The long-awaited whistleblower report is declassified and released, but does it help Democrats in their impeachment efforts?

Plus, Trump fires back. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

These are days of breaking news, and the news is breaking a plenty this morning.

The whistleblower report that was so scrutinized and

examined and talked about in the past few days. Finally, it has been released to the public a declassified

version, which means very mild redactions in the whistleblower report. Now, remember, this whistleblower

report was basically the inception of the entire Ukraine scandal. So the whistleblower report was filed with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community

by a member of the intelligence community back on September 9th.

The Congress was notified about it on September 9th.

On September 11, President Trump restored aid to Ukraine.

And the whistleblower report was seen as sort of the be all end all in terms of the

beginning of the beginning of

the examination of President Trump's activities with regard to Ukraine. So as always, I want to

recap in 30 seconds what exactly we are talking about because this stuff gets very complex.

In 2016, Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States, was presiding over the withholding

of $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine. He was doing so explicitly

saying he wanted a certain prosecutor named Victor Shokin fired in Ukraine because he was widely

perceived to be corrupt. Now, at the same time, Shokin was allegedly investigating a company

on whose board Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was sitting. There have been reports since

that perhaps that investigation had

already been basically put down and was no longer active. Nonetheless, this raised a lot of

hackles and suspicions, especially in Trump world and with President Trump specifically.

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