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President Donald Trump says Republicans scored a victory in Wednesdays congressional hearing, and he is declaring the impeachment inquiry “over.”
During a visit to an Apple assembly plant in Texas, Trump highlighted the testimony of Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union, who testified that the president wanted “nothing” from Ukraine.
Trump says, “Not only did we win today, it’s over.”
But Sondland also declared that Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, explicitly sought a “quid pro quo” with Ukraine, leveraging a White House meeting for political investigations of Democrats. Sondland testified it was his “understanding” the president was holding up nearly $400 million in military aid in exchange for the countrys announcement of the investigations.
country. if they just did not sit well with permanent washington and that s why the show goes on. tucker: so, would you say that s really the take away? this is a debate about the policy? cloaked in a lot of high-minded language, designed to hide the ball from the rest of us. but, really, they don t like what donald trump wants to do with american policy towards ukraine and russia. it s the worst kind of groupthink the enemy is shows an enemy upgraded nissan element of washing merge, and all of a sudden, you get the sense that all of their beliefs are then the president s beliefs and they can go, say, well, i surmised some conclusion on the global stage and because some weeks ago, i spoke to the president, in fact, it s my belief that this ought to be the case in the administration standpoint. reality is far different. i think gordon sondland s, you see someone who is an
impeachment hanks, why was that not included in the sondland s opening statement? we don t know. here s one possible explanation, it was probably drafted by his legal team and all four of the attorneys it turns out as we checked our democratic donors. the man seated next to gordon sondland today during the hearing, he gave over 130,000 to democrats over the years, also represented and formats to help the rush or russia hoax. thinking more about the clients personal interests in this case, impeach number one across his mind? we don t know, it doesn t seem plausible. we should point out something, the price completely overlooked, gordon sondland and the family have been under intense political pressure. and some cases, scary political pressure from the left for weeks. weeks. if protesters have swarmed it gordon sondland family in
gordon sondland in the end, i would schiff s talking points. why not? maybe it s because he didn t have any evidence that was true. if sondland can see, michael turner, with the deals that president trump might have struck, it was only assumptions. no one on the planet told you that president trump was trying for investigations? yes. you have no testimony today that ties a president trump to a scheme to withhold aid from ukraine in exchange for the investigations? under my presumptions. which is nothing. tucker: this is tiresome. i apologize, but as it s happening, it would be better to ask lena. presumptions. others are so laughably wrong, one thing that presumption is definitely is, it s evidence,
the clinton foundation data, actually, on chelsea s behalf. if they hired the law firm to kind of look at the clinton foundation and what they found is, high dollar donators had expectations of quid pro quo. that is the word of simpson thatcher in the internal review. if you are quite right, all the discussions in washington and the impeachment hearings, it s remarkable to me that there is no interest in the clinton foundation. of consider the testimony of gordon sondland and the issue of the white house. if to between the ukrainian president and put donald trump, it was linked to them announcing the investigation. as a classic example of access. she did that every day when she was secretary of state. tucker: here at the national s, you know better than most. i hope you come back.