >> no announcement? >> no. >> did president zelensky get a call from presidentnt trump? >> yes. >> did president zelensky get a meeting with president trump? >> yes. >> did president zelensky get the money from the united states? >> yes. >> they got the call on july 25th. they got the money on september 11th. they got the meeting on september 25th. is that right? >> yes. >> but the guy who said none of that was going to happen is the guy they build their case around. is that right? mr. sondland. >> yep. >> let me go to one other thing they built their case around. they built their case around a lot of hearsay, didn't they? and the best example of the hearsay, surprisingly enough, is ambassador sondland. it's amazing. built their case around this ambassador and built their case around hearsay. and the best example ofnd both mr. sondland. because he filed his addendum where he says this. pointed this out s a couple wee ago. bullet point number two. in his clarification, he says a

kent, again, one of their witnesses, also gave testimony that burisma had -- that the head of burisma had stolen $23 million in the u.s. and uk and he paid a describe to get off the hook. again, it's not as if burisma is pulling out new playing. their playbook is to do dirty stuff and pay bribes and hire people necessary to make those problems go away. this is why the minority hearing issue is so important, by the way. you wonder why republicans are so angry we didn't have our own hearing. why did they block our ability to put in evidence? it's because we have the ability to show that burisma is corrupt. we have the ability to show that hunter biden is corrupt. and that totally exculpates the president. because there is no way in the united states of america that honestly pursuing actual corruption is an impeachable offense. that's why i offer the amendment and i encourage my colleagues to vote for it. >> i withdraw my point of order. >> mr. chairman? >> the gentleman yields back. for what purposes does mr. johnson seek recognition? >> i move to strike the last word. i rise in opposit

was there an announcement by president zelensky about investigating the bidens or burisma? no announcement. looking to get a call from president trump. a meeting with president trump? did president zelensky get the money from the united states? they got the call on july 25th, they got the money on september 11th, they got that meeting on september 25th, is that right? but that's the guy they built their case around. is that right? one other thing they built their case around, a lot of hearsay. and that is ambassador sondland, built a case around this ambassador and built a case around hearsay and the best example of both is ambassador sondland because he filed his addendum where he said this, we have read this a couple of weeks ago. pointed this out a couple of weeks ago, bullet point number two in his clarification, he said ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told ambassador taylor that i told mr. morrison that i conveyed that message to yermak in connection with vice president pence's meeting in warsaw. that's his clarification. amazing, six people having four con

burisma brought hunter biden on as part of a broad effort by burisma to bring e in well-connected i democrats duri a period when the company was facing investigations backed not just by check ukrainian forces but by officials in the obama administration. george kent testified about these efforts. hunter biden reportedly received between 50,000 and $83,000 a month as compensation for his position on burisma's board. at the time that hunter biden joined the board, his father, the former vp, was the obama administration's point person for ukraine. biden has no specific corporate governance expertise and we don't believe e he speaks ukrainian or russian. we don't believe he moved there. so he's getting this gigantic paycheck for what? the "washington post" wrote at the timee of biden's appointme to burisma's board that it looklook looked nepotism at best and nefarious at worst. according to the "wall street journal," anti-corruption activists in ukraine also raised concerns that the former vp's son received money and worried that would mean he would be protected and not prosecuted. witnesses in t

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as compensation for his position on burisma's board. at the time that hunter biden joined the board, his father, the former vp, was the obama administration's point person. for ukraine. biden has no specific governance expertise and we don't believe he speaks ukrainian or russian. we don't believe he moved there. so he's getting this gigantic paycheck for what? the washington potion wrote at the time of biden's appointment to burisma's board that it look looked nepotismic at best. according to "the wall street journal," anti-corruption activists in ukraine also raised concerns that the former vp's son received money from zlochevsky. witnesses in the impeachment inquiry noted hunter biden's role on the board and how it presented at minimum a conflict of interest. lieutenant colonel vindman testified hunter biden appeared not qualified to serve on burisma's board. witnesses testified that hunter biden's role on the board was a legitimate concern to raise in fact, george kent explained in 2015 he raised a concern to the office of former vi

