What weve been discussing w today, which involved in a regular channel, was a request that went against u. S. Policy that have have undermined the rule of law and our longstanding policy goals in ukraine, as in other countries in the postsoviet space. Those policies which were indeed championed by ambassador yovanovitch. You also testified on october 15th in the deposition about fundamental reforms necessary for ukraine to fight corruption and to transform the country. And you t cited the importance reforming certain institutions, notably was investigating President Trumps political opponents a part of those necessary reforms . Was it on that list of yours or indeed was it on any list . No, they werent. In fact, historically, is it not true that a major problem in the ukraine has been its misuse
of prosecutors, precisely to conduct investigation of political opponents. Thats a legacy i dare suggest from the soviet era when, as you stated in your testimony, prosecutors like the kgb were
Discussing today which involved an irregular channel which is her request that went against u. S. Policy that would undermine the rule of law and our longstanding policy goals in ukraine as in other countries in the postsoviet space. Policies that were indeed championed by ambassador yovanovitch. You also testified in the deposition about fundamental reforms necessary for ukraine to fight corruption and to transform the country and you cited the importance of reforming certain institutions, notably security service. Was investigating President Trumps political opponents a part of those necessary reforms . Was it on that list of yours and was it on any list . No, they werent. In fact, historically is it not true than a major problem in the ukraine is bennetts misuse
of prosecutors, precisely to conduct an investigation of political opponents. Thats a legacy i dare suggest from the soviet era which as you said in your testimony prosecutors like the kgb were and i quote you now instrument
so a lot of people might look at this and say well, this deal stunk. i don t blame the president for wanting them investigated, never mind the fact that biden was one of the president s challengers for the white house. i think it was inappropriate for him to raise it on that call with ukraine, but a lot of people might look at it and say not a bad idea. the second thing, of course, is this. yes, the president at times seem to condition eight on that and other times, he did not. but let s assume for the sake of discussion here that the aide had continued to be withheld and russia amounted a devastating attack on ukraine. one that would have been greatly dollars worth of american aid been denied. that would ve put this in a different light. nothing like that happen, the aide indeed was provided and prior to that, javelin missiles was the obama administration had consistently refused to provide had been provided by the trump administration and a number of
times what is typical for a company of that size. and yet some are claiming that hunter biden was hired by burisma to assist with transparency and corporate reform. amazing. hilarious, actually, but also depressing because in the end, this isn t really about hunter biden. it s not actually really about the impeachment of the president. what you are seeing here, the story that is unfolding, a story about america s ruling class, some of which has been bought off by foreign entities. not surprisingly, in fact, because of that fact, that is the one thing that you are not supposed to ask about. so shut up and praise alexander vindman, potential ukrainian defense minister and american hero, that is your job as you are watching along. brit hume watched along all day, he is fox s senior political analyst and he joins us tonight. i m not impugning the integrity of alexander of inman but it did seem like one of those moments where watching at home, you are thinking, what? by the way, fits with
investigations, but you didn t know about the bidens, that s your testimony. i did not think he was talking about anything specific. you heard him talk about investigations and you thought there was an appropriate and the chairman asked you about that, and i guess when they were in the wardroom and ambassador s ambassador sondland raised that, you are concerned about that too. you knew it was withheld and then in august, you spent a good part of the time with this statement with rudy giuliani, right? you were the guy making the changes that interacting with ukrainians. you were putting in rudy s changes which included a call for investigating burisma and the 2016 elections, which you now know meant biden, right? you didn t know it at the time, right? now we know it, right? that on september 1st, you were in warsaw. you were in warsaw anywhere they were there when ambassador sondland told yermak that he was not going to get security