mr. cooper. >> reporter: mr. cooper is not a person. it's a mortgage servicing company. gabe says mr. cooper distributed his rebuilding money progressively over about a year, at various stages of construction. that's common practice to make sure people with mortgages rebuild. but it's hundreds of thousands of dollars of his insurance money sat idle, gabe wondered if it was earning any interest. well, it turns out california law says when a mortgage holder receives money for payment of taxes and assessments on the property for insurance, or for other purposes relating to the property, they shall pay interest at the rate of at least 2%. >> when it's close to half a million dollars at one point, 2% really starts to add up. >> reporter: gabe says mr. cooper was paying a lot less. >> .01%. they had paid me about $22. >> reporter: by gabe's calculation, he was owed an additional $5300. he said mr. cooper wouldn't pay. so he turned to us. we made contact with mr. cooper. it didn't comment, but gabe says he got his 5300 bucks. much needed move-in money. >> every penny matters. >> reporter: it'

mr. cooper.s a mortgage holding company. he said he distributed his money progressively throughout the year at various stages of construction. that's common practice to make sure people with mortgages rebuild. but as hundreds of thousands of dollars of his insurance money sat idle, gabe wondered if it was earning any inrest. turns out california law says when a mortgage holder receives money for payment of taxes and assessments on the property for insurance or for other purposes relating to the property, they shall pay interest at the rate of at least 2%. >> when it's close to $500,000 at one point, 2% adds up. >> reporter: gabe says mr. cooper was paying a lot less. >> 0.1%. they paid me about $22. >> reporter: by gabe's calculation he was owed an additional $5, 300. we contacted mr. cooper. he did get it. >> it's good move-in money. >> reporter: the picture gets murkier here on st. andrews drive. >> it was a very, very special place. >> reporter: linda and her husband james also lost their home

mr. cooperative, they recorded every word. >> hello, officer. this is fred schockner. >> hey, mr., how are you doing? >> there has never been anything as bad as this in my life. >> oh, right, right. >> and i hope there never will be. >> i don't blame you. >> but you asked me a couple of questions and let me give you some information. >> okay. >> the check that i wrote to frank was cashed on october 29th. >> that was 5,000. that was for the bmw. >> that was for the bmw. >> reporter: and look at this. on the check there's a note that indicates the bmw would be delivered between 11/7 and 8. lynn was murdered on the 8th of november. >> i called them today and asked about the status of the car on the voice mail. >> you didn't happen to ask him if he was back in the country, did you? >> no, i just left him a voice mail. >> reporter: does it sound like fred is having fun toying with the cops? >> any other questions you have for us at this time? >> happy fishing. why is it going so long? that's a good question. because the fishing isn't answering, right? >> well, like i said, i told you f

mr. zelensky to cooperate, actually coordinate with mr.i and pursue investigations of corruption, according to people familiar with the call. they're going after joe biden back then. i'm joined by maya wily. and i use the godfather term here, the use of a wartime c consigliere who had a great reputation until now, here he is saying you give this guy dirt on biden who i think you've got to run against or else you won't have any defensive weapons because you didn't give me dirt. that is the fact of that conversation. >> is essentially the way any prosecutor would read that exchange. and i think the fact that rudy giuliani started the prausds in april, remember, chris, what april was. we had the summary from william barr, really spinning the robert mueller probe report, and then in april it's becoming public. we have the president then asking rudy giuliani to get engaged, there intermediaries start setting up his meetings and so the july 25th call was not the beginning of it. it was because donald trump himself as we know personally got engag

mr. giuliani have a choice to cooperate if he is subpoenaed? >> well, if he's subpoenaed as an officer of the court he will show up, he will show up before whatever committee in the house of representatives subpoenas him whether it's intelligence committee or the judiciary committee, the question is the answers that he gives, the questions that are posed of him, mr. giuliani could potentially on questions asked of him cite attorney-client privilege, he's the personal lawyer of president trump and the white house can invoke executive privilege in same way it invoked the executive privilege for corey lewandowski when he was called to intelligence committee. arthel: does it appear that they seem to be distancing from president trump's personal attorney and ukraine scandal? >> what it appears to me that certain members are saying of the administration are saying that they did not authorize the trip that rudy giuliani, the president's personal lawyer made to madrid on behalf of the president, the president, of course, is personal client of rudy giul

