and what about volodymyr zelenskiy himself?you know, last christmas, he was just an actor thinking abo maybe running for president. and now, he's this politicalho figure at the center of everything. and his profile has skyrocketeds i mean, een the cover of time magazine. he's been on the pages of every major newspaper in every cotry. and so, you know, his profile has just gone up and up. and i think that he's handling the pressure that comes with that pretty well.to it's harudge from the outside what's going on behind closed doors. but as i said before, ukrae has got it, done a good job of, i think, balancing the whims of e'is white house with ukra interests.an >> sreenivall right. simon ostrovsky, thanks so much for joining us and for your reporting. >> reporter: appreciate it. >> sreenivasan: that's all for this edition of "pbs wshour weekend." i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captiod by access.wgbh.orroup at wgbh >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard an

officials and president zelensky the day after president zelenskiy met with volker, somber and taylorey ambassadors never comes up linking a a to an investigatio. then august 27 went ambassador -- most important late you got senators johnson and murphy meet with president zelenskiy on september 5 at the senior u.s. officials all become convinced that this guy is the real deal, he's legit, a real reformer like he campaigned on. they convey that to the present and their two keith hall calls that happened between senator johnson and trump and senator portman on september 11 the date that aid was released he had with president. that's what changes. >> and one of the think i want to add to that, one of the thing that habit is the first week in september omb actually provides a report on the assistance from the european allies in terms of their support to ukraine. and so that report is released along with what congressman jordan was talking about, personal advocacy from a number of senators who have first and knowledge of their conversations with the president of the united states and then

i know president zelenskiy for a long time. it is impossible to press this guy.o make some decisions. he's absolutely independent and a very strong leader. you will have, i'm sure, have been following the trial in this and very closely and you will have noticed that the discussion that has moved on from the question as to whether there was pressure put on ukraine. pretty much everyone seems to accept that now. the question is rather more whether that was right or wrong and whether it was something that should lead toa was something that should lead to a president losing their job. is it not now time to level with people and explain what pressure ukraine was under, because it's critically you are under some. our position and our principal position and our principal position of president zelenskiy and all ourteam, we position of president zelenskiy and all our team, we are always very honest, five, six months ago, and today it is absolutely, we keep the same position. your position is still... crosstalk. i'm sorry, your assistant is trying to interfere here. what y

while mayor zelenskiy has rejected the resignation of his prime minister.fered to step down after being caught on tape saying the president do nothing about the economy. president zelenskiy described the situation as unpleasant but he is giving him a second chance. china's birthrate has policy to its lowest since 1949, fueling fears of a demographic crisis. 14.6 million births in 2019, half a million fewer than the previous year. the drop occurred despite the government relaxing its one child policy in recent years. as hong kong's protests continue, teachers have become a target. they are accused of starting up on rest and turning schools into incubators of civil disobedience . reporter: a few days before the and of term looks like is of usual. teachers have been in emergency mode for most of the semester. >> we are always worrying whether our students are hurt outside. teachers, they even come out to the streets to try to find their students and see if they can give guidance or support. reporter: more than 900 miners had been arrested since the start of th

military aid to ukraine 91 minutes after president trump's july phone call with ukrainian president zelenskiy. on december 29th. in the "new york times" report included several revelations about the extent of chief mulvaney's involvement in delayed military assistance, about the effort by lawyers at omg, justice and the white house, to create legal justifications for the delay in assistance and about the depth of opposition to, and indeed, alarm about the delay in military assistance from parts of the administration, particularly the pentagon. then, just yesterday there was a new report about a trove of newly unredacted e-mails that further exposed the serious concerns raised by trump administration officials about the propriety and legality of the president's decision to delay military assistance to ukraine. one of those e-mails released yesterday was from michael duffy, one of the witnesses we requested. a pentagon controller and it read quote clear direction from potus the president to continue the hold. clear direction from the president to continue the hold. is what duffy wrote. what con

