#shorts On 11/29/2022, New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz got into a heated exchange after Shaheen shut down Cruz’s questions for an ambassador nominee concerning allegations that then Vice President Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian officials to fire the country’s top prosecutor in 2016. Cruz asked Kent, “Do you think Joe Biden holding a billion dollars hostage to force the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor that is investigating the corrupt oligarch who’s paying his son a million dollars a year? Did getting that prosecutor fired benefit that oligarch?”
However, before the nominee could answer, Shaheen intervened. “Are you going to allow him to answer the question, Madam Chairman?” Cruz asked.
“I am not going to allow him to answer the question,” Shaheen replied.
“Why are you covering for the vice president? Do you not want to answer that question?” Cruz followed up. Shaheen responded by saying she thought it was “unfortunate” that Cruz was putting Biden’s ambassador nominees in “uncomfortable” positions. Cruz again accused Shaheen of covering for Biden. “Was his testimony true or false that Biden did nothing to benefit the oligarch? Let him answer the question. Why are you afraid of him answering the question?”
“I’m not,” Shaheen said. “I just want to move on.” However, Cruz pushed for Kent to be allowed to answer his “yes or no” question, to which Shaheen finally assented. “The prosecutor who was fired by the Ukrainian Parliament did nothing to investigate Zlochevsky and everything the Vice President Biden, the State Department and the U.S. Embassy did acted in good faith to reduce corruption and help the Ukrainians,” Kent told Cruz. “So firing him did not benefit the oligarch?” Cruz asked, but Shaheen ended his time and moved on. “You’re protecting the president well,” Cruz told her.
other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/OdDGpttYJMk
Q: Corrupt oligarch paying Biden son a million dollars a year? A: “not allow him to answer question”