CNN anchor Brianna Keilar accused Vice President Mike Pence of lying about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s connections with Ukraine.
Minutes before Keilar’s accusation, which came on her show Thursday afternoon, Pence told reporters that the relationship between Biden and Ukraine is “worth looking into.”
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Pence went on, “I mean, the fact that my predecessor had a son who was paid $50,000 a month to be on a Ukrainian board at the time that Vice President Biden was leading the Obama administration’s efforts in Ukraine, I think, is worth looking into. And the president made it very clear that he believes our other nations around the world should look into it as well.”
The connection between Biden and Ukraine are under a renewed light following the revelation that Trump requested Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate him and his son Hunter. Hunter Biden spent time on the board of a gas company in Ukraine that faced allegations of corruption, however he was never implicated in any illegal activity. The elder Biden threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine if they didn’t fire the prosecutor who was investigating his company while he was serving as vice president.
Keilar, who had Dana Bash and Chris Cillizza on with her to discuss Pence’s remarks, began by saying he was there in “discomfort.”
Bash then claimed that the vice president would “probably rather be having a root canal.”
Keilar later added, “Pence is — and I know, and you know, and we all know for having covered Pence for so long — that Pence is lying, and that he knows that he is, because he says that the president was raising issues that were appropriate. I do not believe that Mike Pence believes the president, in his heart of hearts or even, you know, just superficially believes that what the president was saying was appropriate.”
Bash agreed, saying that it’s “hard to imagine a Governor Pence, a House Republican Pence, under any other circumstances, any other president, seeing this exact conversation would say those things that it’s appropriate, but this is the, this is the cross that he bears.”