expand shared interest with our door open and share opportunities with other countries through cooperation mr president the world today is not a peaceful place unilateralism and protectionism are posing major threats to the international order at a time when the future of the world is at stake china has never been and will never be an onlooker as a founding member of the un we will work with other countries to build a new type of international relations and a community with a shared future for mankind we will be resolute in our holding the stature and role of the un the international system underpinned by the un and the international order anchored upon international law facing the headwinds of protectionism we should not just stand ardley by erecting was will not resolve global challenges and blaming others for one's own problems does not work the lessons of the great depression should not be forgotten. terrorists and provocation of trade disputes which upsets the global industrial and supply chains serve to undermine the multilateral trading regime and global economic and trade order they m

cooperate and hand over all those documents? >> well, as a former prosecutor and a lawyer, i would expect for mr. rudy giuliani to understand this process. i would hope he would act in a cooperative manner. if he's someone who is truly concerned about the preservation of our democracy and upholding our rights of congress he should be willing to cooperate. >> on friday he said your committee is not legitimate and it's a sad joke and then he said this just yesterday on abc's this week when directly asked will he cooperate. >> will you cooperate with the house intelligence committee? >> i wouldn't cooperate with adam schiff. i think adam schiff should be removed. >> that's your answer. you're not going to cooperate. >> i didn't say that. i said i will consider it. >> he did say that but given that rudy giuliani might tell you at this point, that the sky is not blue. how do you measure the value of what he says to you guys and what turns over to your committee? >> well, rudy giuliani has a reputation of being a smart man or he had a reputation of being a smart man. it seems more clear that he's impres

cooperation. in addition, mr. speaker, japan is now to ban certain products to be exported to south korea which are used by south korea, and samsung, in my district, the largest foreign investment in the united states, samsung will be ham strung in their ability to create semiconductor chips and bring them to the united states and their facility in austin, texas, in my district. for all these reasons, the national security reasons most importantly, i urge my colleagues to support this measure and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. levin: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself as much time as i may consume for the pup of closing. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: thank you. this resolution offers a positive vision for our trilateral relationship. its passage today reaffirms the importance of our country's cooperation on critical economic and security

mr. trump placed a congratulatory call as he was en route from his mar-a-lago resort in washington. he urged him to cooperate with mr. giuliani and referred to corruption, the details of which have not been reported. late today trump spoke out about the impeachment investigation, his phone call in july and efforts to make the whistle-blower's complaint public. >> i've spoken with leader kevin mccarthy and the republicans, many of them, and we were going to do this anyway, but i've informed them, all of the house members, that i fully support transparency on the so-called whistle-blower information. the witch hunt continues. but they're getting hit hard on this witch hunt because when they look at the information, it's a joke. impeachment for that? i think you should ask for the first conversation. it was beautiful. it was just a perfect conversation. but i think you should do that. i think you should, and i think you should ask for vp pence's conversation. take a look at that call, it was perfect. i didn't do it. there was no quid pro quo. democrats say, we can't beat him at the election, so let's impeach hi

mr. ritter and we discussed our bilateral cooperation and partnership we should do a mission as you would surpass them one of them apparently is actively developing is much to limit the number of tracks to be taken with much attention to go a carburetor as usual last year trade between russia and turkey has of do with guns further than the level of $25000000000.00 in the predictive in the good things to such important projects and there is deploy. the accu power plant for example and the turks 3 minute it being developed actually it's a complex we have advanced an arms cooperation we are supplying as for hoggard air defense is a simple case and we are currently engaged in talks the companies are supplying when the new advanced weapons our military and ties are also growing deeper than ever we are organizing exchanges of culture and language and this year there will be another record in tourism and we expect an over 6000000 of russian tours. come into turkey which is going to be a record high but you can do in my meeting of ways the president of iran mr rouhani would discuss and there is a

