The President acknowledged that he discussed Joe Biden in a July call with Ukraine's president as Democrats strengthened calls for investigation into Trump's contact with the foreign leader and party leadership warned of a new lawless chapter in the US
Trump, while speaking with reporters before departing the White House for events in Texas and Ohio, continued to defend his July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but said the 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate was discussed in the exchange."We had a great conversation.
"If the President is essentially withholding military aid at the same time that he is trying to browbeat a foreign leader into doing something illicit that is providing dirt on his opponent during a presidential campaign, then that may be the only remedy that is coequal to the evil that conduct represents," the California Democrat told CNN's Jake Tapper on"State of the Union," stopping short of calling on Congress to immediately launch proceedings.
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