"Mr. Vice President, Was There a Clear Conflict of Interest?"

The Investigation

ABC News

News, Politics

3.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In a special bonus episode of "The Investigation," co-host Chris Vlasto along with senior reporter Matt Mosk interview ABC News Chief National Affairs Correspondent Tom Llamas about his groundbreaking investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine and China during his father's tenure as vice president. Llamas, who traveled to Ukraine and interviewed former government officials and politicians, later approaches the former vice president on the campaign trail, asking him "Was there a clear conflict of interest?"

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Investigation.
0:08.1	I'm Senior Executive Producer Chris Flastow.
0:10.8	I'm joined here by Tom Yamis, Chief National Affairs correspondent, and Matt Mosque, Senior
0:15.9	Investigative Reporter.
0:17.7	We're going to do something different today for almost every episode we've done. We have
0:21.6	focused primarily on Donald Trump and the Mueller investigation and the congressional
0:25.5	investigations into Donald Trump. But as the election season begins, we are now going to start
0:31.7	to investigate and look into the records of all the presidential candidates, and there are a lot of
0:37.0	them. Obviously, the man in front of all the presidential candidates, and there are a lot of them.
0:43.2	Obviously, the man in front of all the polls is Joe Biden, and Tom Yamis and Matt Mosque have spent the last few months investigating him.
0:46.3	And one of the things that has come up and risen to the top is his son Hunter Biden's
0:50.8	business dealings while he was vice president.
0:53.8	And now let's listen to Tom Yamis's
0:56.1	piece that aired on Good Morning America. Mr. Vice President, Tom Yamis with ABC News. How you doing?
1:00.5	Got a quick question for you. It's a question we tried to ask repeatedly. Can we ask you about Ukraine and
1:06.3	China? But kept getting blocked. Questions about foreign deals his son Hunter Biden pursued.
1:12.0	My father, Joe Biden.
1:13.8	In countries where Joe Biden was working as America's top diplomat.
1:19.1	In 2014, Ukrainians, sick of corruption, revolted.
1:25.0	Vice President Joe Biden went to Kiev to help the new government.
1:29.3	You have to fight the cancer of corruption.
1:33.3	But then something strange happened.
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