mr. dial was, i'm not cooperating, i'm not cooperating. >> not cooperating with the authorities?ould bobbi say that after being kidnapped, raped, and tortured by randolph dial for years? tell dial i'm not cooperating, but what did that mean? >> if it came out in the paper that i was cooperating, i felt like my family would still be in harm. >> so maybe bobbi was still afraid of dial. or maybe she had other reasons for saying she was not cooperating with law enforcement. along with her odd statement, deputies were finding odd things in that trailer. >> they picked up a lot of cards and -- like valentine cards, christmas cards, letters -- >> valentines? >> uh-huh. >> which just fueled the suspicions a lot of people had harbored all along. you don't buy the victim narrative on any level? >> not for a minute. >> suspicion was about to turn into an investigation. was the victim now a suspect? >>> coming up -- >> oh my gosh. this cannot be happening. >> when "the devil and bobbi parker" continues. (speaking japanese) where am i? (woman speaking french) are you crazy/nuts? cyclist: pip!

mr. sutton? >> we would absolutely not retaliate against anyone cooperating with the committee. >> mr. perault. >> thank you, congressman. yes. >> and mr. cohen. >> yes, from me, too. >> i appreciate that. because you guys have done a good job representing your businesses. but if there were a monopoly and you asked them if they were a monopoly they would say they were not a monopoly. obviously we have to do work that goes beyond just asking you for your opinion on it. we have to talk to other people. and so for that to be meaningful they can't be living in fear of retaliation from you. so thank you very much, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> we have been notified that the ranking member has called for a roll call vote. we'll take a quick ten-minute recess so we can all vote and we'll resume with the second panel. i want to thank the witnesses for our first panel for being here and you are excused. you are welcome to stay for the second panel, but very much appreciate you being here today and sharing the perspective on the current state of competition in the digital marketplace. we're in

mr. mueller fired during the process. the fact that the president has not cooperated has made that difficult. we do not have that situation. we have the president sharing notes that show he asked a government to interfere in the election. we know he withheld funding. short of a i did it tattoo on his forehead, we have a lot of information to move forward. it is important that we have the intelligence committee do their due diligence. we will move forward faster and at the end of the day, the american public gets this and it does not take a phd to understand what is in the whistleblower's report and if people hear from the whistleblower and other people, it will be damming for the president. >> how many members do you have in the caucus? >> 100, give or take. >> when you put out this statement before the story broke, was there a vote taken? can you say what the vote was? >> it is our normal process that we have. >> how does the process work? >> we raise something -- people in this town love process. people back at home like results. we raise something in a meeting and there is a motion and a s

mr. baker served as ceo of hardware store cooperation, and senior executive gross in scott's company, getting to launch a company, and home depot. mr. baker is a graduate of university of minnesota. our second witness is mr. at bona, mr. bone is president and ceo of national business aviation association, prior to joining mba, work at the general aviation manufacturers association, for senior vice president and general counsel, and then as president. in 2001, misspoken with nominate by president bush to serve as a member of the commissions on the future of the u.s. aerospace industry. prior to this, mr. bolton was nominate by president clinton, and confirmed by the senate, to serve on the management advisory council to the faa. mr. bolton received his degree in economics from university of kansas, his first lady grief from to learn university and massive law from georgetown university. our third witness, is captain joe depict, kept in the peak carney serves as the 11's president of the airline pilots association, which represents over 60,000 professional airline pilots in the united states an

