correspondent pablo fully elyas and also what this means for the inquiry and for president trump. well it's a blow to president bill the one this time coming from the u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sunderland who now remembers telling an aide to the ukrainian president devoted to me that selenski. warsaw meeting in september along with the u.s. vice president mike pence that u.s. military aid to ukraine would likely not occur until ukraine and an investigation into corruption as part of this investigation included allegations against the son of the former vice president and possible democratic presidential nominee for next year's 2020 at election here in the u.s. joe biden. testified on october 17th to 3 house committees and it lasted around 10 hours you can imagine the level of detail in his deposition now it transpires that the week after his deposition he returned with his lawyers to capitol hill here in washington to review what he had said so as you can imagine their reaction to this news has created quite a stir among democrats in particular and president meanw

now let's dig deeper into this with our washington correspondent pablo foley elyas . the president is ever tweeting has he put off voters. dont think so and in fact signs are that there could actually in fact be a surge in voter turnout in 2020 in fact it could even be the highest in decades and the last time around the percentage of voters who took part in the 2016 election was less than 60 percent president presidency has really divided the nation and that's led to a belief amongst political analysts voters in fact will be out in force to make sure their candidate whether that be president trump for the republicans and whoever the democrats choose that winds down election now there or are also other indicators such as the number of people claiming to be keeping an eye on the campaign for 2020 that's up also the number of small donations to candidates also oak and also viewership figures of cable network networks that's also increasing so the figures basically as well for the midterms also were the highest in over 100 years so it looks like all the indicators are poi

this meeting that's yevgeny progress isn't he's the head of the wagner group i'm going to ask you elyas as someone who's been involved in in the military will self tell us a little more about this man and the outfit that he runs they were also i believe involved in syria. yes about now group is their private security company in russia. the 1st. stuff was in the done thing in eastern mccain yeah where they supported the separatists in crania and to. to build their own entity political entity and that but now there are about it in syria as well and the mountains of a lot tackier and in the syrian desert this is and where. the russia needs deniability in any action that was taken that should be taken by these groups maybe massacres or something like this the same as. the private security groups in iraq to quote blackwater and others and now that they did use that they are joining fully for have thought in eastern libya is very dangerous because. they're not there who can eyes in russia offer surely but. practically there are taking part in the conflict in libya with one side with general h