opponents of yanukovych were shocked but not surprised. >> viktor yanukovych was trying to monopolize state as his own personal family business. >> i spoke recently with doreena, ike's leading independent anti-corruption campaigner, and not a fan of the former president. >> in his youth he was convicted for robbery of hats. >> he stole people's hats? >> he stole people's hats. >> he was a low-level petty criminal? >> in the soviet union there were these fashion for hats because of the fur. so they were expensive. and he was committed for that. he served his term in the prison. so everyone treated iyanukovych as a criminal. >> amid growing pleasure and with blood in the streets, the hat they've turned president threw in the towel and fled to russia. celebrations broke out across kiev. but vladimir putin wasn't going to stand by and let a popular uprising go unchallenged in his own backyard. >> while putin was extremely upset, i think he thought this was a fateful moment where he was about to lose ukraine to the west. >> michael mcfaul was the u.s. ambassador to russia at the time. >> t

yanukovych.just a week before a summit before these agreements were to be signed, he agreed not to sign them. after treating the european union as a much lesser evil than nato, mr. putin got into his mind that the european union was bad news for moscow. that signing agreements with the european union meant that these countries, along russia's borders, were moving in a more westward direction, towards deeper integration with the euro atlanta community, and he wanted to stop that. so he pressured mr. yanukovych into not signing these agreements, or reneging on these agreements, and the result was a social media moment, that led a few months later, to mr. yanukovych fleeing power, going to russia, and a new government coming. and there were more than 100 people killed during the violence. unlike in 2004, with the orange revolution, there was terrible violence this time in the mind on in downtown ukraine. mr. yanukovych has the blood of those people on his hands. we then see a sense of panic in mosco

it was time when people hopeditw great corruption in yanukovych's presidency would be punished.2015, i personally initiated the resignation of general prosecutor shokin. >> ( translated ): come up and sign for the rignation of viktor shokin! >> reporter: what sobolev did was ask members of parliament to "no confidence" vote in shokin. it was a few signatures short of so you're saying it wasn't joe u biden who asked for the you asked for the prosecutor to be fired first? >> yes, we were campaigning for his resignation more than half a year. >> reporter: one campaigner was daria kaleniuk. action center in kyiv, and has been a leading voice against corruption here since the revolution that overthrew ukraine's pro-russian leader yanukovych. she demanded shokin's ouster for atcking reformers in his office, and: >> another reason was failure ta investigate grand corruption of yanukovych ukrainian prosecutor general's office did not want to help to provide evidence. he>> reporter: so in 2015, u.s. ambassador to ukraine took the precedented step of telling the country it should fire pro

so, yanukovych fell after these protests, poroshenko -- president poroshenko came to power after a freection. one of the things that poroshenko began to do is investigate the previous president, including his relationship with paul manafort. in 2018, those investigations were stopped. it hassaling assume, whether there was pressure from the trump administration or not, poroshenko stopped the investigation, because he didn't want to irritate president trump. >>> and now president trump zelensky seems to have succumbed to the pressure and announced he will investigate -- or review the investigation of the company that joe biden's son worked at. >> yes. i mean, so one of the oddities of this whole stores is the prosecutor who began investigating that company, stopped the investigation and stopped several other investigations, and joe biden, when he was the white house's envoy to ukraine, asked them, you know, was condemning the prosecutor who had refused to investigate his son's company and many other companies. so the reopening of the investigation may be a gesture to the trump white hous

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right after the revolution when yanukovych ran out of the country petro poroshenko came in and they desiredblish something called the national anti-corruption bureau to weed out high-level corruption with ukraine. people like myself was there to train investigators and prosecutors on what we did in the fbi as far as best practices, how to recruit sources, physical and electronic surveillance conducting interviews and the like. >> congressman, americans have heard a lot about someone named victor shogun. while you were there did you form an opinions prosecutor general viktor shokin? >> we did. granted only there between three and four months but the general sense and consensus of the fbi, of our foreign partners, mainly the brits, mi-5 and mi-6 the ones we worked with at the u.s. state department apparatus that the prosecutor's office in general and mr. showingen in particulin -- shokin in particular was obstructing american and british efforts to work in partnership with those offices. i didn't deal with mr. shokin directly but i did deal with some of his underlings as part of the training