special counsel had endless opportunity to investigate everything with the full cooperation of all the witnesses including mrlewandowski. to be subjected to this harassment and abuse again is nothing short of appalling and ridiculous. what a waste of money and time by our congress who hot to be doing something for the american people. lou: obviously that hasn't been their intent since seizing control of the house. i can't think of a single committee hearing that was seriously directed and focused on serving either the thanksal interest or -- the national interest or the american people. can you? >> no, i can't. that not what they have done at all. they continued this whole resistance operation. a total waste of time. lou: you know what i find disturbing is that republicans today were sitting there, and many of them were eloquent. and actually i thought did a reasonable job. but not one of them to me at least implied that they understand that this is a war with the democratic party that means to unseat a president. means to overthrow him. means to subvert every aspect of his agenda. they are talking as if thi

mr. zelensky, president of ukraine, cooperate with him in the investigation of my rival biden. so william barr is now a central figure in all of this -- these developments. >> as you said, he has the ultimate authority to decide where this question went. >> unless he recuses himself, and in light of his being all over this transcript he is going to have a lot of pressure to recuse himself. >> but it is also a good time to remind people barr was one of the people pushing for the release of this transcript. secretary of state mike pompeo was saying they shouldn't release it because he said it would set a dangerous precedent. we were told by people barr is pushing it but it is problematic for him because you see through the same lens that the president views rudy guilliani and the attorney general. he is saying here, of course as pam pointed out, the ukrainian president brings up rudy guilliani first, talking about him, and president trump says, quote, i will ask him to call you along with the attorney general. he goes on to praise rudy and says, quote, there's a lot of talk about

mrs. davis of california, messrs. langevin, larsen of washington, cooper, courtney, garamendi, ms. speier, messrs. norcross, gallego, moulton, carbajal, brown of maryland, khanna, keating, vila, kim, ms. kendra s. horn of oklahoma, messrs. cisneros, thornberry, wilson of south carolina, turner, rogers of alabama, conway, lamborn, wittman, mrs. hartzler, ms. stefanik, messrs. kelly of mississippi, bacon, banks and ms. cheney. from the permanent select committee on intelligence, for consideration of matters within the jurisdiction of that committee under clause 11 of rule 10, mr. schiff, ms. sewell of alabama, and mr. nunes. from the committee on the budget for consideration of sections 4 and 10608 of the senate bill, and sections 1006 and 1112 of the house amendment and modifications committed to congress, messrs. yarmuth, peters and johnson of ohio. from the committee on education and labor, for consideration of sections 571, 572 and 5501 of the senate bill in sections 1117, , 580, 1099-n, 3120, and 3503 of the house amendment and modifications committed to conference. mr. scott of virginia, mrs.

civilian government has been established it is worth pointing out that mr home doc is indicating his country is going to continue cooperating with the united nations not just because of the assistance that u.n. agencies could provide but also to show that sudan is going to try to mature beyond what has happened in the past 3 decades and to try to take its role not just as a member of the united nations but to be an upstanding member of the african union as well. climate change is being blamed for frequent droughts in somalia that are forcing people to leave homes almost every 2 years the u.n. says that more than 2 and a half 1000000 somalis have been displaced as muhammad i don't know reports now from the region of by doa dry dusty and parched desert sand is slowly taking over one's full time fields in somalia. just 2 years of to the last dealt and the country's again facing one of the driest threeness seasons in more than 3 decades. the victims of visible almost everywhere makeshift camps like this one for those affected by drought can be found in almost every city. this is by insult west so money. these people have just a

mr. comey very concerned about what could be coming down the pipes because generally speaking the first person to cooperateully get the best deal. and they were both in on everything together so mr. comey i would think would not be sleeping particularly well although they know no bounds. i don't know how he is processing this. lou: went to turn to your case very quickly as we assess what is going on. a memo, a department of justice memo clearing your client of being a russian agent but suddenly that exculpatory document is missing, who has it, do you think if anyone, how in the world could be lost in white did the prosecutors not take note of it? >> i don't think it's really lost, they deliberately ignored it because they advised about it and delighted the brady production lighting us know what some of the information is out there that is favorable to the defense. people in d.o.j. have seen it, it was written january 30, 2017. before mr. comey went to the oval office and light in the face of the president and when the president said i hope you can see to let this thing go with mr. flynn, he's a good guy. m

