I have taken this position especially you know since that basically says the Democrats took over the house that they don t have to cooperate and they continue that with this impeachment inquiry they told they told officials not to testify some of them some of the career people did go against them and went ahead and did that they have kept documents and they have just said the White House has taken this position that they don t have to comply with what Congress is asking and so and there was this question in all of some of the arguments that the Republicans were making was that that that the Congress should have done more to try to force people to testify that they should have done more to to kind of force the issue I think Democrats were looking at it and saying that it would just drag out and that s what they didn t want to happen because that s what happened with the Moeller inquiry it s kind of like the White House created a situation that allowed Republicans to say hey you re not
16 in 2020 elections and who consistently puts himself above Country House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler another house investigators say President Trump withheld $400000000.00 in security aid to Ukraine is a form of pressure to get investigations of former Vice President Joe Biden is Congress began investigating Democrats say President Trump took on precedented measures to block testimony Dave general public and Sen Tom Tillis calls it a very weak case one that certainly doesn t rise to the Senate commanding as a jury and considering a move all the president of the United States for a lot of trumped tweets calling it a witch hunt again and ridiculous claiming he did nothing wrong foot no pressure on Ukraine Democrats are also moving forward something the president supports Fox s Rachel Sutherland live in Washington day the revised trade deal with Mexico and Canada including labor protections Senate addresses concerns from Democrats about prescription drug prices House Wa
Or put in his report on the other hand one of the political weaknesses for Democrats is that they have been talking about impeaching the president for a long time over many things and that s one of the arguments that the Republicans are making that you would have impeached him no matter what you ve been talking about impeachment ever since some of you got to Congress you know they ve been playing the Rashida to leave cut over and over again impeach the blank but all the things can be true yes both there can be true guys who want him out from the beginning yes and he could have this is yes and but that s what makes it hard because you impeachment as we say over and over again here at n.p.r. Is a political process you want to make a political argument that can can convince the largest number of people and Democrats have to figure out what s right you know what s what s how do you make sure he s not above the law but also how do you convince the largest number of people that what you re
President said I m not ready to lift the aid and they had this Senator Johnson I mean he writes a 10 page letter. Very detailed and he each have some some remarkable detail. And I d like to read it it s on page 6. This is Senator Johnson speaking he said 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 a new 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 the president trumps reaction here was adamant vehement and angry Senator Johnson goes on to say that as of August 31st the president told him but you re going to like my decision in the end so I think that s very important context on what the president s state of mind was at least as of August 31st right he fully expected do you agree that aid would eventually be re
People have not heard and there s a lot of contradictions in certain people s testimony is that fair to say Mr Caster . And I d like to talk about. Some of the people in this story that have firsthand knowledge of the facts we have Ambassador Volcker ambassadors Funland and Secretary Perry you had the opportunity to talk to 2 of those 3 people is that correct. And. The Democrats report would like us to believe that these 3 individuals were engaged in some sort of Cobol or some sort of nefarious venture but that s not true is it in fact these 3 people were at all relevant times and even today acting in the best interest of the American people is that true and with the highest integrity that s right I think everyone testified that Ambassador Volcker is one of the most experienced diplomats in our Foreign Service and all the witnesses including Ambassador Javon of the talked about integrity that Ambassador Volcker brings to the table but there s a lot of people with firsthand knowledge t