From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is The Daily.

Today, in the phone call at the center of the impeachment inquiry,

President Trump asked Ukraine for two different investigations,

scotching on the unexpected story behind one of them.

It's Tuesday, November 26th.

We are joined right now. It was our great pleasure to welcome the President of the United

States, Donald Trump. Call him in. Mr. Trump, good morning. Good morning. Good to have you on

Fox and Friends today. So on Friday, President Trump called in to Fox and Friends, one of his

favorite shows on Fox News. And what ensued was really a 53-minute stream of consciousness.

This was spying on my campaign, something that has never been done in the history of our country.

This is the thought I was going to win and they said, how can we stop them?

You know, a lot of people say deep state. I don't like to use the word deep state. I just say

they're really bad and sick people. Mr. President, you used to say that.

And one of the things he talked about was a theory that's really at the heart of the impeachment

inquiry. It's very interesting. They have the server right from the DNC Democratic National Committee.

Who has the server? The FBI one and they told him, get out of here. You're not kidding. We're

not giving it to you. They gave the server to CrowdStrike or whatever it's called, which is a country,

which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian. And it was the same theory that he brought up

with the President of Ukraine, President Zelensky, in this famous phone call on July 25th.

The theory, the false theory, is that Ukraine and not Russia was responsible for the hacking of the

2016 election and that Ukraine was assisted in this by a company called CrowdStrike.

Scott, what would make the President believe this theory and mention this company by name?

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