mr. speaker, when our country a founded, the idea of democratic republic was not foreign, it was nonexistent. intermittent cooperation to win independence, the colonies unity, and being american had little meaning. realizedens could have the amount of sacrifice needed a document ratify to unite them all. ur constitution truly is a miracle. aside from its genius, its helps us appreciate the blessing it is. colleague, congressman chris stewart, and judge ted stewart, wonderful book, "seven miracles that saved america." it they offer three reasons to believe god had a hand in the crafting of the constitution, and for the remainder of my time on constitution day, i'd like to quote them." timing. the window of opportunity for the writing and ratification of small.stitution was very every effort to make the articles of confederation 1776 and 1787 n had already failed. in may of ddenly 1787, a group of 55 patriots together with both the wisdom of the ages and enough energetically fight for the ratification of the constitution. a attempt to create constitution later than 1787 would have almost certainly failure as well. just

mr. trump offered him any quid pro quo for his cooperation on an investigation. with top ukrainian officials about the prospect of an investigation he said in an interview. the trump lawyer has suggested that mr. biden as vice president worked to shield from investigation a ukrainian gas company with ties to his son, hunter biden. a ukrainian official earlier this year said he had no evidence of wrong doing by mr. biden or his son. after the july call between the two presidents, the ukrainian government said mr. trump had congratulated the new president on his election and expressed hope that the government would push ahead with investigations and corruption probes that stymies relationships between the two countries. the white house declined to comment. the biden campaign did not comment. last week a biden campaign spokesman said of mr. guliani's effort to pressure the ukraine, this is beneath us all as americans. the full story is lengthy. it's just posted at wsj.com. the website for the "wall street journal." again, the journal's parent company and the fox new

we can unilaterally act into whatever we want to do if congress won't cooperate mr.e a constitution, that's a nice point. it's kind of foundational that you haven't been hearing a lot from this group of candidates. >> i think this morning everything done like everyone is hooked up on the record player. he went straight past the 8-track. >> there is another moment here and that's how your government can make you rich again. here we go. you get a thousand dollars, you get a thousand dollars. >> if you believe that you can solve your own problems better than any politician go to yank 2020.com and tell us how $1,000 a month will help you do just that. this is how we will get our country working for us again, the american people. now pete buttigieg. >> its original i'll give him that. i think oprah might think it's not so original she was giving away cars. >> you get a car, you get a car. >> okay so it's judgment day for actress felicity huffman. while she pays time after she admitting she paid to have her daughters as a t score is fixed. plus reports just in that the man

civilian government has been established it is worth pointing out that mr han dog is indicating his country is going to continue cooperating with the united nations not just because of the assistance that u.n. agencies could provide but also to show that sudan is going to try to mature beyond what has happened in the past 3 decades and to try to stake its role not just as a member of the united nations but to be an upstanding member of the african union as well. climate change is being blamed for frequent droughts in somalia that are forcing people to leave homes almost every 2 years the u.n. says that more than 2 and a half 1000000 somalis have been displaced as muhammad i don't know reports now from the region of by doa. braai dusty and parched desert sand is slowly taking over one's full time field since somalia. just 2 years of to the last drought and the country's again facing one of the driest rain assistance in more than 3 decades. the victims are visible almost everywhere makeshift camps like this one for those affected by drought can be found in almost every city. this is by door in south west somali these people

