mccarthy is leading a delegation to the southern border tomorrow along with congressman stefanik who was originally scheduled to be on this program. he says the president s policies are only making the situation worse. what do you hope to come from this? i know the border. i have seen it many times. this is the absolute worst i have ever seen it. 2.5 million people coming in. who is coming in? we don t even know. now we re going to let them in as we debate a covid package, let them in without even being tested. when i traveled abroad, i have to be tested before i come back into the country. they re criminals like the two traffickers that the texas national guard tried to save and then drowned, you know, in the process. you know, what s even worse are these fentanyls. we ve apprehended enough fentanyls to kill the entire population in the united states seven times over. my oldest daughter has been to
good his english was. i wasn t sure if perhaps mr. holmes might be able to reflect on that as to whether he was, you know, having points of clarification from the aid. we understood what was happening. yeah. so i wasn t entirely sure if he was following all of the back and forth. mr. did you know luecdanylyuk we alarm. he was more alarmed there was this back and forth between ambassador sondland and colonel vindman than with me about this meeting. clearly wanted to have this meeting and here are officials arguing about the meetings in front of him that was obviously very uncomfortable for him. did you have any follow-up to that, sir? just add that danylyuk speaks perfect english yermak can get by in meetings but often does ask for clarifications. given the time i would yield back. miss stefanik? before i turn to our witnesses, i just wanted to say to my democratic colleagues not a single republican member of this committee has said that russia did not meddle in the
which is our president, which is unfortunate. i m especially disheartened by his treatment of women and i think that the fact of the matter is there is a long line of strong, talented women who have been smeared and victimized by this president and we can either choose to ignore it or do something about it. and, frankly, i think that whether you voted for him or whether you supported him or not, that doing so is wrong. you could simply just remove someone. you don t have to smear them. thank you. i yield back my time. mr. turner? i just want to echo that sentiment and certainly lament the attacks that have been levied against our colleague elise stefanik on this panel which have been vile and hateful. for those of you keeping score at home, the effort to accuse our president of coercion, extortion, or bribery, with these witnesses as we now come to the closing session of this, basically break down as follows: we have kent and
again, that was perfectly within the rights of the president. sometimes it s highly viable, in fact, to emphasize to a country just exactly how close the relationship is-likely to be, to have an appointee who is close to the president, if it s an important relationship. but what was disparaging was all of the accusations that were being fired as the ambassador yovanovitch, leading her to be treated, including by members of the president s family. we all firmly believe that mr. giuliani and others, including the people who were recently indicted, the ukrainian american gentleman had for some reason decided that ambassador yovanovitch was some kind of personal problem for them. and that they had then decided to engage in just the kinds of things we have been discussing about and frankly she was an easy target as a woman. and i m very sorry to hear about what s happened to congressman stefanik. this illustrates point and the problem that we are dealing with here today.
giuliani feeding these things to him to change the statement that the ukrainian president was supposed to say. point being we appreciate that ambassador volker came forward and made clear what he knows it s wrong to ask for an investigation of the bidens. big member with volker from the other side, congressman stefanik. here s a little bit of their exchange. was there any reference to withholding aid? no. to bribery? no, to quid pro quo in. no, there was not. any reference to exextortion no, there was not. did your ukrainian counterparts mention the withholding of aid? no, they did not. any quid pro quo. no, they did not. did they mention bribery. no, they did not. the day after the call you met with president zelensky on july 26. in that meeting he made no mention of quid pro quo. no. he made no mention of