and mr trump's word can do any number of things to help ukraine if you look at the transcript mr issa lenski is desperate it's yes or with we're with you 100 percent certain you came ukraine will be your best friend sir he is desperate for help mr trump doesn't have to say anything until he's status 5 misters and alinsky understands the situation and he says i will have mr barr call you i will you will you will meet again with mr giuliani which selenski had already promised to do and so the $400000000.00 is really a side issue.

denied all the allegations he acknowledged all of that there was a phone call between he and wife mr lensky that he mentioned that joe biden and his son hunter were discussed and they was alleged corruption case they brought up as well during that conversation but he described that phone call as a perfect call and a very appropriate one he also admitted blocking a funds for ukraine but he explained that by theories that europe was not participating and actually later a was an freezed the reaction from the republicans and democrats is also quite predictable no one looked surprised but in their own way let's take a look. the president does not comply with such requests from the congress he continues to obstruct congress and flaunt the law. on trial for leave congress in my view no choice but to shooting fish in particular incidents shows that the president clearly thinks he's above the law now he's admitted to using his office to snow the country to 2020 i fully support the impeachment inquiry they have been investigating this president before he even got elected they have voted 3 times on im

officials told them wrong it seems at least some of it was already proved false the president pressured mrs lenski with a specific request that the ukrainian leader locate and turn over service used by the democratic national committee and examined by the u.s. cyber security firm crowd strike. i would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it and would like you to find out what happened. with this whole situation with ukraine they say crowd strike the server they say ukraine has it whatever you can do it's very important that you do it if that's possible the president also praised ukraine's prosecutor general. and suggested that mr lansky might want to keep him in his position. i heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that's really unfair a lot of people are talking about that the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved they these in gentleman we have front row seats as we watch the noble even all noble title of whistleblower sally my deed by partisan pol

president donald trump proud of ukraine's president all of mr lensky to investigate democratic presidentialcandidate joe biden revelations of potential abuse of power have prompted congressional democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry that. british prime minister boris johnson has challenge the opposition in parliament to put forward a vote of.

election by pressuring mr the lenski to initiate or continue an investigation into form of vice president joe biden and his son hunter biden thing it was house intelligence committee chair adam schiff who precipitated the release of the complaint. this month he subpoenaed u.s. spy chief joseph mcguire to explain why he hadn't passed on the complaint to the committee. that whistleblower by their very act of coming forward and showing more dedication to country more of an understanding of the president's oath of office than the president himself in a tense hearing mcguire defended his handling of the whistle blows lead he would not add see if he consulted with the president of the matter but he stressed that officials like the whistleblower have complied with government rules. i have every reason to believe that they have done everything by the book and follow the law. now the mainstream of the republican party is standing by president trump they say the whistle blows complaint is full of he say and doesn't prove its case and make use democrats of using the letter as part of an ongoing whic

actually did and found nothing but mr giuliani has made several trips so in the transcript what mr issa lenski says is 1st of all yes mr president ukraine will be your best friend mr president we're with you 100 percent mr president and then he says we have met with mr giuliani and we will meet with mr giuliani again and furthermore i'll have my attorney general mr barr call you on this matter so in context there's no question that mr zaleski is desperate for aid of any kind from the united states mr trump is the most powerful man in the world and can supply ukraine with help encounter acting russian aggression and in context when mr trump says yes thank you for looking into this what are you saying is we have an agreement thank you he doesn't say well the aid will be forthcoming but in context he certainly doesn't have to do that to show that there's an implicit understanding in an agreement with mr zelinsky now iran's president says there won't be any negotiations on its nuclear program so long as american sanctions remain hasan rouhani accuse the u.s. of economic terrorism and has address t