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gull was burisma. he was expressing the desire to the president of the united states and we knew these investigations were important to the president. on a call, president zelensky himself recognized the collection between the meeting and the investigations. and he said, i also want to thank you for your ichbtation to visit the united states, specifically washington, d.c. on the other hand i want to ensure you we'll try to be very serious about the case and will work on the investigation. and the president spoke in that call about the bidens and burisma. the omb ultimately announces that the aid was withheld is no explanation, and everyone in the ent jens community, all the national security team, all recommend the release of the aid. this was an important ally with the united states facing a war with the -- and was it was killing people in eastern ukraine. we were a lifeline. the only people who benefitted from this scheme, president trump because he thought he was going to get an announcement to spea

burisma. this is the keyword for biden. you can think of burisma as the word biden. it is the company that basically the vice president's son had been on board of and that's the center of the effort to investigate the bidens, which this report alleges was a quid pro quo deal that donald trump wanted to do to help him win re-election. what has been added here in the giuliani edits, which come right after these incriminating contacts with the money office and everything else we mentioned is quote, let's include those involved in burisma and the 2016 elections. this is bad for the white house because this goes beyond what any individual witness has said and we see it up here on the screen on the lower right hand of the screen, you can see a better version of the copy and the understood line in black. >> so giuliani and sondland added this. >> correct. this again goes to did you want to clean up corruption in certain part of the world r or were you going after the bidens and when you had a statement on the left that talked about just cleaning up corruption, it says quote

how to report the biden-burisma story. i don't know. maybe just tell the truth. maybe dig up facts and verify them. joining me now, the media research center's bret bozell. facts like to that the prosecutor was fired at the demand of joe biden is on record saying he was fired because his investigators were closing in on burisma and hunter biden. that might be a tidbit of fact that jeffrey toobin and others shut report. >> what he really is asking, if the media should be covering this. they are upset the republicans are bringing this up. they are having to cover the republicans live. when it has been up to them, they haven't said a thing. whatever happens to this notion of investigative journalism? the idea you would write this piece and dismiss it as an appearance. why not do something interesting. do you realize everyone talk about this, why don't they just ask hunter biden. how is it hunter bind that you went with your dad on a plane and left with a $50,000 a month contract. the republicans are all asking this question. what did you do? why isn't jeffrey toobin

castor, is this the same prosecutor that looked into burisma? >> it is. >> in a similar scheme, obama's assistant attorney general said, and i quote, awarding prestigious employment opportunities to unqualified individuals in order to influence government officials is corruption. plain and simple. mr. castor, here's another key question. given that, one, burisma had the reputation of being a corrupt company, obama's own state department was concerned about hunter biden serving on burisma's board at the same time that vice president biden was acting as point person, and three, obama's assistant attorney general said in a similar scheme that the corruption, there is corruption plain and simple, do you think then it is understandable, reasonable, and acceptable for president trump to ask ukrainian president to look into the hunter biden/burisma's potential corruption scheme? >> yes. >> mr. castor, there are four are disputable facts that will never change that prove there is no in impeachable offense, no quid pro quo on the july 25th call, ukraine

there is still allegations of corruption against burisma -- >> he didn't say investigate burisma. see he didn't say investigate burisma or the corrupt companies in your country. he said investigate joe and hunter biden. there is no secret about that. but i know you want to talk about afghanistan and we agreed thisn this interest view. do you want to talk about afghanistan or not because -- >> absolutely. i mean, the whole thing, as we should talk about important things instead of wasting our time on partisanship. >> i don't know that impeaching the president is a waste of time in terms of discussing it. >> it has nothing to do with the facts. >> i want to get your view because you want to talk about on the stunning report on "the washington post" from afghanistan that found u.s. officials misled the american people by publicly saying that they were making progress in afghanistan even though they knew they were not. we are three years in the trump presidency and there are more service members in afghanistan and the middle east now when donald trump took office. do you think your fo

