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Today, Explained

Meanwhile in Ukraine....

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Ukraine finds itself at the center of the American impeachment drama, but President Trump is the least of the country's worries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You've heard about the phone call, you've skimmed the partial transcript, but maybe this

0:12.4

whole time you've just wanted to hear the president say it.

0:17.2

And today is your day.

0:19.6

So I would say that President Zelensky, it were me, I would recommend that they start an

0:26.2

investigation into the Biden's because nobody has any doubt that they weren't crooked.

0:32.3

That was a crooked deal, 100%.

0:34.6

Yeah, that's the sound of the president of the United States asking a foreign country to help

0:41.3

take down his political rival from the self-law of the White House, no less.

0:46.8

An impeachment inquiry is evidently not enough to deter President Donald Trump from what he

0:53.1

really wants, dirt on Joe and Hunter Biden from Ukraine.

1:11.9

We call Darya Kolenuk in Kiev to find out what it's like for Ukrainians to find themselves

1:18.4

in the center of an American impeachment scandal.

1:22.2

I am executive director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center.

1:25.6

And what does that mean?

1:27.8

We are doing watchdog work, our government and our authorities, we expose corruption

1:33.1

and we advocate for change.

1:34.8

I asked her to tell me as best she could, how this mess with Hunter Biden and Ukraine got started.

1:42.4

It's very important to talk about corruption.

1:44.8

If you don't talk about corruption, why would you get money to a country that you think is corrupt?

1:50.9

Five years ago, we had people protesting against a creative regime of Victor Yanukovych.

1:57.1

She said we had to begin with Ukraine's former president.

2:02.2

In 2014, Ukrainians sick of corruption revolting.

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