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I'm not sure how I originally missed this story, but that video pointed me to some reports from Tuesday involving Mike Pence:
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pence-ukraine-us-withhold-aid-corruption-probe-2019-10
A lot of defenses I have seen regarding the funding that was being withheld, was that Ukraine never even knew that the funding was being withheld. There are many reasons to believe this is false, but this is perhaps the most damning. Pence was reportedly instructed by Trump to inform the President of Ukraine directly that this funding was being withheld.
This is just one example of a quid pro quo in this whole ordeal. There are other things that Trump was holding back and offering to Ukraine in exchange for a public commitment to this investigation, but the funding is the one that has drawn the most attention, so this story is pretty darn important.
It also deeply implicates Pence in this ordeal, despite the fact that he has been attempting to distance himself from it as much as possible.