as compensation for his position on burisma's board. at the time the hunter biden joined the board his father, the former vp, was the obama administration point person for ukraine. biden has no specific court writ government expertise and we don't believe he speaks ukrainian or russian, we don't believe he moved there. so he's getting this gigantic paycheck for what? the washington post wrote at the time of his appointment to burisma's board it was nepotistic at best and the washington post said nefarious at worst. according to the wall street journal, anticorruption activist in ukraine also raised concerns that the former vp son received money and worried that that would mean that he would be protected and not prosecuted. witnesses and the impeachment inquiry noted hunter biden's role on the board. and how it presented at minimum a conflict of interest. lieutenant colonel vindman testified the hunter biden did not appear qualified to serve on burisma's board. witnesses testified the hunter biden's role on the board was a legitimate con

castor, is this the same prosecutor that looked into burisma? >> it is. >> the assistant attorney general said and i quote, emolument opportunities to unqualified individuals in order to influence government officials is corruption, plain and simple. mr. castor, here is another key question. given that, one, burisma had a reputation of being a corrupt company, two, obama's own state department was concerned about hunter biden serving on burisma board at the same time that vice president biden was acting as the point person to ukraine, and, three, obama's assistant attorney general said in a similar scheme what that -- that corruption -- that there was corruption plain and simple, do you think then it is understandable, reasonable, and acceptable for president trump to ask the ukrainian president to look into the hunter biden/burisma potential corruption scheme? >> yes. >> mr. castor, there are four undisputable facts that will never change that prove there is no impeachable offense. there was no quid pro quo on the july 25th call. ukraine leader

hunter biden had been on the board of burisma going back to 2014, correct? >> yes. >> president trump supported ukraine with aid and otherwise in both 2017 and 2018, correct? >> president trump has done a lot for ukraine. >> yes. but sir, isn't it correct that president trump did not raise anything about hunter bid skpn his 2017 or 2018. he donnell thiidn't raise any o issues in 2017 or 2018? >> i don't know that he did or he didn't. that's not something we looked at. >> you have no evidence that he did, do you? >> no, but i have no efvidence e did not. this video is pretty remarkable. >> you talked about lieutenant colonel vindman who is a highly decorated purple heart recipient and worked in the trump administration, correct? >> yes, sir. >> he had a reaction to the call, didn't he? >> he did. >> he was listening to it, correct? >> he was. >> let's look at his reaction. he said, i immediately went to john eisen beberg, the lead leg counsel. he said it is improper for the president of the united states to demand a foreign government investigate a u.s. citiz

to the witnesses that testified before the committee, the references to burisma was shorthand for an investigation into the bidens. bods bolton as well as his staff members objected to this meeting for an investigations trade and ambassador bolton told dr. hill you go and tell eisenberg that i am not part of whatever drug deal sondland and mulvaney are cooking up on this. and you go ahead and tell him what you have heard and what i have said. yet, this was not a rogue operation by mr. giuliani and ambassador sondland and volker. as ambassador sondland testified, everyone was in the loop, including mr. mulvaney, secretary pompeo, secretary perry, and their top advisors. on july 19th, ambassador sondland emailed mr. mulvaney, secretary perry, secretary pompeo and others after speaking to president zelensky. the subject was, i talked to zelensky just now. and ambassador sondland wrote, he is prepared to receive potus's call. potus is president of the united states. we'll assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will, quote, turn over every stone, unquote.

hunter and joe biden had a direct financial stake in avoiding an investigation of burisma. of course this is just obvious, everybody can see it. there was an article in the "new york times" that was published in may 2019 stated the following about the ukrainian prosecutor's ouster, among those with a stake in the outcome was hunter biden. of course joe biden had a personal interest in avoiding a political scandal involving his son. clearly, a requested informational investigation into biden's dealings was justified as an informational investigation into an abuse of power by the previous administration. but of course if president trump's requestedand it ends up president donald j. trump. that's the reason they won't ep eaccept the amendment but it's why everyone of us looking at the facts objectively has a obligation to do it. i have a minute and a half left. let me correct something else in the record. we may be a while doing that. my good friend said before the break at some point before the break .the ukrainians up in about the hold onnedet aid. but the fact is they didn'

