the most egregious of all of the charges in the articles of impeachment, and that is that the president of the united states withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid from an ally at war to help secure that nation's help to cheat in the next election. now, let me make one other point, though, very clear. we already have testimony on this key pernicious charge against the president. and that testimony has been consistent and uniform and uncontested. when the president's counsel says, as they did on the senate floor, that there is no direct evidence the president ever told someone he was conditioning the aid on these investigations, that's just not correct. he told mick mulvaney and mick mulvaney admitted it publicly, and that was part of the reason they held up the money.