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-ukraine relationship with nina jankowicz. later, we will look at federal oversight of generic drugs, several of which have been found to contain carcinogens. susan berfield will join us. we will be right back. >> sunday night, as the house launches a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump, hear from the editor of the book, "residential misconduct," and one of the members of the house that worked on the impeachment of richard nixon. thought of the utility of a report like this and turned to woodward tond asked be the kind of commander-in-chief of the project of preparing such report, which was unprecedented. he asked three people to be his field generals. they identified and recruited about 12 historians to write 1, 2, or three sketches on that many presidencies. i was chosen to be one. we had eight weeks to do it. it was the day before fax, email, digitization, so it was done by phone call and mail. professor woodward submitted it to john doerr, and that is the last we heard of it. six weeks later, the president resi

joining me now is nina jankowicz. she's a fellow at university of washington. book will be published next year. nina, you were in ukraine this spring for the presidential election there. you've had some really interesting pieces recently in politico and on the east coast where you kind of hold back the curtain on this. tell us about zelensky. he's this sex joke comedian, some people might not know that, and tell us what this conversation with trump means to him. >> certainly zelensky never meant for it to be public. the thing to understand about ukraine is it's not in a situation of picking its allies. the united states for ukraine is the most important ally. we give hundreds of millions of dollars of aid every year to help them, and zelensky is trying to make a friend, maybe trying to shore up rhetorical support for the hot war ukraine is fighting with russia. he understands the art of flattery. that was clear from that call. >> we've seen other leaders do that, so that certainly didn't seem surprising because it works, right? we've seen them use it because it