should not be ignored. >> it is a little hard to believe that burisma, hired hunter biden to resolve their international disputes when he could not resolve his own dispute with hertz rental car over leaving crack copai cocaina pipe in the car. reporter: the ukraine energy company burisma saying, corrupt hiring hobb -- saying say. >> all they talked about is bidens, hunter biden automobile accident. hunter biden this and that, hunter biden salary, their defense speaks to truth of the allegations in this article that it was all about the bidens, they are all about the bidens that is what it's about. reporter: we're expecting judiciary commit to adopt both articles of impeachment on part line vote. they will vote on house floor next week also --o capitol hill, house and senate have been negotiating behind closed-doors to keep government open before funding runs out december 20. they have essentially made a deal in principle on 12 different appropriation bills, they are still finalizing a few. elizabeth: thank you so much. >> next up, house judiciary chair eedthatternadler echoing e nang

castor, was there an announcement by president zelensky about investigating the bidens or burisma?>> no. >> no announcement? >> no. >> did president zelensky get a call from president trump? >> yes. >> did president zelensky get a meeting with president trump? >> yes. >> did president zelensky get the meeting with the united states? >> yes. >> got the call july 25th. they got the meeting on september 25th. is that right? >> yes. >> the guy who sid noaid none ot is going to happen is the guy they built their case around? >> yes. >> is that right? mr. sondland? >> they built their case around a lot of hearsay, didn't they? the best example of the hearsay, surprisingly enough, is ambassador sondland. it's amazing. built a case around this ambassador and built a case around hearsay and the best example of both is mr. sondland. ambassador sondland because he filed his addendum, his clarification, where he say s this. we read this a couple weeks ago. he says this in bullet point number 2, in his clarification, he says "ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told ambassador taylor th

lieutenant colonel vindman said hunter biden did not appear qualified to serve on burisma's board. witnesses testified that hunter biden's role on the board was a legitimate concern to raise. in fact, george kent explained that in 2015, he raised a concern to the office of former vice president biden, that hunter biden's role on burisma's board presented a potential conflict of interest. however, hunter biden's role did not change and former vice president biden continued to lead u.s. policy in ukraine. on this record, there is a legitimate basis for president trump to have concern about hunter biden's role on burisma's board. the prospect that some senior ukrainian officials worked against president trump in the run-up to the 2,016 election draws an even more visceral reaction from most democrats. let me say very, very clearly that election interference is not binary. i am not saying that it was ukraine and not russia. i am saying that both countries can work to influence an election. a systemic coordinated russian interference effort does not mean that some ukrainian officials di

giuliani specifically mentioned the 2016 election, including the dnc server, and burisma as two topics to the president. >> i mean, david, they explicitly say that diant happen, he didn't have rudy giuliani doing this and it had nothing to do with burisma, biden, or ukrainian influence. here it is, talk to giuliani about ukrainian influence and burisma. >> i think a lot of their argument comes down to what was the president's intent. versus what other people thought it was or opinions of others on what the president actually wanted. i think it's so clear based on the president's own words in the july 25th phone call, the sound bite you played from the south lawn. the fact that he's the president of the united states, and he's got a newly elected leader who is completely beholden to the united states for existential aid to fight russia on its eastern front, that you will do what the president suggests you should do, and it was to get dirt on biden. all of that is painfully clear. but we're not operating in a court of law. you know, i feel like these reports are meticulously written lega

what did burisma stand for? all your witnesses said they had an understanding. mr. goldman: every witness said, after reading the phone call, it was clear burisma equaled joe biden. there were only two witnesses who said they did not know that until that time. there was a lot of testimony from people involved in all aspects of ukraine policy who indicated that it was unrealistic and unlikely that anyone who had anything to do thatukraine would not know the burisma investigation related to the bidens. >> that is how giuliani referred to it, as burisma and joe biden? mr. goldman: correct. >> did the ukrainians complained that they did not want to be a pawn in u.s. democratic politics by helping mr. trump's reelection campaign? mr. goldman: they said that in july and in august they did not give the statement because they had reservations given that president zelensky was an anticorruption reformer. they had reservations about engaging in u.s. domestic politics. >> i want to go back to mr. castor. you said when president trump ond to ambassador sondland september 17 tha

