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MULVANEY: He’s like, “Look, this is a corrupt place. I don’t want to send them a bunch of money and...have them use it to line their own pockets”...Did he also mention to me in pass the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely... whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…
“...No question about that. But that’s it. And that’s why we held up the money. Now, there was a report —

Q So the demand for an investigation into the Democrats was part of the reason that he ordered to withhold funding to Ukraine?
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MULVANEY: The look back to what happened in 2016 —

Q The investigation into Democrats.

MULVANEY: — certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation. And that is absolutely appropriate. ...

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Q But to be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo. It is: Funding will not flow unless the investigation into the Democratic server happens as well.

MULVANEY: We do that all the time with foreign policy. ...

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...McKinney said yesterday that he was really upset with the political influence in foreign policy. That was one of the reasons he was so upset about this. And I have news for everybody: Get over it. There’s going to be political influence in foreign policy. ...

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MULVANEY: I was involved with the process by which the money was held up temporarily, ok? 3 issues for that: the corruption of the country; whether or not other countries were participating...; and whether or not they were cooperating in an ongoing investigation with our (DOJ)
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