Truth. Those facts. This is so far off field, this is ispolitical. This is totally political. And it is a dangerous moment for our country that the doj has i mean, doesnt the meeting on the tarmac with bill clinton and the airplane look quaint now . Actually, thats a perfect it looks quaint. We have been talking about what feels like a frantic publicrelations effort. Two statements released from william barr on a report hes had for some time. An extraordinary report about ao open,t ongoing investigation. Some of the most sensitive intelligence and Law Enforcement in our country. And now, guess whos weighing in . Guess. Guess. Guess. Donald j. Trump. Lets listen. Okay. Thank you very much. The ig report just came out. And i was just briefed on it and its a disgrace whats happened with respect to the things that were done to our country. It should never again happen to another president. It is incredible. Far worse than i would have ever thought possible. And its its an embarrassment to
and not russia, interfered in the 2016 election. isn t that correct? that s right. and mr. giuliani told the reporter that his trip was not about official u.s. foreign policy. and that the information he sought would be very, very helpful to his client. meaning it would be helpful to president trump, is that correct? yes. it s not official foreign policy, it would beal helpful t president trump s personal interests. that s correct. and there is no doubt, mr. goldman, that investigations of the bidens and the 2016 election meddling were, in fact, not about u.s. policy. but were about benefitting trump s re-election, correct? yes, and even the ukrainians realize that. and on july 25th, president trump placed that fateful phone call to president zelensky. and he asked president zelensky to investigate the bidens, correct? yes.
and on that call, president trump told zelensky, quote, i will have mr. giuliani to give you a call. correct?gi that s right. and on october 2nd and october 3rd, president trump, once again, made explicit that he and mr. giuliani were intent on making these investigations happen. correct? yes.ns and just so you know, we ve been investigating on a personal basis through rudy and others. lawyers. corruption in the 2016 election. well, i would think that if they were honesthi about it, they d start a major investigation into the bidens. it s a very simple answer. mr. goldman, the evidence shows a course of conduct by president trump and his agents, does it not? it does. and clearly, it continued long after our investigation began. it shows a common plan.
investigation. ignoring the facts. nothe letting the whistle-blowe come in. and,e therefore, not letting u know if we ve talked to more than half a dozen sources for the whistle-blower s complaint in the first place. the guy who has to file an addendum with that clarification sentence. but one thing they did do. onece thing they did do in thei report. is they published the phone records of the president s personal lawyer. the phone records of a member of the press. and the phone records of the chairman of the intelligence committee s political opponent, representative nunes. that s what these guys did and that sys their effort to impeac the president of the united states 11 months before an election. gentleman gentleman s time has expired. mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent. mr. chairman, i d like to focus on the facts of the president s abuse of power. gentlemen. gentlemen. gentleman. i d ask unanimous consent that the report by the majority staff of the house committee
the majority report on page 13 says the u.s. intelligence community had unanimously determined that russia, not ukraine, interfered in the 2016 election to help the candidacy of president trump. mr. castor, it appears to be a conflict there. president trump is asking the ukraine to investigate something the majority has decided that it s an illegitimate request because there was no interference in an election by the iukraine. is that how you read this? yes. and the press release from the majority on their report says as part of this scheme president trump acting in his official capacity and using his position of public trust personally and directly requested that the president of ukraine, that the government of ukraine publicly announced investigations into sub section two a baseless theory promoted by russia alleging that ukraine rather than russia interfered in the 2016 u.s. election.