castor, is this the same prosecutor that looked into burisma? >> it is.me >> in a similar scheme, obama assistant attorney general said, and i quote, awarding prestigious employment opportunities to unqualified individuals in order to influence government officials is corruption, plain and simple. mr. castor, here is another key question. given that, one, burisma had a reputation of being a corrupt company. two, obama's own state department was concerned about hunter biden serving on burisma's board at the same time thatd vice president biden was acting as the point person to ukraine. and, three, obama's assistant attorney general said in a similar scheme that -- that corruption -- that there was corruption plain and simple. do you think, then, it is understandable, reasonable, and acceptable for president trump to ask the ukrainian president to look into the hunter biden/burisma potential corruption scheme? >> yes. >> mr. castor, there are four undisputable facts that will never change. that prove there is no impeachable offense. t there was no

short time later, zero experience hunter was hired to serve on the part of it burisma holdings. corrupt oil and gas giant. he was paid millions and millions of dollars. zero experience. zero experience in gas, zero experience in energy, zero experience in ukraine. 0 for 3. instead of experience, hunter was pedaling access. it turns out, it was a great advancement for burisma because a 2016, hunter biden and his company, they face a corruption investigation by ukraine's top prosecutor. who came to the rescue? daddy. joe biden. the vice president demanding and prosecuted and you can be fired. why would that ever happen? joe biden actually leveraged and brags about leveraging a billion u.s. tax dollars in aid to get a prosecutor in ukraine fired. why? because he was told by "the new york times" and others that they can without prosecutor, was investigating hayes zero experience on that is being paid millions. remember, vice president biden bragg, told the president ofve ukraine, getting on a plane is six hours. you are not getting a billion dollars. you are not going to get it.go y

during that period before biden burisma.oney going to hunter biden was hired by burisma to protect them. prosecutor was fired on the basis of biden withholding money. that is horrible in my view. want toy guest does not talk about the basis for the impeachment inquiry. host: we will get an answer. guest: let's talk about it. president trump, as his allies , was highly interested in what hunter biden was doing, as someone who was paid about $50,000 a month to work for burisma, a ukrainian energy company. his relationship with that company, his business work in amid biden being in office has been of interest to president trump. his interest in what played out there and why the prosecutor was fired, what hunter biden was -- how vice president biden handled the ukrainian relationship at the time, it has animated the president. because of that, in the summer of 2019, he is building this relationship with president zelensky of ukraine and he wants to hear more about what the bidens were doing. in pursuit of that goal, encouraged by rudy giuliani, he has this phone call with president zelensky

burisma and biden. did the ukrainians complained repeatedly that they didn't want to be a pond in us democratic politics by helping donald trump's reelection campaign? >> they did in july and august, they didn't get the statement in large part because they had reservation because when anticorruption reformer, they had reservations about domestic politics. >> i want to get back to mister castor, you said when donald trump said to ambassador sondland that he had no quid pro quo you said he had no reason, september 9th, no reason to be any less than candid. that's what you said. let me show you what happened on september 5th, slide 52. days before he made the statement the washington post rented an article that says trump tries to force ukraine to metal in the 2020 elections and goes on to describe those efforts and let me show you whether donald trump was aware of that article before he volunteered, no quid pro quo as a defense, a tweet by donald trump on slide 53. and again this, he is putting out a twee

but for former vice president joe biden, burisma is a sore spot.. >> what's your understanding of what son was doing for an extraordinary amount of money? >> i don't know what he was doing. i know he was on the board. i found out he was on the board after he was on the board and that was it and there's nobody -- >> not a lot of time, isn't there something you want to get to the bottom of? >> no. i trust my son. if you want to talk about problems, let's talk about trump's family. come on. >> after separating from his wife of 24 years, hunter biden began dating the widow of his brother who died in 2015. it was during that time that hunter biden met lunden roberts at a strip club he frequented. he initially denied fathering the child until a paternity test confirmed it was him. lunden roberts wants hunter biden to reimburse her for the dna test and provide child support. >> martha: thank you very muc much. the biden campaign pushing back on a political report that biden has signaled that he would serve only one term if he was electedn 2020. quoting an