. >> house managers have argued the president abused his power by requesting zelenskiy to investigate joe biden. the president's defenders say there was no quid pro quo. >> he said he felt no pressure. we know better. >> they say they ignored information from a key person on the phone call, lieutenant general keith kellogg. >> i had and have no concerns. >> they're asking you to remove president trump from the ballot. >> democrats say the white house is ignoringteam >> there are gaping majity leah mcdonnal is still not saying if witnesses will be call. >> it's proved to us that we can only grapple with the facts in this case if we get witnesses and duty. >> praising the defense and confident the president will be acquitted. president trump was not happy. his team began his case on a saturday morning calling it death valley and tv. this was just a sneak bre view and they'll continue their defense on monday. >> as we did all week, we'll have another newscast about the impeople trial. we'll they're from more conservative voices. senator elizabeth warren is beefing up for bay area preside

z answers my brother, suggesting lev parnas was referring to not zelenskiy.t does not identify who is doing the asking or the questioning. the questions center on the hiring practices of burisma. the apparent mischaracterization does not undercut democrats' argument that trump withheld critical aid to ukraine to pressure zelenskiy into opening investigations into the bidens. the story is available for all to see. the president is driving traffic to that story, the politico at 7:45 p.m.ight if viewers want to take a look. host: new york, republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. you know, as citizens we owe it to ourselves to listen in these proceedings. outknow, there are books there, information out there that you can get for yourself. books, profiles in corruption and secret empires. also if you listen to fox news in the evening you will find a lot of information. host: let's stick to the impeachment proceedings yesterday. what did you learn from them and what did you gain from them? caller: well, what i heard is that the democratic floor manager

they talked about the call trump had with zelenskiy and repeatedly referred to the transcript of the call. i think anybody was paid attention as it is not actually a transcript. there may be important parts of that testimony, that conversation that are not included in that. it is a summary of whatat people are e listing remembmber. false and a lot of misleading claims to pick through if you were watching on saturday. amy: can you talk more about abc news obtaining that recording of what appears to show president trump saying that he wanted then u.s. ambassador to ukraine marie ottovich fired? let me go to -- before you respond, let me go to that clip. [indiscernible] think -- the biggest problem i think where we need to start is we have to get rid of the ambassador. she is still left over from the -- pres. trump: the ambassador of ukraine? close she is saying, he is going to get impeached. just wait. [indiscernible] pres. trump: get rid of her. get her out. i don't care. take her out. ok? do it. video was obtained from lev parnas' attorney. it begins with trump posing for photos then

criticizing the president beinnepublished on he offered to step down after questioning president zelenskiy's grasp on ecomics. the president said he wanted to give the prime minister a second chance. brazil's culture minister has video in which he appeared to copy a speech by hitler's propagda man joseph goebbels. brazil's president jair bolsonaro lled the comments unfortunate. the french fason designer jean-paul gauthier says his nexi show in pari be his last. he presentis first individual colleion 40 years ago and has been known for pushing boundaries learn the' line between 's and women's clothing. he says his work will go on. suspected jihadists has come to its conclusion with 19 defendan beingentenced in absentia to at least 25 years in prison. our paris correspondent hugh schofield has been follong the case. >> the important thing to know about this trial is it'a very peculiaros trial becauseof those in the dark were not there, b,ad presumed to be is a trial of the ghosts here in france because of this unusual fact. many of the 19 who went out to the middle east in 2014, 2015 are known

argument that if you want to understand why the president made this extraordinary request to president zelenskiyvestigate the bidens, you have ,o understand why he felt that and therefore calling hunter biden could possibly shed some light on that. but doesn't really tell us very much about what the president is charged with? and that is requesting the assistance of a foreign government to dig up political , andon a political rival regardless of whether hunter wasn's deal with burisma unethical, tawdry, whatever you i think the it, democrats would argue it doesn't , ther because the fact is president was asking a foreign government to do the investigation, not the u.s. government, not the justice department, but a foreign government to do it. anchor: this whole thing is a test of endurance, isn't it? we've had hours of evidence so far and another two days on the democrat side. want is just rebound against the democrats? >> it could, it is hard to say. it will be interesting to see how many people are still tuned in tomorrow if the democrats keep at it and keep basically repeating themselves over

