House investigators have just released the transcript of their deposition with laura cooper. Shes the pentagon official whose testimony was delayed by five hours late last month when republicans stormed the secure hearing room. The transcript of coopers testimony reveals how some pentagon officials were sounding the alarm over the president s decision to withhold military aid to ukraine. Cooper testified that pentagon officials were increasingly worried about the aid being held up. And that they couldnt get a straight answer from the white house as to why. She also testified that some pentagon officials were worried about the legality of such a move. This transcript comes just two days before public hearings begin and as democrats are looking to sharpen their case, republicans are broadening their defenses. The president today falsely claimed that democrats were releasing doctored transcripts of the proceedings, among other twitter rants. Meanwhile, rank and file republicans are clearl
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that you don t have to either withhold or receive the aid, it isn t the issue of what happened afterwards, it s the pressure, it s the, quote, extortion, as democrats would say. that s right, andrea. and as we all know, in the legal system, you don t actually have to have a completed crime for a crime to have been committed. you can attempt to commit a crime or you can conspire with other people to have committed a crime, all of which would satisfy a legal standard. for nikki haley to say there was nothing wrong here because the aid was ultimately delivered sort of misses the point. if there was some sort of effort to hold aid back to get damaging information on your political opponents, the damage is already done. michael crowley, mick mulvaney is no longer filing suit, he s basically been kicked out of the suit because john kupperman of the nsc and john bolton didn t want him in the
psy. robert, always good to see you. what are the i guess walk through the likelihood that we re going to hear from either kupperman or bolton or mulvaney given given this hearing. boy, it s hard to know what to expect. i do think it s interesting. i mean, pete did a very nice job of laying out why the bolton/kupperman camp thinks that the interests of their side do not line up with mulvaney s legal interests. but i think that there s also something else at stake, which is that each camp is also trying to protect their individual reputations. mulvaney is obviously someone who could just do nothing, as pete points out. and the house is unlikely to invoke its own inherent contempt power. it doesn t think that there s enough time to go to the courts to do anything else really. they are trying to consider
they don t want mulvaney s involvement in possibly holding up the the aid and all the legal questions there to sort of kind of wash over their kind of national security reputation. so i do think there s this other dimension of what s going on. so this might get branched out into two separate suits. mulvaney might give his own suit or file his own suit. right. if it s found that mulvaney has to testify or if it s found that kupperman has to testify, does that mean that everyone s going to have to testify? does a ruling for one apply to everybody? not necessarily. one of the other things that has been pointed out is that both bolton and kupperman, they say stand on different legal terrain because they no longer work for the president. yeah. and so that that could really make a big difference in terms of a judge drawing lines. mulvaney, of course, still works for the president and so the