liz: these former obama officials reportedly met with burisma lobbiests in 2015 an 2016.eportedly senator lindsey graham has been talking about timing of those meetings and the pressure campaign that followed in which joe biden reportedly demanded ukraine fire its top prosecutor who at the time was looking into burisma for corruption. joe biden has denied acting with his son's interests in mind. your reaction to that? >> there is no question in december of 2015 "the new york times" reported that victor shukin prosecutor general, equivalent of their attorney general in ukraine was investigating burisma and the president and founder. in february of 2016 they raided his home and seized his assets immediately after that burisma's lobbyists is trying to get high-level meetings at the state department, invoking hunter biden's name. vice president biden is on the phone repealedly with victor poroshenko. victoria knew lynn demands poroshenko be fired. show kin is fired and sign an ad an affidavit when he was let go he was told the reason he was let go is because the bidens were u

roberts and her lawyers want more than the documents from his time on the board of burisma, where hedly earned $50,000 a month. they also want information about money, biden, or his various investment firms gained from china. biden's connection to burisma is what initially led the democrats impeachment case, but a former polish president on the board of burisma said last month that biden was indeed placed on the board because of his last name, saying that is how business works. biden met am lunden roberts at a strip club frequented. he initially denied fathering her child until a paternity test confirmed it was, in fact him, sean. >> sean: wow, pillar of the community, trace, thank you. this impeachment sham is boomeranging on the bidens. congressman, we go to texas, dan bongino and geraldo rivera. you are new to the group so we will let you go first. s >> hunter is in some really deep kimchi, as we used to say in the army. these records are going to come out, and regardless of whether he comes to testify on capitol hill, we will have access to a lot of information about burisma and

>> yes, what did burisma stand for? >> all your witnesses say, did the witnesses say that. >> every single witness said after reading the phone call on julyph 25th that it was clear burisma equalled biden, they were one and the same. there were only one or two witnesses who said they did not know that at that time and there was ample testimonies, a lot of people involved of all aspects of ukraine policies who indicated it was unrealistic and unlikely that anyone who had anything to do with ukraine would not know that burisma investigations related to the bidens. they said that in july and in august ultimately they did not give the statement in large part because they had reservations given president zelensky was anticorruption reformer, they had reservations about engaging in u.s. domestic politics. >> you said he had no quid pro quo and he had no reason. >> he had no reason to be any less than candid. that's what you said. no reason to be less than candid. what happened though on septemberap 5th? >> let me show you a s

how was he going to do on ap debate stage with president trump when he is challenged with burisma, withw obama's own state department had concerns, they pressed ambassador yovanovitch about burisma -- john kerry who was secretary of state that time, his own stepson raised concerns about burisma, the state department officials, how is joe biden going to do when he's actually pressed on thisis issue? >> tucker: we don't even know what hunter biden was paid for the iranians. >> he is not the only person who was challenged on the campaign trail as well, there was an event recently in iowa -- in south bend, rather, it was african-american supporters of pete buttigieg and look what happened. [shouting] [shouting] this is ath farce! >> those are black lives matter protesters who were at an event for african-americans for pete buttigieg, the campaign is distancing themselves from theat event saying they aren't affiliated despite the fact that they put up a press release saying there were numerous staffers at the event including his own campaign manager, nonetheless this comes on the heels of --

he brags about how he got the ukrainian prosecutor fired while investigating burisma.remind you is the corrupt ukrainian company that hired hunter biden. joe biden's son. to serve on their board at the very same time that vice president biden was the point man to ukraine. joe biden says he told ukraine he wouldn't give them $1 billion if they didn't fire the prosecutor. he said, and i quote, the prosecutor is not fired, you are not getting the money. put yourself in president trump's shoes. he has seen or heard about the video of joe biden bragging about how he got the prosecutor fired, the same prosecutor that had been investigating the same corrupt company where biden's son got a cushy spot on the board getting paid at least $50,000 a month at the same time that joe biden while serving as vice president was the point man to ukraine. my democratic colleagues seem convinced that the president was targeting biden to influence the 2020 election. that is their main premise of these articles of impeachment. but it is just as likely, and i would say more likely that preside

so hunter biden engaged in no crimes regarding of sitting in the board of burisma. hunter biden's position on the board would have been eliminated along with his $50,000 a month payment. that was his stake and the potential prosecution involving the company. ev even the former acting general under president obama said the following. is what hunter biden did wrong? absolutely. hunter biden had no real experience which made him unqualified to sit on the board of burisma. the only logical reason a company could have is pointing h i his tide. no politicians from either party should allow a foreign power to conduct this kind of influence peddling with their family members. lieutenant vindman was asked would it be u.s. policy to ask a foreign leader to open a foreign policy. american media and others were asking questions of hunter bi n biden's involvement with ukraine. is house impeachment and covering up his administration involvement in a crime of nixon's criminal acts, including tape recording of the cover up after the affair. >> it is. >> the house impeach clinton fo

