The OP obviously doesn't realize that CNN is an arm of the DNC. From the OP's link:
"All we need from the President [Zelensky] is to say, I'm gonna put an honest prosecutor in charge, he's gonna investigate and dig up the evidence, that presently exists and is there any other evidence about involvement of the 2016 election, and then the Biden thing has to be run out," Giuliani said, according to the audio. "... Somebody in Ukraine's gotta take that seriously."
The new audio demonstrates how Giuliani aggressively cajoled the Ukrainians to do Trump's bidding. And it undermines Trump's
oft-repeated assertion that "there was no quid pro quo" where Zelensky could secure US government support if he did political favors for Trump.
That there that I put in italics is not supported by the statement they published just above. Honesly do any of you TDSers actually READ what you post?
It's not difficult at all to see what was going on. In fact, it's very easy.
Despite the fact that Trump called Biden weak, among other names like Sleepy Joe, he understood that Biden was his most formidable potential opponent. As a consequence, Trump wanted to sully Biden's name in the minds of the American electorate which could very well cost him hundreds of thousands of votes, if not millions. But the American judicial system was not going to engage in a sham investigation because evidence is required, and a politically motivated prosecution could lead to corruption charges, disbarment, and prison time for anyone who participated in such a scheme.
But Ukraine had a history of corruption, and they were also desperate for US military and financial aid. As a result, Trump used his personal attorney working outside of any formal gov't authority like the State Dept. to convey a quid pro quo message to Ukrainian President Zelensky about how to smooth the way to get the aid his country desperately needed. This is a good place to note that Giuliani wasn't trying to get Zelensky to actually really DO anything. He was instructing Zelensky on what to SAY, including the dubious claim that the evidence already existed.
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"All we need from the President [Zelensky] is to say, I'm gonna put an honest prosecutor in charge, he's gonna investigate and dig up the evidence, that presently exists and is there any other evidence about involvement of the 2016 election, and then the Biden thing has to be run out,"}
But that wasn't quite enough for Trump because he also wanted the Ukrainians to admit to interfering in the 2016 election against Trump despite the fact that they weren't involved at all. Finally, Giuliani said that "the Biden thing has to be run out" meaning they wanted it to be dragged out as long as possible, preferably until the point that Biden lost the nomination to Bernie Sanders who Trump knew would be a much easier opponent to defeat, or up to the 2020 election just in case Biden won the nomination despite the smear campaign.
This was a full court press by Trump and Giuliani outside of any formal US Gov't avenues of contact between sovereign states. But the Ukrainians didn't take the bait, and Trump continued to withhold the aid until a formal abuse of power complaint was made by Major Vindman who had listened in on the call at which point Trump knew that the cat was out of the bag, so to speak, and he released the previously approved military aid in an effort to make it appear that there was no quid pro quo.
See how easy that was!