Fox News anchor Shep Smith said the real Ukraine scandal is not anything Joe Biden might have done: “There is no known evidence that Biden did anything wrong.”
He added: “The real issue here is the phone call. The claim that the President pressured a foreign leader to investigate a political rival and the failure to pass the whistleblower complaint to Congress.”
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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.