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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    White House withheld aid to Ukraine for political reasons

    Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney today announced that President Trump awarded next year’s G7 Summit of world leaders to his own resort near Miami.  Mulveney also confirmed that the White House held up military aid to Ukraine…

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    KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Oct 17, 2019 • 1 min read

    Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney today announced that President Trump awarded next year’s G7 Summit of world leaders to his own resort near Miami.

    Mulveney also confirmed that the White House held up military aid to Ukraine partly because the president wanted the country to investigate the 2016 election. The confirmation seems to undercut what Trump has been saying since the transcript of his phone call with the Ukranian president was released: that there was no quid pro quo when it came to military aid for Ukraine.

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      Barbara Bogaev

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      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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    The full episode

    2 of 4
    White House held up aid to Ukraine for political reasons
    1. 0:00Turkey agrees to a ceasefire in Syria. What is the Pentagon’s new strategy in the region?
    2. 10:04White House withheld aid to Ukraine for political reasonsYou’re reading this
    3. 18:43Iranian American artist Shirin Neshat opens the largest US exhibit yet
    4. 32:52‘Parasite’ director Bong Joon Ho on class conflict and drawing from Hitchcock
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