US: Bondi pushes case for Biden, Burisma investigation

Impeachment attorney Pam Bondi presents the defense argument on why President Donald Trump's efforts to get Ukranian officials to investigation the Bidens and Burisma was valid.

Bondi's comments came during the second day of presentation by Trump's defense team in the impeachment trial.

At the same time Bondi was making her argument on the Senate floor, Vice President Mike Pence's office says he was not asked by President Donald Trump to raise the Biden family or Burisma in conversations with the president of Ukraine last year.

Pence's chief of staff Marc Short says in a statement that Trump “expressed concerns about corruption in Ukraine” in a meeting before Pence flew to Poland to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Short says: “At no time did I hear him tie aid to Ukraine to investigations into the Biden family or Burisma.”

Burisma is a Ukrainian gas company, and Joe Biden's son, Hunter, had been on the board of that company.

Short says Pence only discussed corruption in Ukraine and burden-sharing with other nations of aid to Ukraine - "because that’s what the President asked him to raise.”