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[MUSIC] When

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the house managers gave you their
presentation, when they submitted their...

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referenced Hunter Biden and Burisma. They
spoke to you for over 21

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hours, and they referenced Biden or or
barisma over 400 times.

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And when they gave these presentations, they
said there was nothing,

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nothing to see, it was a sham. This is
fiction.

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In their trial memorandum, the house managers
described this as baseless.

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Now, why did they say that? Why did they
invoke Biden or Barisma over 400 times?

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Here are just a few of the public sources
that flagged questions surrounding this ve...

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The United Kingdom's serious fraud office,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

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George Kent, Hunter Biden's former business
associate, and ABC White House

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reporter, Good Morning America, ABC, The
Washington Post, The New York

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Times, Ukrainian law enforcement, and the
Obama State Department itself.

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They all raised this issue. We would prefer
not to be talking about the issue.

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about this. We would prefer not to be
discussing this.

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But the house managers have placed this
squarely at issue, so we must address it.

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Let's look at the facts. In early 2014, Joe
Biden, our vice president of

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the United States, led the United States
foreign policy in Ukraine.

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They made, I mean, I'll give you one concrete
example.

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I was not I, but it just happened to be that
was the assignment I got.

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I got all the good ones. And so I got
Ukraine.

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With the goal of rooting out corruption.
According to an annual study published by...

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this time, Ukraine was one of the most
corrupt countries in the entire world.

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In Ukraine, there's a natural gas company
called barisma.

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Barisma has been owned by an oligarch named
Mikola Solchevsky.

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Here's what happened, very shortly after Vice
President Biden was made U.

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S. point man for Ukraine. His son Hunter
Biden ends up on the board

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of barisma, working for and paid by the
oligarch Solchevsky.

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In February, 2014 in the wake of
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Zolchevsky flees the country, flees Ukraine.

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Zolchevsky, the oligarch, is well known.

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George Kent, the very first witness that the
Democrats called during their public

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hearings, testified Zolchevsky stood out for
his self-dealings even

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among other oligarchs. House managers didn't
tell you that.

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Ambassador Kurt Volkler explained that
Barisma had a "very bad reputation

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" as a company for corruption and money
laundering. House

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managers didn't tell you that. Barisma was so
corrupt that George Kent said

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he intervened to prevent USAID from
cosponsoring an event with Burisma.

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You know what this event was? It was a
child's contest and the prize was a camera.

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They were so bad, Burisma, that our country
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cosponsor a children's event with Burisma.

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In March 2014, the United Kingdom Serious
Fraud Office opens a money laundering...

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the oligarch, Solczewskiy, and his company,
Burisma.

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The very next month, April 2014, according to
a public report, Hunter

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Biden quietly joins the board of Burisma.
Remember, early 2014

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was when Vice President Biden began leading
Ukraine policy. Here's how Hunter Biden came

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to join barice miss board in April 2014. He
was brought on the board by Devin Archer, ...

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Devin Archer was college roommates with Chris
Hines, stepson of Secretary of State John...

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All three men, Hunter Biden, Devin Archer and
Chris Hines had all started an investment...

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Public records show that April 16, 2014,
Devin Archer meets with

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Vice President Biden at the White House. Just
two days later, on April

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18, 2014, is when Hunter Biden quietly joins
Burisma, according to public reporting.

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Remember, this is just one month after the
United Kingdom's serious fraud office opened

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a money laundering case into barisma. Hunter
Biden joins the board.

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And not only 10 days after Hunter Biden joins
the board, British

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authorities seized $23 million in British
bank accounts connected to the

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oligarch, Solchevsky, the owner of barisma.

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Did Hunter Biden leave the board then? No.
The British authorities also announced tha...

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had started a criminal investigation into
potential money laundering. Did Hunter Bid...

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No. What happened was then, only then did the
company

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choose to announce that Hunter Biden had
joined the board after the

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assets of Barisma and his oligarch owner,
Zolcevsky, were

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frozen and a criminal investigation had
begun. I think people at home are thinking...