cooperate with the national football league and help them in their investigation. >> reporter: brown has not been charged criminally and denies each and every allegation in the lawsuit, adding any sexual interaction with mr. brown was entirely consensual. a sentiment which was repeated by brown's power agent, drew rosenhouse who took it one step further. >> this is a money grab. antonio will cooperate. he will cooperate with the patriots, with the nfl, with any investigation, with the nfl pa and antonio will be cleared. these allegations in the lawsuit are false. >> essentially, the claim is this. that on multiple occasions, brittany taylor is saying antonio brown sexually assaulted her. as a result, she suffered tremendous pain and suffering, and because of that, she is saying i am entitled to money damages. >> reporter: the lawsuit reportedly catching the patriots off guard, the team issuing a statement saying we are aware of the civil lawsuit filed against antonio brown as well as the response by antonio's representatives. we take thesens very seriously. under no circumstance does this organization condone sexual violence or assault. the league has informed us that they will be investigating. today hi

and i think that the idea here is obviously to try to get his cooperation first and sort of let mr.and continue to say things that might be helpful to the committee. >> giuliani has said that he was sent there, working on behalf of the state department. doesn't that negate attorney clich client privilege? he wasn't going there solely on behalf of the president. which i guess would be a complicated thing for him to admit, potentially damaging thing for him to admit. >> yeah, it is a complex thing. we've heard publicly that he has said that he is there on behalf of the administration being but we've also heard from people close to the administration that he is not there on official work. so this definitely complicates any assertion of executive privilege. you know, i think that we'll see an interesting fight over what congress is willing to do if in fact he does resist. congress does have the power to hold someone in contempt of congress. congress has inherent authority to do so and has invoked that authority to either fine or order the sergeant of arms to arrest somebody. so -- >> wh

amamy: later, anderson cooper brought up the same issue. >> mr. vice president, isaac earlier mentioned the fundraiser going to clare, -- clarify, andrew goldman is one of the sponsors of the fundraiser, hit a company -- cofounder of a company called western lng. he currently does not have day-to-day responsibilities. >> what i was toldld by my staff is he did not have any responsibility relating to the company. you was not on the board. he was not involved at all and operation of the company at all. it if that turns out to be true, then i will not in any way except his help. the point in my -- the point i was told by my staff, and we check every single contribution. that is why we don't list them immediately. we go through every contribution to make sure we are not accepting money from people we said we would not or should not. amy: we're joined now by three guests. washington, d.c., mustafa ali is with us, the former head of the environmental justice program at the environmental protection agency. he quit under president trump. he's vice preside

mr. president. australia and the united states have always been the greatest of friends not just in areas of strategic cooperation but economically, the people-to-people relationships, well, there's none better. >> what is the relationship like between those two men? >> incredibly strong. the interpersonal relationship seems paramount to president trump and he's been able to get that in spades with our prime minister for a few reasons. one, both have bonded over improbable victories. according to the so-called experts. they bond about their views about strong needs to deal with illegal immigration. australia has a very clear understanding of what legal and illegal immigration is. that language is a little bit mixed in the united states politics. so i think the clarity of that language is something that they get along very well with. the affinity for the suburban and the largely forgotten, unfashionable people, dare i say, and i think that in a place where there's a lot of world leaders who have had pretty -- things to say about donald trump when he was a candidate and responding to the early days of his administr

we are continuing to have those similar discussions for cooperative agreements with other countries as well. reporter: [indiscernible] -- mr. morgan: i'm not going to speculate. i'll leave that up to maybe the vice president and his discussion this week. but what i can tell you, think about this from a pragmatic standpoint. if somebody is fleeing their country because they feel that they're being persecuted for a list of legitimate reasons, it really is in their best interest to apply for asylum to the first country that they have entered outside of the country that they are being persecuted. that's our design. we believe it's in their best interest as well. reporter: with the numbers going down, is there a point at which they'd be down far enough that the national emergency or crisis at the border will be over? and in a related question, they went up under the acting d.h.s. secretary. why did he get promoted rather than fired? mr. morgan: let me take the second one first. that's way out of my lane or pay grade. what was the first question again? reporter: when will the number goes down -- mr. morgan: right. what i would s

