Nothing to see here. Joe Biden at CFR...
"I remember going over convincing our team, our others, to convince that we should be providing loan guarantees. I went over, I guess, for the twelfth or thirteenth time to Kiev and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion dollar loan guarantee. And I'd gotten a commitment from Porshenko and Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't. So they were walking out to the press(conference) and I said, 'No, we're not going to give you the billion dollars.'
"They said, 'You have no authority, you're not the president. The president said...'
"And I said 'call him.' I said, 'I'm telling you that you're not getting that billion dollars. I said you're not getting a billion dollars and I'm going to be leaving here in about six hours, I'm leaving in six hours. If that prosecutor is not fired in six hours, you're not getting the money.' Well, son of a bitch. He got fired."
"I remember going over convincing our team, our others, to convince that we should be providing loan guarantees. I went over, I guess, for the twelfth or thirteenth time to Kiev and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion dollar loan guarantee. And I'd gotten a commitment from Porshenko and Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't. So they were walking out to the press(conference) and I said, 'No, we're not going to give you the billion dollars.'
"They said, 'You have no authority, you're not the president. The president said...'
"And I said 'call him.' I said, 'I'm telling you that you're not getting that billion dollars. I said you're not getting a billion dollars and I'm going to be leaving here in about six hours, I'm leaving in six hours. If that prosecutor is not fired in six hours, you're not getting the money.' Well, son of a bitch. He got fired."