president zelenskiy, the ukrainian leader, potentially giving up his seat.e was invited but gave up his seat, offering it to holocaust survivors. in the background of this is a slight controversy about the number of actual holocaust survivors that have been invited . it is not considered to be a great number of people. the organizers of the event said we have reached out to everyone who was potentially interested. obviously, you have to take into account these are very old people. they might not be able to sit through a long ceremony. they said it was strange that president zelensky chose to take the step because it is not as if you can at the last minute invite a 95-year-old and say come and jump in your car and come to the ceremony and take up the seat vacated by president zelensky. involvese complex and organization and security and so forth. the organizers of the event said that that was an odd decision. i don't know if feeding into this was a sense of slight possibly given the fact that ukraine, as it is now, is a country in which previously under the s

he is raising burden sharing, and president zelenskiy agreed with him.ow, manager shift also suggested that there is evidence of some connection between the military assistance and investigations into 2016 interference because of a statement that acting chief of staff mulvaney made at a press conference. but that has been clear in the record since the press conference, that what he was saying was garbled and/or misunderstood, and he immediately clarified and said on that day, "the president never told me to withhold any money until the ukrainians did anything related to the server." part of the argument yesterday on the senate floor. john mcardle responding to some video requests i one of our viewers, said that president trump had tweeted this video? john: this was about 14 hours ago. the president sending out this video of john bolton, radio free europe interview. taking place in august. the president sent this tweet, which is two words with it -- "game over pickup here is the video of john bolton. meeting president zelensky. the president called to con

zelenskiy in kiev.e stood beside ukraine's president on friday and promised to the data states would not waver in his support of the country as it battles russian-backed separatists. i'm here with a clear message. the united states sees the ukrainian struggle for freedom and democracy and prosperity is a valiant one. our commitment to support it will not favor. that came as the senate continued its impeachment trial of president trump on the basis that the president conditioned u.s. military and double back support for ukraine's investigation of vice president joe biden. pompeo and his most direct remarks denied the trumpet administration said is a condition for a white house meeting with ukrainian president zelenskiy. he could not offer a date for the two countries arranging an oval office it down between trump and zelenskiy. 15 minutes more of your calls and comments. jim in toms river, new jersey on the democrats line. caller: hello. i'm a democrat. i am watching this. it is like a circus. they want

. >> do you believe in your opinion the president of the united states demanded president zelenskiy undertake these investigations? >> no, sir. >> he always made the claim he was intent on cracking down on corruption in ukraine and taking a tough stance on russia. >> you will hear president trump has a strong record on confronting russia. you will hear that president trump has a strong record of support for ukraine. >> but there's little evidence of trump's interest in corruption, save for a call into the investigation of into the bidens which also directly involves the president's personal interests, and while the administration has taken steps to crack down on russia, trump's public statements have undermined those efforts. over the course of their brief two-hour arguments, they took shots at the lengthy presentations. >> we're not going to play the same clips seven times. he said it. you saw it. >> as well as house intelligence chairman adam schiff. >> do you know who didn't show up in the judiciary committee? chairman schiff. >> they had enough time to escape for a bit of the weekend. >>

president zelenskiy says it is not time to shake up the country.ll bring you more details as we get them. americans wereys hurt in those missile attacks in iraq. that contradicts president trump's statements. 11 troops were treated for concussions. the attacks were lost in retaliation for the u.s. killing of a senior iranian general. the number of migrants entering europe from turkey rose significantly last year. the european union says most were fleeing violence in syria and afghanistan. migrants tried0 to enter europe without permission in 2019, up 46% from the previous year. china's birth rate has dropped to the lowest level since at least 1949. national statistics show the number of births per 1000 people declined to 10.48 in 2019, the lowest on record. china has tried to slow its declining birthrate for years, easing its stringent one-child policy in 2013 and allowing each family to have two children in 2016. global news 24 hours a day, on-air, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countr