actually did and found nothing but mr giuliani has made several trips so in the transcript what mr issa lenski says is 1st of all yes mr president ukraine will be your best friend mr president we're with you 100 percent mr president and then he says we have met with mr giuliani and we will meet with mr giuliani again and furthermore i'll have my attorney general mr barr call you on this matter so in context there's no question that mr selenski is desperate for aid of any kind from the united states mr trump is the most powerful man in the world and can supply ukraine with help encounter acting russian aggression and in context when mr trump says yes thank you for looking into this what he's saying is we have an agreement thank you he doesn't say well the aid will be forthcoming but in context he certainly doesn't have to do that to show that there's an implicit understanding in an agreement with mr selenski iran's president says there won't be any negotiations on its nuclear program as long as u.s. sanctions stay in place hasan rouhani accuse the u.s. of economic terrorism in his address to th

2 leaders con conversation secret democrats say that during his discussions with of what appears lenski mr trump likely committed a crime by urging his counterpart to investigate democratic 20 and 20 hopeful joe biden's activities in ukraine and he's come up and explained if you take a look at the complaint it's from an unnamed whistleblower and this whistleblower essentially argues that they are working in the interests of the united states they heard about trump's conversation with the ukrainian leader they were outraged about it and they had to speak up now what's interesting is the whistleblower admits they never actually heard the conversation i was not a direct witness to most of the events described however i found my colleague's accounts of these events to be credible because in almost all cases officials recounted fucked pots ins that were consistent with one another in addition a variety of information consistent with these private accounts has been reported publicly and therefore filling my g.t. to report this information through pro police channels to the relevant authorities w

difficult to imagine this conversation on its own i think it forms part of a big dialogue between the lenski and mr ation and trump and his team more specifically rudy giuliani the former new york mayor and trump's personal lawyer who it's understood met with people from zilinskas team indirectly or directly several times. i think one thing that the ukraine side will be very careful to try to push for and i think he said that in that call he it would be in his interests if the u.s. made an official request for information or for an investigation that would then allow him to put it through to be wrecked bureaucratic machinery and not create the impression of taking sides or doing some underhand favor for the trump ministration that congress has accused the trump administration of delaying a 250000000 military aid package how important is the u.s. and the aid it's providing for ukraine. or that u.s. help the ukraine is crucial especially since in recent times the u.s. has begun to seoul become begun to sell ukraine lethal weapons javelin missiles which are you would be used as a kind of final defense

400000000 dollars or not the united states and mr trump's word can do any number of things to help ukraine if you look at the transcript misters a lenski is desperate it's yes or with we're with you 100 percent certain you came ukraine will be your best friend sir he is desperate for help mr trump doesn't have to say anything until he's status 5 mr zine alinsky understands the situation and he says i will have mr barr call you i will you will you will meet again with mr giuliani which selenski had already promised to do and so the 400000000 dollars is really a side issue of course there's no express quid pro quo in that situation given what selenski is saying that is clearly implicit kyron hagan's that professor at the school level and a former prosecutor thank you for joining us on your insights on al jazeera and today mr hagen thank you thank you. plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including down but not quite out israel's prime minister get some political breathing room despite failing to win outright in last week's election. digging deeper argentina looks to shale oil to help its troubled economy. and in sports heroes life

lenski, a former comedian, had just won ukraine's presidential election. his country relies on the us are millions of dollars in aid, but reports suggest mrtrump had dollars in aid, but reports suggest mr trump had other matters on his mind that they are —— volodymyr zelensky. the wall streetjournal has claimed mr trump repeatedly urged mr zelensky to investigate the son ofjoe biden, hunter biden. he worked for a gas company in the ukraine whilejoe biden was serving as us vice president. joe biden threatened to withhold aid unless it withdrew a public prosecutor. joe biden is currently the frontrunner for the presidential nomination, and he livid at suggestions that president trump may have tried to have the investigation reopened. you should be looking at trump. trump's doing this because he knows i will beat him like a drum, and he's using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to do something to smear me. although he is refusing to be drawn on the contents of the conversation, president trump is branding the affair "fake news". i don't want to talk about any conversation other than to say — other than to say, great conversation, totally appropriate conversation, coul