Mr. Chairman. What purpose ir trying the last word. The gentleman strikes the lastem word. Recognized. Thank you. I yield to the rankingst member just real quickly, the gent thely lady from california stat something irn addressed head on last night. Undersecretary haleig said it w perspective money, not interfering or dealing with the issue. For those of us who have been in a war zone people do die. This money did not stop that. That is something that cannot be continuedme to perpetrated on ts world. Reclaiming my time. Theec difference in the Clinton Impeachment and this one, president clinton committed a crime, perjury, this president isnt accused of committing a crime. The constitution is prettymi clr on what constitution impeachable offense, treason, bribery and other High Crimes And Misdemeanors. Its not treason, bribery, other High Crimes And Misdemeanors and adam schiff an nancy pelosi deem impeachable. No president should abuse the
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i think it is unfortunate when the gentleman from rhode island talks about the president sending mr. giuliani to ukraine to smear vice president biden, let s talk about what vice president biden did. his son sat on a board and made an outrageous amount of money for someone that had no background in energy,at no background in the ukraine, while his father was the vice president. if that is not a fair for discussion in the world of politics i don t know what is. smearing is trying to conjure up false information or making a vague argument based on false information. this isn t smearing. this is seeking the truth about corruption. not a single member on the other side of the aisle has been willing to condemn the conduct of the former vice president. how frustrating it must be to be president trump and have your
us. it is obvious to me that this president has put his personal interests above this country. and with that i will yield back to the gentleman from rhode island. i thank the gentle lady for yielding. we ve just heard our republican colleagues claim that there was no demand, no conditionality for the release of this aids and, in fact it was motivated by the president s deep desire to ferret out corruption. that is laughable. the president of the united states had two phone calls with president zelensky. he never once uttered the word corruption. because it wasn t about corruption and the reason we know that is the department of defense had already certified that steps had been taken to combat corruption back on may 23rd and despite that certification, that hold
answer. on july 25th, another call. president president trump and president zelensky. the word corruption is not mentioned once, but here s what was said. zelensky talks about the defense. and the immediate response is, do us a favor, though. president trump says, i need you to look into some things. not related to procurement of defense arms, but related to a wild conspiracy theory connected to the 2016 campaign and also says, i want you to look into joe biden. then what s interesting, since you thinks it was such a perfe call, he mentions rudolph giuliani. i m looking at the transcripton right now, not once, not twice, three times, why on an official call would the president mention
under certain conditions before they released military aid to determine whether or not a country had satisfied those requirements around corruption and the department of defense released that report. nowhere between the time that donald trump withheld aid and the time that he released that aid was there an additional assessment required or done. the department of defense decided they didn t need to do another d assessment because th had already done the assessment. at the end of the day, i have onlyy, two questions for my colleagues on the other side and these are the two questions. forget about president trump, forget about president trump, will any one of my colleagues on the other side say that it is an abuset of power to condition a to condition aid on official acts? will -ing for about president