Kamala Harris said that as president, she would likely prohibit the son or daughter of her vice president from serving on the board of a foreign energy company, as former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter did for a Ukrainian gas company.

"Probably not," the California senator and Democratic presidential hopeful said Saturday when asked whether she would allow her vice president's child to be on the board of a foreign oil company.

Impeachment inquiries center in part on President Trump asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a July phone call to look into then-Vice President Biden threatening to withhold U.S. aid to Ukraine if the country did not fire a prosecutor whose office opened an investigation a gas company that had Hunter Biden on its board. Reports of a whistleblower complaint that referenced the call prompted a wave of Democratic members of Congress and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to support a formal impeachment inquiry.

Harris quickly emphasized that she sees the issue of Hunter Biden's board position as a "distraction" from what she sees as Trump's wrongdoings.

"I think that the problem we've got, again, with this issue, is that it's a distraction from the fact that — look, as far as I'm concerned, leave Joe Biden alone. Just leave him alone on this issue of what this president has done that has been about corrupting America's democracy, being in cahoots with a foreign leader to yet again try and manipulate the election of the president of the United States," Harris said. "I'm not going to be distracted by what this president is trying to play."



VIDEO: @KamalaHarris is asked if she would allow the child of her VP serve on the board of a foreign oil company.



Harris: probably not...I'm not going to be distracted by what this President is trying to play which is a game



Harris defending @JoeBiden says "leave him alone" pic.twitter.com/BsgCFYnrDz — Tim Perry (@tperry518) September 29, 2019



Presidential hopeful and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said earlier this week that her ethics plan would not allow her vice president's child to serve on a foreign energy company's board before quickly backtracking and saying that she would have to "look at the the details."