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Or you wouldn't have felt just a little bit
in your gut, like, maybe this isn't a good...

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I I said that I said you in retrospect. I was
right. But at the time you never thought t...

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You know what? I'm a human. You know what?
Did I make a mistake?

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Well, maybe in the grand scheme of things.
Yeah.

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So the mistake was giving your father's
political foes ammunition.

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Yeah. Hunter Biden's decision to join barisma
raised flags almost immediately.

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One article from May 2014 stated, "The
appointment of Joe Biden's son

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to the board of Ukrainian gas firm barisma
has raised eyebrows the world over

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." Even an outlet with bias for Democrats
pointed out Hunter Biden

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's activities created a conflict of interest
for Joe Biden. The article

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stated, "The move raises questions about a
potential conflict of interest for

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Joe Biden." And even Chris Hines, Hunter
Biden's own business partner, had grave...

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He thought that working with Burisma was
unacceptable, says Chris Hines.

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He was worried about the corruption, the
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So he wisely distances himself from Hunter
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's appointments to Barisma. He didn't simply
call his stepfather

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, secretary of state, and say, "I have a
problem with this." He didn't tell his...

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guys, I'm not getting on the board. I want
nothing to do with this." He went so far a...

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email to senior State Department officials
about this issue, says Chris Hines.

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He wrote, "Apparently, Devon and Hunter have
joined the Board of Barisma, and a press

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release went out today. I can't speak to why
they decided to, but there is no investment

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by our firm in their company. What did Hunter
Biden do?

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He stayed on the board. What did Chris Hines
do?

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He subsequently stopped doing business with
his college roommate, Devon

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Archer, and his friend Hunter Biden. Chris
Hein's spokesperson said

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the lack of judgment in this matter was a
major catalyst for Mr.

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Hein's ending his business relationship with
Mr. Archer and Mr.

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Biden. Now the media also noticed the same
day an ABC news reporter asked Obama White

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House Press Secretary Jay Carney about it.
Here's what happened.

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The Hunter Biden has now taken a position
with the largest oil and gas company holdi...

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Is there any concern about at least the
appearance of a conflict there?

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See the vice president's office. I would
refer you to the vice president's office.

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I saw those reports. Hunter Biden and other
members of the Biden family are obviously...

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citizens and where they work is not. does not
reflect an endorsement by the administration

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or by the vice president or president, but I
would refer you to the vice president's...

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The next day, the Washington Post ran a story
about it.

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It said, "The appointment of the vice
president's son to a Ukrainian oil

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board looks nepotistic at best, nefarious at
worst." Again, the appointment

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of the vice president's son to a Ukrainian
oil board looks nepotistic

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at best, nefarious at worst. And the media
didn't stop questioning, asking questions...

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It kept going. Here's ABC. "You have to fight
the cancer of corruption."

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But then something strange happens. Three
weeks later, a Ukrainian natural gas company

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, Burisma, accused of corruption, appoints
Hunter Biden, seen here in their promotion...

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board of directors, paying his firm more than
a million dollars a year.

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Here's more from ABC. Continue it on. And
Ukraine wasn't the only country where Hunt...

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It also happened in China. This video shows
Chinese diplomats greeting Vice President...

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he arrived in Beijing in December of 2013,
right by his side, his son Hunter.

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Less than two weeks later, Hunter's firm had
new business, creating an investment fund ...

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With reports, they hope to raise $1.5
billion.

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In fact, every witness who was asked about
Hunter Biden's involvement with Barisma

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agreed there was a potential appearance of a
conflict of interest.

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Multiple House Democrat witnesses, including
those from the Department of State, the...

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Security Council, and others unanimously
testified there was a potential appearance

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of a conflict of interest. These were their
witnesses. How much money did

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Hunter Biden get for being on the board?
Well, you start looking at this bank records

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according to reports between April 2014 and
October 2015, Burisma paid more than $3.

