The President, Joe Biden and Ukraine

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Over the weekend, reports of a secret whistle-blower complaint against President Trump turned into allegations that the president had courted foreign interference from Ukraine to hurt a leading Democratic rival, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Mr. Trump called the allegations a “witch hunt” and accused Mr. Biden of corruption. Guest: Michael S. Schmidt, who covers national security and federal investigations for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: President Trump acknowledged that he discussed Mr. Biden during a phone call with Ukraine’s president, but he did not directly confirm news reports that he had pressured the foreign leader for an investigation.Here’s what we know about the role of Mr. Biden and his son Hunter in the controversy.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, unlike Obavaro, this is the Daily.
0:10.0	Over the weekend, reports of an unknown whistleblower
0:14.0	with unnamed complaints against the President
0:17.0	turned into allegations that President Trump
0:20.0	courted foreign interference from Ukraine
0:23.0	to hurt his leaving Democratic rival, Joe Biden.
0:27.0	The President is calling it a witch hunt
0:30.0	and saying it's bite who is engaged in corruption.
0:35.0	Mike Schmidt, on whether Ukraine is shaping up
0:39.0	to be the Russia of 2020.
0:44.0	It's Monday, September 23rd.
0:51.0	Mike, take me back to when you first learn
0:55.0	about this whistleblower complaint.
0:57.0	So, earlier this month, we started to hear
1:02.0	that there was a whistleblower that had some type of information
1:07.0	and that Capitol Hill was struggling to get their hands on it.
1:12.0	Okay.
1:13.0	And then, last Wednesday, the Washington Post reported
1:18.0	that that complaint came from someone
1:22.0	in the intelligence community and it involved contact
1:27.0	between the President and a foreign leader.
1:35.0	So, what'd you do?
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