You know, the son of Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, was paid up to $50,000 a month by a corrupt oligarch and. I think any investigation would have to be fair going to the root of it. Let's see Vice President Biden's transcript. HARRIS: Then let's see the transcripts from Mr. He just delivered our message," end quote. So did the IMF, the International Monetary Fund. All of us working on Ukraine wanted this prosecutor gone because he was not prosecuting corruption. SHAPIRO: I need to read you a quote from Tom Malinowski, who is now a Democrat in Congress representing New Jersey but says, "I was an assistant secretary of state when this happened. The vice president has admitted that he actually held a billion dollars in aid as hostage in order to get this prosecutor fired. HARRIS: The - again, the president says quite explicitly in the letter that Vice President Biden himself bragged about getting this prosecutor fired. The president's domestic political rival generally would not be, you know, a subject of the attorney general's investigation at the request of the president. SHAPIRO: Not of the president's political rival, typically. I mean, they're the experts in investigating corruption, not the secretary of state. HARRIS: Because usually, attorney generals investigate corruption. Why do you think the president was asking Ukraine's leader to talk to the attorney general? SHAPIRO: Let me ask you about President Trump's repeated references to the attorney general, Bill Barr, because, of course, world leaders ordinarily interact with the secretary of state, the nation's top diplomat, not the attorney general, who is supposed to have a degree of independence from the White House. Let me ask you about President Trump mentioning. He says, whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. And there is no mention of Rudy Giuliani talking about that. Biden bragged about stopping this prosecutor. And then only later, the president says, and, oh, by the way, there was - you know, Mr. And then the - President Zelenskiy says, OK, yeah, you know, we will investigate that company. And there was a question about whether the investigation was correct. That it is the company that helped investigate the Russian hack of the 2016 election.
SHAPIRO: Our listeners have not heard of CrowdStrike, so I need to explain to them. SHAPIRO: There is a passing reference to CrowdStrike. The president says, I'd like to do you a - I'd like you to do us a favor, but then talks about CrowdStrike. HARRIS: Actually, let's put it in context, and that's why I urge your listeners to read it for themselves. And he asks the Ukrainian president to talk with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, not the secretary of state, who would be the ordinary channel for these kinds of conversations. And then a few minutes later, he says there's a lot of talk about Biden's son. Then, a few minutes later, he says, I would like you to do us a favor. SHAPIRO: First, the president says, we do a lot for Ukraine. SHAPIRO: Well, let's go through this account of the call. And the real ask that the president made was actually to investigate CrowdStrike. So again, I urge all of your listeners, go read the transcript for yourself, and what you'll realize is that exactly what the Ukrainian president said is right. And one reads the transcript, and it's - that's not at all what it says.
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You know, the play up to this by the speaker of the House yesterday basically made one think that this was entirely about Vice President Biden and, somehow, there was a quid pro quo, you know, withholding - explicitly withholding defense money in order to initiate the investigation. Does anything in this account concern you? The White House has now released this memo describing the call. SHAPIRO: You had wanted to see the transcript of President Trump's call with the Ukrainian leader. Congressman, we have invited a lot of Republicans to speak with us on the program today, and we had many no responses, so we appreciate your joining us this afternoon. Some Republicans on Capitol Hill are defending the president today, like Congressman Andy Harris of Maryland, who is a co-chair of the House Ukraine Caucus.
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