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1 million to Devon Archer and Hunter Biden.
That's over the course of a year and a half.

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How do we know this? Some of Devon Archer's
bank records were disclosed during an...

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case having nothing to do with Hunter Biden.
These bank records

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show 17 months that Burisma wired two
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333, not just for one month, for two months,
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, but for 17 months. According to Reuters,
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that of the two payments of $83,333, one was
for Hunter

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Biden and one Devon Archer. Now Hunter Biden
was paid significantly more than board...

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S. Fortune 100 companies, such as Goldman
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The typical board member of these Fortune 100
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tightens of their industry, they're highly
qualified, and as such they're well...

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Even Even so, Hunter Biden was paid
significantly more. This

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is how well he was compensated. So Hunter
Biden is paid over $83

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,000 a month, while the average American
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that time each year made less than $54,000.

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And that's according to U.S. Census Bureau
during that time.

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And this is what's been reported about his
work on the board.

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The Washington Post said, "What specific
duties Hunter Biden carried out for barism...

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known." The New Yorker reported, "Once or
twice a year he attended barisma board

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meetings and energy forums that took place in
Europe." And speaking with

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ABC News about his qualifications to be on
Barisma's board, Hunter Biden didn't point...

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What were your qualifications to be on the
board of Barisma? Well, I was vice chairma...

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I was the chairman of the board of the UN
World Food Program.

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I was a lawyer for Boy Schiller Flexner, one
of the most prestigious law firms in the...

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Bottom line is that I know that I was
completely qualified.

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Biden had no experience in natural gas, no
experience in the energy sector,

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no experience with Ukrainian regulatory
affairs. As far as we know, he doesn't spe...

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So, naturally, the media has asked questions
about his board membership.

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Why was Hunter Biden on this board? In the
list that you gave me of the reasons why...

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the fact that you were the son of the vice
president. What role do you think that...

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I think that it is impossible for me to be on
any of the boards that I just mentioned...

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If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think
you would have been asked to be on the boa...

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I don't know. I don't know. Probably not.

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So let's go back and talk about his time on
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Remember, he joined Burisma's board April
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had an open money laundering case against
Barisma and its owner, the oligarch...

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On August 20, 2014, four months later, the
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ates a money laundering investigation into
the same oligarch, Zolcevsky.

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This is one of 15 investigations into Burisma
and Zolcevsky, according

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to a recent public statement made by the
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On January 16, 2015, prosecutors put
Zolcevsky, the owner

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of Burisma, on whose Hunter Biden sat on his
board on the country's wanted list for fraud.

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while Hunter Biden's on the board. Then a
British court orders Solchevsky's $

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23 million in assets be unfrozen. Why was the
money unfrozen?

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Deputy Assistant Secretary Kent testified to
it. Somebody in the General Prose

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cutor's Office of Ukraine shut the case,
issued a letter to his lawyer, and that mo...

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So essentially paid a bribe to make the case
go away. That is our strong assumption.

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Yes, sir. He also testified that the
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's actions led to the unfreezing of the
assets.

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After George Kent's confirmation, that
prosecutor was out. Victor Shokin

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becomes the prosecutor general. This is the
prosecutor that you'll hear about later, t...

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that Vice President Biden has publicly said
he wanted out of office.

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I remember going over convincing our team,
our others, to convincing us that we shoul...

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And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time
to Keev, and I was supposed to announce

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that there was another billion dollar loan
guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from

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Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would
take action against the state prosecutor a...

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So they said they had they were walking out
to press conference and I said I'm not goi...

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In addition to flagging questions about
previous prosecutors actions, George Kent...

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This time to the vice president's office
about Hunter Biden.

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In February 2015, he raised concerns about
Hunter Biden. To vice president Biden's...

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In a briefing call with the national security
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my concern that Hunter Biden's status as a
board member could create the perception o...