we have supported this new leader, president zelenskiy, in his efforts to stamp out corruption and to democracy. . that. continuing to do our policy with respect to ukraine has been set on the fundamental principles of reducing the for print of corruption and helping the ukrainian people build up a democracy while under threat from the russians. kevin: you have said you look forward to going there, that you have other issues you want to discuss with them. is that still the case? sec. pompeo: yeah, i'm going to get there before too long. i had a trip planned, and then we had an issue arise in the middle east that we had to tend to. while that issue is not behind us, there is still a lot of stuff. kevin: why should americans care about what happens in the ukraine? what is the broader theme? who is explaining to the american people why u.s., ukraine policy matters to the average american? sec. pompeo: yeah. the ukraine sits at the edge between democracy and tyranny, in the easternmost parts of europe. it is a nation that gave up their nuclear weapons at the end of the cold war. america m

zelenskiy and president trump about aid, military and otherwise, and a change for opening an investigationst mr. biden, his possible adversary, and getting a white house visit. that was not available at the time of the house investigation, therefore it justifies calling these new witnesses to the trial before the senate. i think the strategy of the republicans is as follows -- they hope the american people will get bored after the opening arguments and the presentation of the evidence that is already in play, and after several weeks, they will say we need to get to a verdict. the second element that is in favor of delay on mr. trump's part is i believe, as happened in the nixon and clinton impeachments, there will be a national security crisis that will develop an mr. trump will maybe assassinate someone like soleimani, there will be an escalation of tensions in the middle east. it will be said we cannot afford in impeachment trial, we need to bring this to closure. that is what mr. nixon did in the yom kippur war. he put us on devcon three, the highest nuclear war stage. mr. clinton bombe

the quid pro quo that adam schiff was talking about where both a visit for zelenskiy and aid to ukraine were withheld by this president and mick mulvaney pending a promise that the president of ukraine would go on television and announced he was intong an investigation hunter biden, burisma, and joe biden. and that promise, that almost amounts to bribery, the withholding of desperately sought a by ukraine, in exchange for just political research to benefit the president and the 2020 election. that is the first. as val demings said in the tweet, the second is obstruction of congress. this is an unprecedented moment. even nixon agreed to work with congress when investigated him for impeachment. even clinton extensively cooperated with the house impeachment step this is the first time we have seen a white house absolutely say we will not cooperate with any part of this. we want nothing to do with it. no witness may testify. that is the second article is obstruction of congress come in effect, saying, come and get it most of is not how impeachment is meant to happen. the second article is t

since the election of zelenskiy almost a year ago, historic election where ukrainians east and west,divided country, really came together and supported this guy. he is the first really post-soviet leader ukraine has had. he is the ukrainian jon stewart. he is a sophisticated political satirist. peace was his number one campaign priority. when he talks about peace, he is talking to the people in a way they understand. as opposed to previous leaders who have said, everyone over there is a terrorist. if you are an ordinary ukrainian and your grandmother lives in the rebellion areas, what are you talking about? he has a lot of credibility and has been willing to talk to putin directly. they have managed to achieve some real cease-fires on the ground and exchanges of prisoners. relatively speaking, those are major steps. the ukrainian naval vessels that were captured a couple of years ago were actually returned a couple of months ago. no guarantees we will have a peace settlement in eastern ukraine but these massive casualties and the constant cease-fire violations are on the downswing. h

