Now, turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released, he calls the president , he actually sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said, im not ready to lift the aid. And they had this Senator Johnson. He writes a ten page letter, very detailed. And he gives some remarkable deta detail. And id like to read it, its on page 6. I add this is Senator Johnson speaking, i asked him whether there was some kind of arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. Without hesitation Senator Johnson says, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed. And he started cursing. And he said no way, President Trump said no way, i would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reaction here was adamant, vehement an
communications with the president, we tried to get him to list all the communications with the president, i think he gave us 6. and then when he was back at he walked us through each communication with the president. it was about the christmas party, when the president of finland was here. and then congresswoman speer asked him the same question in the open hearing. he said he talked to the president 20 times. so the record is mixed. i think my time is up, thank you both. i yield back. the gentleman mr. chairman, mr. chairman mr. chairman, mr. chairman, i move to recess for 30 minutes pursuant to clause a of rule 1 111. okay. the gentleman has moved to recess for how long? 30 minutes, sir. for 30 minutes.
momentum that pushed the rights for the lgbt community is now knocking on the door when it comes to equality for women. well, i mean look, it s 2017. and i think a lot of women are aghast that we re even phrasing it that way. but i don t necessarily disagree. and when it comes to charlie s point about a commission, i think it might actually be more impactful to just pass legislation. congresswoman speer and senator gillibrand have a pretty strong bill on this that has house backing, but not yet senate backing which is interesting when you consider the roy moore situation. and let s get some men there congress also part of those bills too, i think some might say. not only the female members of congress backing these bills. charlie, elana, jameill, thank you. still ahead, attorney general jeff sessions glrilled over his forgetfulness. after the break, we ll talk about the frustration over him slighting the seriousness of his
as to the photo it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn t. i shouldn t have done it. now, what is really interesting about this, and really important about this, kate, is that this is a member of congress, a sitting member of congress, who is now being named. we know that there have been a lot of conversations this week, in the last couple days, about current members of congress who have been accused of sexual harassment but they were unnamed. congresswoman jackie speier has been outspoken about the issue and revealed just this week that there was a democrat and a republican who have been accused of sexual harassment, but she has not named them. what s interesting is that tweeden, who wrote about this account, actually said that she met with congresswoman speer a couple weeks ago and when she heard congresswoman speer actually tell her own story about, you know, being on the receiving end of sexual harassment herself on capitol hill, that was an important moment in which tweeden d
and it was passed by the white house, but again, you re going to have $20 million in cuts, so you ll see a lot of these programs having closed their doors and we ll have to see over these next weeks as they try to restore some of these cuts whether or not these programs are included. congresswoman speer, what is the likelihood that something is done about sequestration where the economy, and i m thinking about housing, i m thinking about the dow at 15,000, i m thinking of a number of indicators that the whole economy is finally getting back on track and that the debt and deficit are being impacted favorably, might that now make it even more difficult to undo some of the sequestration cuts? i think it s going to make it more difficult. the revenues coming in in april were higher than expected, the actual costs and the movement to which we would get to the debt limit seemed to be slowing now. we will still get there but we ll have to raise the debt