Capitol hill record of selfcontradiction. His testimony was full of hearsay, conflicting accounts, ambiguity and contradiction. Discovered missing in the 20some odd pages of his Opening Statement were the word of the president. Something that went to the heart of the hearing. Something President Trump declared today rendering the dimms impeachment inquiry to be over. Sondland recalled a phone conversation he had with President Trump. I believe asked him, what do you want from ukraine. I keep hearing these ideas of theories. What do you want . It was a very short, abrupt conversation. He was not in a good mood. An just said i want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Lou he wants nothing, he wants no quid pro quo. End of story. Should be end of hearing, end of impeachment inquiry. We all know it wont be. That would make too much sense. Sit would be too honest a conclusion. As sondland himself said earlier. Hes not a friend of President Trump. What kind of friend would leave
And he may well have set a capitol hill record of selfcontradiction. His testimony was full of hearsay, conflicting accounts, ambiguity and contradiction. Discovered missing in the 20some odd pages of his Opening Statement were the word of the president. Something that went to the heart of the hearing. Something President Trump declared today rendering the dimms impeachment inquiry to be over. Sondland recalled a phone conversation he had with President Trump. I believe asked him, what do you want from ukraine. I keep hearing these ideas of theories. What do you want . It was a very short, abrupt conversation. He was not in a good mood. An just said i want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Lou he wants nothing, he wants no quid pro quo. End of story. Should be end of hearing, end of impeachment inquiry. We all know it wont be. That would make too much sense. Sit would be too honest a conclusion. As sondland himself said earlier. Hes not a friend of President Trump. What
Capitol hill record of selfcontradiction. His testimony was full of hearsay, conflicting accounts, ambiguity and contradiction. Discovered missing in the 20some odd pages of his Opening Statement were the word of the president. Something that went to the heart of the hearing. Something President Trump declared today rendering the dimms impeachment inquiry to be over. Sondland recalled a phone conversation he had with President Trump. I believe asked him, what do you want from ukraine. I keep hearing these ideas of theories. What do you want . It was a very short, abrupt conversation. He was not in a good mood. An just said i want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Lou he wants nothing, he wants no quid pro quo. End of story. Should be end of hearing, end of impeachment inquiry. We all know it wont be. That would make too much sense. Sit would be too honest a conclusion. As sondland himself said earlier. Hes not a friend of President Trump. What kind of friend would leave
Not abandon the kurdish partner forces. This is 20 minutes. Secretary esper good afternoon. General milley have been working with president and i have been working with President Trump on the middle east. We will provide an update on changes to the u. S. Posture in the region. Beginning with syria, we are opposed on greatly disappointed by the turkish decision to launch a unilateral military incursion into Northern Syria. This operation puts our stf partners in harms way, it risks the security of isis prison camps and will further destabilize the region. Wem the president on down, have communicated with the turks on this issue. I spoke with the Turkish Defense minister yesterday to express our strong opposition to turkish actions and reiterated the damage this is doing to our relationship. The chairman has similarly been in communication with his counterpart when turkey notified us of an imminent military operation, we relocated a contingent of less than 50 soldiers out of the immediat
Lights in here, because youre all going to be on tv. Cspan is taping tonight. Im kidding, youre not going to be on cspan, the speaker will be on cspan. When we get to the q a, they usually want to bring a mic down so they can record it. So if you have a question, just try to wait until they bring the mic to you so we dont have to repeat it. The speaker will repeat the questions so you can hear, but this is so they can hear it or however they work it. Our speaker tonight is david robarge, received a phd at columbia university. After teaching at columbia, banker david rockefeller, media studies at columbia, he joined the cia in 1989 and later became a political and leadership analyst on the middle east. Dr. Robarge moved to the cia history staff in 1996 and was appointed chief historian of the cia in 2005. Hes published several classified works as well as unclassified mono graphs on supersonic Reconnaissance Aircraft and intelligence the American Revolution and biography as director of C