report, writes in his new book that president trump directly tied ukraine aid to getting president zelenskiy of ukraine to investigate hunter biden. tweeting out shortly after midnight, "i never told john bolton aid to ukraine was tied to investigations." 's goes on of accusing bolton "just doing it to sell books." my sources on capitol hill, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is still working to have an efficient even --at concludes may concludes may be even by the president's state of union address. alix: thank you. another story we have been following, the nba says they are devastated, as our fans around the world, at the death of basketball star kobe bryant. he was killed in a helicopter crash. one of the other victims, bryant's daughter. kobe bryant was 41. last night, the grammys paid tribute to the sports legend inside the same arena where the lakers play. >> we are all feeling crazy sadness right now because earlier today, los angeles, america, and the whole wide world lost a hero. we are literally standing here heartbroken in the house that kobe bryant built. alix: time now for

volker testified that president zelenskiy's senior aid asked to be connected to guiliani.an statement on the >>> volker said he did not have that impression, and he believed guiliani was doing his own communication about what he believed he was interested in. but even more significant than the reliance on presumptions, assumptions and unsupported conclusions, is the manager's failure to place in any farrakhfair context, guiliani's role in corruption. to hear their presentation, you may have think guiliani had the express reason for carrying out a hit job. they would have you believe guiliani was only there to dig up dirt against former vice president biden, because he could be trump's opponent in the 2020 election. it's the essential premise that it was an entire political one, undertaken at the president's direction. what evidence have the managers actually offered you to support that proposition? on close inspection, it turns out virtually none. they just say it. over and over and over. they offer you another false e dichotomy. either mr. guiliani was acting in an offici

he starts off in his opening argument line about the phone call with president zelenskiy. just flat out line about the transcript of that phone call. he says he has no idea who the whistleblower is. his team had been coaching the whistleblower. now, this is the guy who is going to come over and present the case to the united states senate? that is from fox news last night. she is the former florida attorney general. next up is brad from virginia. go ahead. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. i have a quick question. did you watch any of the greatest of all time jeopardy? i would be a good replacement for alex trebek. host: we thank you for that. your comment about the trial? aller: i will be watching as never trump republican. i'm looking forward to a day where -- i will be interested to see how people like romney and collins will be voting. i really want to see if he the stranglehold on the party. say thee democrats president is the framers worst nightmare. we will go with mike in nevada. good morning. are you with us? we will try it one more time for mike. p

ambassador and pressure ukrainian president zelenskiy into announcing investigations into one of theresident's leading rivals and today, through the good work of chris van hollen, the gao found it was , illegal for president trump to withhold military assistance from ukraine to pressure them to interfere in the 2020 elections. both the revelations about mr. parnas and the gao opinion strengthen our push for witnesses and documents in the trial. the gao opinion especially makes requesteddocuments we in our letter to leader mcconnell are even more needed now than when we requested it last month because president trump simply put, broke the law. every senator will get a chance to vote to obtain these documents next week. host: here is president trump question reacting to a of whether or not he knew lev parnas. [video clip] >> what is your response to lev parnas who said your efforts in ukraine were all about 2020? >> i don't know him. other than i guess i have pictures taken, which i do with thousands of people. i don't know him at all, don't know what he is about, know nothing about hi

shift getting up and lying to the american people by giving a parity of what was actually done, zelenskiys the president. he said there has been no corruption, there has been no bribe, no quid pro quo, but here is where the democrats lose that ability, when they don't investigate joe biden, when he did on videotape a quid pro quo. they fired prosecutor -- there is a pro-quote. host: lisa finishing up this program. three hours of listening to your calls on the senate impeachment trial, the house managers, the impeachment managers finishing their efforts yesterday. we will hear from the white house team starting today and into next week. you can follow along all the way through on c-span, c-span.org, and our radio app specifically on c-span2, which should start showing the proceedings any minute now. they give are watching today, and another edition of this program comes your way tomorrow morning. we will see you then.