ukraine, in kiev, in 2013 and 2014 which ushered in this entire information war, were abouti iaviktor yanukovych. the fact is everything president trump is doing is now driving ukraine into putin's arms. it's a sad and pathetic. >> rick, we'll have to get back to you and talk about information wars and all of that experience and your book as well. thank you so much. so much breaking news this morning. kristen welker, geoff bennett, anne gearan, rick stengel, thank you so much to all of you. >>> coming up, president trump inviting the president of turkey to the white house over raging criticism whether he green lighted a turkish assault against american allies. >>> and jimmy carter, building homes for habitat in nashville today despite a fall. safelite s? >> vo: my car is more than four wheels. it's my after-work decompression zone. so when my windshield broke... >> woman: what?! >> vo: ...i searched for someone who really knew my car. i found the experts at safelite autoglass. >> woman: hi! >> vo: with their exclusive technology, they fixed my windshield... then recalibrated the camera attached

and it also comes before, as you mentioned, these committees are expected to hear from marie yanukovych, the former a.m. bass door who according to the complaint would have had a front-row seat as giuliani was there trying to stir up speculation and dig up discredited dirt on president trump's political rival. steph. >> all right, kristen, this gets confusing, because even though we have not heard from the white house, we did hear from secretary of state pompeo, who now confirmed he was on that july 25th phone call after he initially dodged that very question. watch this. >> what do you know about those conversations? >> so, you just gave me a report about a whistle-blower complaint, none of which i've seen. >> mr. secretary, do you have any comment on reports you're on the july 25th call with president zelensky? >> as for was i on the phone call? was i on the phone call? the phone call was in the context of, now i guess i've been secretary of state for coming on a year and a half. >> okay, kristen, when we cover these things, sometimes i feel like i'm talking to my kids, because the an

cash payments paid to various people associated with the presidential administration of viktor yanukovych who fled ukraine to moscow and was paul manafort's client. rudy giuliani is trying to prove the black ledger was fraud, a forgery, cooked up by ukrainians to help elect hillary clinton in what was obviously a stunningly successful move by the ukrainians. >> giuliani, tom, wants to prove this ledger was a falsified pretext for u.s. authorities to reopen a case against manafort. you internally have called that sailly claim. explain that. >> it is a silly claim because it's not illegal and there's nothing wrong with having payments made to you overseas being recorded in a black ledger, a green ledger or a pink polka dotted up with. doesn't matter. doesn't matter whether you get paid overseas, doesn't matter whether you keep that money in a foreign bank account, doesn't matter if one day you bring the money back to pay for things like a new putting green at your hampton's house or exotic rugs, none matters. none of that is necessarily illegal either. it's only illegal when, as paul manafo

and they're expected to request reeker about marie yanukovych and the counterpart to investigate counterpartto investigate joe biden for the military aid. and lawmakers require more transparency. >> every hearing has been announced as unclassified. there's no reason he's having them down in the secure facility except to control the information that's come out, but he leaves it unclassified so he can selectively leak is to the media. >> democrats say they need to hear from the witness today because of the elijah cummings funeral in baltimore yesterday. congressman jim jordan urged the witness not to show up. we're surprised and disappointed that you're testifying on a saturday. we encourage you during a business day. david lucas, good to see you, thank you very much. my next guest is one of the republicans who stormed the closed door meeting earlier this week. alabama congressman bradley burn is on the house armed services committee and he joins us now. good to see you, congressman. what were you hoping to accomplish by storming this meeting? meeting? >> two things, as a member of congress i

they are expected to grill reeker over the firing of marie yanukovych and asking his ukrainian counterparto investigate joe biden in exchange for nearly $400 million in military aid. republican lawmakers demand more transparency to the closed door hearings. some democrats agree. >> every single hearing, they're having down in this secure facility has been announced as unclassified. there's no reason he is having them down in this secure facility, except to control the information that's coming out. but he leaves it unclassified so that he can selectively leak it to the media. >> i do think it will obviously lead and always the intention of mr. schiff to hold public hearings. we would all be far better served sooner rather than later to get to the public hearing phase of this. >> democrats say their need to hear from the witness today because elijah cummings' funeral was yesterday. and we were surprised that you agreed to appear for a deposition on saturday. we encourage you to' peer on a business day for rebust appearance. and it should end in two to three hours, but could stretch langer.