I don't think there's any question that both the President and Rudy Giuliani thought that it was important that the Ukraine conduct this investigation in order to give them something to go after on Joe Biden.
Panetta asserts that Trump and Giuliani aimed to use the Ukraine investigation to target Joe Biden politically.
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I think America will be back fighting Iran again in a few years, no matter what happens now.
I think it was Walter Mondale when he was asked about the legacy of the Carter administration, said something like, we told the truth, we followed the law and we preserve the peace.
And that is the danger here: that rather than bringing peace, it's going to bring more war.
Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.
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