castor, is this the same prosecutor that looked into burisma? >> it is. >> in a similar scheme, obama assistant attorney general said -- and i quote -- awarding prestigious employment opportunities to unqualified individuals in order to influence government officials is corruption, plain and simple. mr. castor, here is another key question. given that, one, burisma had a reputation of being a corrupt company, two, obama's own state department was concerned about hunter biden serving on burisma's board at the same time that vice president biden was acting as the point person to ukraine, and three, obama's assistant attorney general said in a similar scheme that there was corruption, plain and simple. do you think then it is understandable, reasonable and acceptable for president trump to ask the ukrainian president to look into the hunter biden/burisma potential corruption scheme? >> yes. >> mr. castor, there are four indisputable facts that will never change that prove there is no impeachable offense. there was no quid pro quo on the july 25 cal

and what did burisma stand for? all your witnesses said they have an understanding what that meant. >> every single witness said after reading the phone call on july 25th that it was clear burisma equaled biden, that they were one of the same. there were only two witnesses who said they did not know that until that time and there was ample testimony, a lot of testimony from people involved in all aspects of ukraine policy who indicated that it was completely unrealistic and unlikely that anyone who had anything to do with ukraine would not know that the burisma investigation related to the bidens. >> and that is how mr. giuliani public referred to it as burisma and vice president biden. did the ukrainians complained repeatedly that they didn't want to be a pond in u.s. democratic politics by helping president trump's reelection campaign by making such a statement? >> they said that in july and august ultimately didn't get the statement in large part because they had reservations given that president zelensky was an

under president obama there were concerns about the bidens' relationship with this company, burisma, even so much so when ambassador yovanovitch was being prepared for her confirmation hearing there were concerns at the time. this president, right or wrongly, has concerns about what happened in 2016 and ukraine's involvement. if you listen to the call and read the call transcript, 2016 was referenced directly. that is -- of all the things we've heard, that is one of the facts that can't be disputed and so whether that's right or not, whether the president should be looking into the past, 2016, that's certainly open to conjecture. but if it was important for the obama administration to look into ukraine and what happened with burisma, i don't understand why it's so problematic for this president to do this and this is an important point. some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle would like to move that concern with what happened to 2016 to 2020. but there's nothing in the call and zero factual basis to conflate 2016 with 2020. that's all rhetoric. that's all conjecture. tha

hunter in the millions he's making sitting on a board of the corrupt ukrainian oil and gas giant burisma holding all while his father, the vice president of the united states served as the obama administration's point person on all things ukraine. you have to watch you watch by it and viciously voter for asking what the media mob should be asking, a very important question. >> didn't work for a gas company that he had no experience with. you are selling excess just like he is. >> you are a liar, man. that's not true but no one has ever said that. i know you do, and that's why i am not sedentary, i get up. let him go. let him go. the reason i'm running is because i've been around a long time and i know more than most people know and i can get things done. that's why i'm running. you want to check my shape on it, let's do push-ups, do whatever you want to do. no one has said my son have anything wrong and no one has ever said it. you said i set up my son to work in an oil company. isn't that what you said? get your words straight, jack. you don't do that on msnbc. look, here's the deal. >>

, his sons connection to burisma, has not been sufficiently investigated?ow the answer to that question, i always err on the side of wanting to know more, whether we talking about a democrat or republican, i just think the way this whole thing played out is really ironic given that joe biden's original goal, he said was that he wouldn't want to do that because it would take the coverage off of the trump impeachment trial and by saying he wouldn't comply at first, that's exactly what he did, that's what everyone is talking about, why not, why wouldn't you? so he has to reverse course. but i think that may be the isn't on him, he could have handled it a lot better. everyone's talking about this and not trump which is what he wanted to avoid in the first place. i don't see any reason why he shouldn't. >> heather: richard, elizabeth warren has jumped in and said listen, he should. do you think that's why he reversed course? and do you think the presidential candidate, his rivals, do they have an incentive in pressuring him, maybe a little bit on this? >> richar