mr. speaker, the mueller report is replete with instances of cooperation by members of the trump team with the russians, page after page after page. as a matter fact, one of them was page, of collusion. now, collusion is not a legal definition. conspiracy is the legalfi definition, and mr. mueller said we didn't look at collusion because it was not a legal premise. and, in fact, mr. mueller made it very clear that the reason they did not find criminal wrongdoing was because they believed under justice department rules a president cannot be indicted during the course of his term. they did not absolve him. and so whether it was obstruction of justice, using a foreign government who is essentially not our ally, not our friend, meeting with putin secretly and not allowing the american people or the congress to know what was said, my friends premise that there is no smoke, no fire, is wrong. and very frank a summer to assert here a long time and who is seen some of the most irresponsible attacks on the president during there obama administration, hearings over and over and over again, a tragedy

mr. president, that kind of bipartisan cooperation is about to produce the most sweeping tax reform legislationince 1913. >> on this vote, there are 97aye's, three nays, hr38-38 is declared passed. >> if i have to stand here until this room freezes over, i will not see this amendment put on the legislation was has to do with national service. >> i will speak until i can no longer speak. i will speak as long as it takes. >> when i am done, i will be done. maybe soon. i'm getting a little tired but i'm going to keep talking for a while. >> a filibuster is nothing more than saying no. >> there is no official accepted definition of what a filibuster is. it could be any sort of blocking or delaying action. >> the filibuster we have seen on the other side of the aisle. >> it gains its name in the 1850's. in 1853, the word filibuster shows up in congressional debate for the first time. when you get to the latter part of the 19th century, it becomes a stage show. you get to the point where you have what i call the grand masters of the filibusters. these are people in the early 20th century like robert

mr. trump offered the ukrainian president any quid pro quo for his cooperation on any investigation. i imagine that was a white house source that brought that to the journal today. everyone is trying to put their spin on this story. going back to my original question, peter. will or could this be a problem for the administration if the democrats sink their teeth into this and say you were whining and hillary and fusion gps. now it looks like you guys are doing you said they were doing during the 2016 campaign. >> no, i don't think so. we have to see what information comes out. the bottom line is the president of the united states can certainly request that a foreign leader investigate possible corruption or criminal conduct. i think you should have the u.s. department of justice working with the ukrainians. i wouldn't want the ukrainians investigating this by themselves. this is a country that has a long history mired in corruption. the way to do this, the u.s. department of justice should work with the ukrainians to investigate precisely what went on. what was hunter biden being pai

various departments, actually i'm not looking at planning, that was remarkably cooperative and i'm not looking at dbi, no offense, mr. spitz, i'm looking at the department of public works, where i had to send my staff down get an encroachment permit. it's like -- we need somebody who walks these people through the various steps. i understand why all these laws exist. i'm delighted we live in a society where people don't burn to death in their buildings because we require sprinklers and we verify that people aren't cheating. i realize that different neighborhoods have different desir desires, so we prohibit mortuaries and gas stations in certain neighborhoods, but there is always one other thing at the end of the chain. so this board in record time passed legislation to allow this particular business to locate a half block away. and we did it in less time than it took this owner to get to the bureaucracy, mostly because unknown to us, they were hung at the department of public works over an encroachment permit i didn't even think was necessary. i just want to say, if oewd wants to be a help, it's like track these cas

mr. president. as you said, we just signed an agreement to extend our memorandum of understanding on defense cooperationht. >> it's the second time we are extending this. we have a very good relationship between the two countries but it also reflects our broader cooperation in economics, we have an fta between our countries and the volume of investment, too. in singapore you are our most important foreign investor and in america, as small as we are, we have $55 billion worth of investments -- >> not too bad. >> -- in many different states and they tell me a quarter million u.s. jobs so not bad for a small country. >> not bad. >> we would like to do more and we hope that we will do more in singapore and also in the asia pacific region. >> we had a very successful meeting with kim jong-un of north korea and it was in singapore. people don't give that meeting as much credit as it deserves. the relationship was established and it was a tremendous success and we saw each other there, really got to know each other there very well and you've . >> we were very honored to host the first summit between you and mr