asking about corruption. 20, right after the phone -- the very first congratulatory phone call to zelenskiy90 minutes later, they decided to stop the funds going to ukraine. the second phone call, neither phone call had any conversation about corruption in ukraine and how to fix it. his points were biden, paris burisma, crowd strike, 2016 election, he said talk to my main guy giuliani and barr. now you have lev parnas coming texts,h documentation, with his buddies, with giuliani. he has a voicemail of giuliani saying we need information. you have some guy trying to run we werece saying following the lady -- you have all these dots connecting to trump. he did not ask about corruption, he asked specifically and exactly about biden and trying .o get dirt, that is all he did this was russia, if you can find the emails, you will be rewarded. you don't have to say we are going to do a quid pro quo. all you have to say is if you do this for me, i will do that for you. donald trump knew specifically and exactly what he was doing, trying to get information on biden so he could use it in the 2020 ele

states policy, but against the urging of his advisors to release military aid and gave president zelenskiy meeting at the white house. ukraine at the time was fighting for its life against russia, their enemy and our enemy. and yet donald trump was undermining that defense by withholding aid illegally because he was violating the impoundment control act as the subsequently gao recently found and that was contrary to united states interest. host: back to the idea case? guest: the door is already opened. the house was successful in debunking and discrediting the whole biden conspiracy theory before it was raised. prosecutoring been a , united states a prosecutor -- attorney and attorney general of my state, when you put the witness on the stand you get the bad stuff out while they are testifying rather than leave it to cross-examination. you want to show the jury you know the bad stuff, but the case is still credible in trust for the. that is what the house managers were doing, stating that they know about the biden allegations but showing that they were baseless and groundless. all of the w

john, if you want to look it up, it doesn't mean that president zelenskiy of the ukraine had to know the money being held up. in my opinion, this was decided between both parties before it started of how it was going to end up. other words, they should just move impeachment from the constitution because they have charged him with the wrong thing. i like president trump and all, but you know, if you are guilty, you are guilty, but you have got to get something that is a crime. that is exactly what they got those hollywood people with those universities. they didn't have to carry through with it. college, then the recent college scandal? caller: right. that is exactly what they were charged with. mean, it is on the internet and you have all of these philadelphia lawyers up there, the experts, so to speak. i do just believe it was started because -- this morning, there is a v.a. in the senate. john, i wanted to ask you, are you going to air that or air that later? i have a constituent inquiry in the house and the senate, and the senate is supposed to have a hearing, but it may get cance

though, here, to the transcript of the july 25th call where president trump didn't ask president zelenskiy for an investigation or investigation into vice president biden or his son, hunter. a lot of loose talk in short hand reference it to that way but what he lever tops is the incident in which the prosecutor was fired and the first thing he says in that whole exchange is talk us about the prosecutor being fired, and he says its sounds horrible to him and the situation with pa barisma, and all the president says is, so, if you can look into it. sounds horrible. sounds like a bad situation. that is not calling for an investigation necessarily into vice president biden or his son but the situation in which the prosecutor had been fired, which affected anticorruption efforts in the ukraine, and president zielinski respond by saying the issue of the investigation of the case is actually the issue of making sure to restore the honesty, so we will take care of that. and he is explaining he understands that it'sen issue that has to do with, was an investigation there, over there their prosecuto

associated with acting in any capacity of a representative agency or proxy for president zelenskiy before or after his election. f, all records specifically identified by the witnesses in house of representative impeachment inquiry, any reflected an official response thereto included, but not limited know one, august 2019 cable sent by ambassador taylor to secretary pompeo. two, august 2019 memorandum to file written by deputy assistant secretary kent and three, a september 15 #, 2019 memorandum to file written by deputy assistant secretary kent. g, all meetings are or calls related to records or telephone calls scheduling items, calendar entries, state department visitor records and e-mails or text messages using personal or deviced, state department and officials and employees not limited to michael pompeo, ambassador volker and ambassador sondland and two, rudolph giuliani-- and h, curtailment or recall of former united states ambassador to ukraine marie marcia yovanovitch to the united states, and taken in response. and two, the sergeant at arms is authorized to utilize services of a