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But house managers didn't tell you that. This
is all while Hunter Biden sat on Barisma's...

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Did Hunter Biden stop working for Barisma?
No. Did Vice President Biden stop leading ...

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Administration's foreign policy efforts in
Ukraine? No. In the meantime, Vice Preside...

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is still at the forefront of the US Ukraine
policy. He pledges a billion dollars loan...

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to Ukraine, contingent on its progress in
rooting out corruption.

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Around the same time of the $1 billion
announcement, other people raised

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the issue of a conflict. As Special Obama
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envoy for energy policy told the New Yorker,
it raised Hunter Biden

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's participation on the Board of Burisma, he
raised it directly with the Vice President...

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This is a special envoy to President Obama.
And the media had questions, too.

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December 8, 2015, The New York Times
publishes an article that Prosecutor Gener...

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Burisma and its owner, Solchevsky. The Times
report, here's their quote

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, "The The credibility of the Vice
President's anti-corruption message may ha...

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by the association of his son, Hunter Biden,
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And it wasn't just one reporter who asked
questions about the line between Burisma a...

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As we learned recently through reporting on
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, there was a meeting between Obama
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Ken Vogel, journalist for the New York Times,
asked the State Department about this...

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He wanted more information about the meeting,
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of barisma holdings in the United Kingdom and
Ukraine were discussed," end quote, but th...

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never ran. Around the time of the reported
story, January

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2016, meeting between the Obama
administration and Ukrainian officials too...

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to a Ukrainian press report as translated
says, quote, "The U.

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S. Department of State made it clear to the
Ukrainian authorities that it was linking

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the $1 billion in loan guarantees to the
dismissal of Prosecutor-General Viktor

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Shokin," end quote. Now we all know from the
Obama administration and from the words of...

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Biden himself, he advocated for the
prosecutor general's dismissal.

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There was ongoing investigation into the
oligarch Zolchevsky, the owner of barisma,...

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We know this, because on February 2nd, 2016,
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general obtained a renewal of a court order
to seize the Ukrainian oligarchs assets.

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A Kiev post article published on February
4th, 2016, says the oligarch Zolchevsky is "s

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uspected of committing a criminal offense of
illicit enrichment." Over

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the next few weeks, the Vice President had
multiple calls with Ukraine's President...

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Days after the last call on February 4th,
2014, a DC consultant reached out to the...

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Department to request a meeting to discuss
barisma. We know what she said because the...

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under the Freedom of Information Act. The
consultant explicitly invoked Hunter Biden...

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In an email summarizing the call, the State
Department official says that the consultant,

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quote, "noted that two high-profile citizens
are affiliated with the company, including

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Hunter Biden as a board member," end quote.
She added that the consultant would "like

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to talk with Under Secretary of State,
Novelli, about getting a better understand...

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S. came to the determination that the country
is corrupt." To be clear, this email...

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S. government had determined Burisma to be
corrupt. And the consultant was seeking

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a meeting with an extremely senior State
Department official to discuss the US...

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Her pitch for the meeting specifically used
Hunter Biden's name, and according to the...

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the meeting was set for a few days later. And
later that month, on March 29

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, 2016, the Ukrainian parliament finally
votes to to fire the

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Prosecutor General. This is the Prosecutor
General investigating the oligarch, owner ...

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, on whose board Hunter Biden set. Two days
after the Prosecutor General is voted out,...

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President Biden announces that the U.S. will
provide $335 million in security assistanc...

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He soon announces that the U.S. will provide
$1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine.

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Now let's talk about one of the Democrats
central witnesses, Ambassador Yovanovich.

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In May 2016, Ambassador Yovanovich was
nominated to be ambassador in Ukraine.

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Here's what happened when she was preparing
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Congresswoman Stefanik had asked you how the
Obama-Biden State Department had

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prepared you to answer questions about
barisma and hunter-biden specifically you...

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out of thousands of companies in the Ukraine
the only one that you recall the Obama-Bid...