it was george kent who said we were so worried about burisma our own embassy had to pull out of a public private. >> lindsey graham issued a stark warning to house democrats. >> wae're not going to turn the senate into a circus. i will tell schiff what you're doing is very dangerous for separation of power. adam schiff is doing a lot of danger to the country, and he needs to stop. mueller spent two years looking at trump. this whole ukrainian stuff is a joke. they got the money. they got the meeting with the president. they didn't investigate joe biden or hunter biden. there is no there there. >> and defense secretary mark esper declined to answer whether he was aware of any political consideration regarding the trump administration's hold of nearly 400 million in u.s. security aid to ukraine. >> you were the secretary of defense this past summer when a lot of these actions were going down with with regard to ukraine. did president trump ever explain to you, tell you why he was holding up u.s. military aid to ukraine, an ally that was and is in a current war with russia. >> i'm not going

concern was a real concern, about hunter biden, and corruption, and there is a connection between burisma biden and corruption, then the president will argue that my article two power as the chief law enforcement agent for the entire country overrides the fact that i might have also gotten some benefit from investigating hunter biden. i have been saying for a long time, it is an argument that i don't think a lot of people will buy. i see from your expression that you're not really buying it. and i tend to agree with you. but that is -- >> then go to the fbi. >> but they've closed off every other escape hatch, and this is where the defense is leading to. it is leading to, i was warranted in doing it. because he has already made the admission in his statement that he adopted as his own, that he asked for an investigation, and he asked for someone to look into hunter biden. and so the only escape hatch is that hunter biden was in fact, a corruption threat. the problem is, it is just not credible that it just so happens that hunter biden is a corruption concern and greatly benefit trump's ele

he said in january, february 2015 -- he became aware that hunter biden on board of burisma holdingshile his father joe biden was overseeing ukraine policy at vept and they sent him away, the vice president bereaving over passing of elder son they said so nobody brings it up with the vice president nonetheless the vice president intervenes. hey i have a theory that democrats like theories. they like to connect the dot you guy and journalism in legal analyst you pay attention too. maybe they put hunter biden on that bris ma board which is largest one of the largest in a corrupt country. even though he had no background for any of it. maybe they wanted to buy influence because obama administration would not give the government the military and observancive armorment necessary to defend themselves against russian. why don't they look into that? sounds like a perfectly logical point and president of the united states said you guy might want to look into it. what in the hell was wrong with that? and he also said you might want to talk to attorney general about it so he's going to commit a

>> so the "new york times" is saying this, show kin was not aggressively pursuing a case against burisma. his dismissal had been sought by others in the obama administration as well as other western governments and international leaders. shokin had been repeatedly accused of turning a blind eye to corruption in his office, and amongst the ukrainian political elite and criticized for failing to bring corruption cases. senator cruz yesterday also mischaracterized president trump's july 25th phone call with the leader of ukraine. >> there's a difference between foreign interference of the kind russia did, which was hacking into the election creating fraudulent bots, actively trying to deceive people, and law enforcement investigation into corrupti corruption. we cooperate with law enforcement, with countries all over the earth, and one of the central issues right at the heart of this discussion is on the face of the transcript with zelensky what president trump is asking for is assistance with the u.s. government with investigating corruption. that is inherently within the authority of the

they don't want to know what happened during burisma. and, in fact, they say, if you investigate what happened with hunter biden, that's a crime in progress. they have zero evidence. you brought up the inspector general report. two things happened this week of great consequence. number one, the inspector general report which is unbelievably damning of the department of justice and fbi. the abuse of power that occurred there is stunning, but number two, we actually saw the house of representatives articles of impeachment, and their entire partisan case collapsed for weeks and months they have been promising evidence of criminal conduct. they abandoned all of that and admitted that the evidence doesn't support all of their attacks that have happened before. i think this is the beginning of the end for this show trial that we have seen in the house. i think it's going to come to the senate. we're going to have fair proceedings, and then it's not going anywhere because the facts aren't there. >> just to be clear, then you think there is noth