Democratic senator: 'No doubt' Ukraine 'felt pressure'
Source: Politico
No doubt they felt pressure. Of course they would feel pressure, Murphy a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on CNNs State of the Union. And, of course, Zelensky is going to try to put the best spin on this that he can because he is still in a dependent relationship with the United States.
Murphy said it had been an open secret that personal Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was going to ask Zelensky to investigate the Bidens.
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On Sunday, Vice President Mike Pence dodged saying whether he thought officials connecting U.S. aid to the request for a Biden investigation were lying in their testimony.
"I can only tell you what I know," he said on CBS, again denying any quid pro quo.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/27/murphy-trump-ukraine-pressure-059172
Putting some daylight on VP's Ukraine question dodges this morning about his knowledge of U.S. bribery and extortion plot.
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