this amendment strikes article 1 because article 1 ignores the truth. four facts, five meetings. we ve talked about it now for three months. four facts that have not changed, will not change, will never change and we ve known it since september 25th when the caltrans crypt was released. the call transcript shows no quid pro quo. even nadler said there was no quid pro quo in the call transcript. the two individuals on the call. they ve said no pushing or link whatsoever between security assistance money and any type of announcement of an investigation. we know that the ukrainians knew at the time of the call didn t know at the time of the call the aid had been held up and most importantly, most importantly we know the ukrainians took no action, no start of an investigation, no
sending the hard earned tax dollars of the american people to ukraine. that is what happened. the facts are very clear. you can make up all the stuff you want. the facts are on the president s side. they ve always been on the president s side. democrats keep saying to get the call, to get the meeting, to get the money there had to be an announcement. december 12th there is yet to be an announcement from ukraine for investigation into the burisma and bidens. it never need to happen. that wasn t the call. they got the meeting, and the money september 11th. the other thing i want to point out. i don t know how many times i ve heard the democrats talk about this one sentence the president said in the now famous caltrans crypt. i would like you to do us a favor, though. the democrats don t read the plain language. your star professor witness here last week talked about this being the royal we.