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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said on Tuesday that he believed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was feeling pressure from Rudy Giuliani to investigate the Bidens. Murphy, in a letter to the leaders of the House impeachment inquiry, said he raised Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, in a meeting with the Ukraine leader in September and explained that he had heard reports that "Zelensky was being asked to become an actor in U.S. domestic politics." "President Zelensky said he understood, and represented to us that he had no desire to interfere in a U.S. election. I interpreted Zelensky's answer to my question...

a group of Democratic senators took cash from a Ukraine lobbyist to push Ukrainian gas interests at the same time the Democrats are pushing the Trump-Ukraine yarn. ... Remember Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's business partner? .. previously been a top fundraiser for John Kerry, who was Secretary of State at the time. And soon after Devon and Hunter joined the Burisma Board, the company channeled $90,000 to a lobbying firm called ML Strategies, which was headed by none other than David Leiter, John Kerry's former chief of staff. That's handy because then-Secretary of State John Kerry himself has visited Ukraine...

Serhiy Leshchenko, the Ukrainian MP who leaked evidence of Paul Manafort’s systematic corruption to The New York Times, kicking off the latest round of Trump-Russia scandals, is a former investigative journalist famed for his pedantic and forensic habits in parliament. . .Leshchenko and some of his journalist reformer friends, such as Mustafa Nayem, were brought into Ukraine’s parliament by President Petro Poroshenko on his winning parliamentary slate in 2014 as a way of showcasing his reformist credentials. Leshchenko has since become a fierce critic of Poroshenko, whose parliamentary faction he has never left. . .[Q:] Let’s return to Paul Manafort....