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preparing to answer questions about was the
one where the vice president's son was on ...

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is that fair yes so she's being prepared to
come before

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all of you, all of you, and talk about world
issues going to be in

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charge of the Ukraine and what did they feel
the only company, the company that it was

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important to brief her on in case she got a
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Burisma. Ambassador Yovanovich was confirmed
July 2016

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as the Obama administration was coming to a
close. In September 2016, a Ukrainian cour...

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oligarch Zolchevsky's arrest warrant for lack
of progress in the case.

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In mid-January 2017, Burisma announces that
all legal proceedings against it, and Zol

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chevsky, have been closed. Both of these
things happened while Hunter Biden

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sat on the board of Burisma. this time Vice
President Biden leaves office.

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Years later now, former Vice President Biden
publicly details what we know happened, his

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threat to withhold more than a billion
dollars in loan guarantees unless Shokin w...

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Here's Vice President. I said, "We're not
going to give you the billion dollars." Th...

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You're not the the president, the president
said, I said, call him.

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I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting
the billion dollars.

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I said, you're not getting the billion. I'm
going to be leaving here.

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And I think it was what six hours. I looked
at him leaving six hours.

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If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not
getting the money.

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Well, son of a bitch, got fired. And they put
in place someone who was solid at the time.

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What he didn't say on that video, according
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This was the prosecutor investigating
Barisma. Shoken. What he also didn

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't say on the video was that his son was
being paid significant amounts by the ol

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igarch owner of Barisma to sit on that board.

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Only then does Hunter Biden leave the board.
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April 2019. Now on November 2019, Hunter
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signs an affidavit saying quote, he's been
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has no other monthly income since May 2019.
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2019, so we know from from after April 2019
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2019 through November 2019, he was unemployed
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. April 2019 to November 2019. Despite his
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media has continued to raise the issue
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On July 22, 2019, the Washington Post wrote
the fired prosecutor General

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Shokin, "believes his ouster was because of
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," referring to barisma. The Post further
wrote that,

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"had he remained In his post, he would have
questioned Hunter Biden.

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On July 25, 2019, three days later, President
with President Zelensky.

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He says, "The other thing, there's a lot of
talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped...

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, and a lot of people want to find out about
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So whatever you can do with this attorney
general would be great." Biden went around...

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he stopped the prosecution, so if you can
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In quote. The house managers talked about the
Bidens of Barisma 400 times, but

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they never gave you the full picture. But
here are those who did.

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The United Kingdom Serious Fraud Unit. Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State George Kent.

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Chris Hines. the ABC White House reporter,
ABC, Good Morning America

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, the Washington Post, the New York Times,
Ukrainian law enforcement, and the

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Obama State Department itself. They all
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the issue about the Bidens and Burisma. Now
the house managers might say

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without evidence that everything we just have
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and unequivocally in the other direction.
That is a distraction.

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You've heard from the house managers, they do
not believe that there was any concern to...

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that all of this was baseless. And all we are
saying is that there was a basis

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to talk about this, to raise this issue. >>
And Mr.

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President, Joe Biden, congratulations on
getting the new prosecutor general.

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I know there's a lot more that has to be
done, but I really think that's good.

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And I understand you're working with the rod
in the coming days on a number of addition...

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But congratulations on installing the new
prosecutor general. It's going to be criti...

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repair the damage Chokin did. I'm a man of my
word.

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Now that new prosecutor general is in place,
we're ready to move forward in signing tha...

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I don't know whether you could either sign it
with our ambassador or if you came here, w...

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Or if you want, we're inviting Grosjeeman
here later.

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I'm going to be talking to him later this
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Not for that purpose. We're inviting him to
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And so I'll leave it up to you as to how you
want that done and when you want it done.

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I'm assuming that there is a new government
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I am prepared to do a public signing of a
commitment for

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the billion dollars. (

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dramatic music) (

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upbeat music)