the first week of public hearings have been incredibly damaging. it s just the consistent story about what was going on on in the white house and this very clear picture about an effort to sway foreign policy for the purposes of helping the president s re-election bid. we are getting testimony from a number of people that keep confirming the story. so i don t think anything that is happening is going to undermine democratic support or cause some kind of political backlash against democrats from independent voters. this is an important part of the political story. it s allowing democrats to move forward on a pretty solid base, based on what they are revealing to the public. we have two major political parallel stories this weekend. both what has come out from the impeachment depositions and this this victory for the now re-elected governor, democrat john bel edwards in louisiana.
today the american people got a fuller picture of the corrupt abuse of power by the president of the united states. we have known for over a month about the catalyst for this investigation when the ukrainian president told president trump he wanted to buy more american weapons and the president responded, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. so we have the call notes. we ve gotten thousands and thousands of pages of transcripts from impeachment depositions of people testifying behind closed doors about what happened, but today we got to hear it and see it with our own eyes. it was trulyr historic. the first w witnesses in the impeachment hearing acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine william taylor and deputy assistant secretary of state george kent. they testified in front of the house intelligence committee for more than five hours.es and what we heard was specific testimony about how president trump withheld military assistance from ukraine, a country currently occupied by
power of the president of the united states. we ve known for over a month about the catalyst for this investigation when the ukrainian president told president trump he wanted to buy more american weapon and the president responded, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. so we have the call notes. we ve gotten thousands and thousands of pages of transcripts from impeachment depositions of people testifying behind closed doors. but today we got to hear it and see it with our own eyes. the first witnesses in the impeachment hearing, acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine william taylor and deputy assistant secretary of state george kent. they testified in front of the house intelligence committee for five hours. and what we heard was specific testimony about president trump withheld military assistance from ukraine, a country currently occupied by russia, a country in desperate need of that aid and assistance in order to squeeze the new ukrainian president into manufacturing
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if that claim in that lawsuit were true, then donald trump would not be the first sexual assaulter whom jim jordan has protected. leading off our discussion tonight, john sarbanes of maryland. he s a member of the house oversight committee and has attended several of these impeachment depositions. john heilemann, national affairs analyst for nbc news and executive co-producer of the circus. and evelyn farkas, former obama official and member of the house foreign affairs committee. congressman, i wanted to get your reaction to the revolutions in the depositions today, especially to this point that the ukrainians knew. this aid was being withheld and they knew it long before it became public. well, lawrence, thanks for having me on today. i think we were pretty confident just based on the overall testimony that was coming forward over the last few weeks