the center for public integrity, which shed new light on the timing of that freeze on aid to ukraine. here s what we mean. in one e-mail, senior budget office staffer michael duffey wrote to the pentagon s comptroller about the hold on that aid on july 25 about 90 minutes after trump hung up the phone with ukraine s president. duffey closed with this, quote, given the sensitive nature of the request i appreciate your keeping that information closely held to those who need to know to execute the direction. senator schumer called that proof that subpoenas are needed and issued a warning to senate republicans. if everything was on the up and up, if the call was perfect as president trump said, why does one of his top aides, who s
colleagues a letter ramping up his original demand that witnesses and documents be subpoenaed for this trial. schumer also cited e-mails the trump administration released to the center for public integrity, which shed new light on the timing of that freeze on aid to ukraine. here s what we mean. in one e-mail, senior budget office staffer michael duffy wrote to the pentagon s comptroller about the hold on that aid on july 25 about 90 minutes after trump hung up the phone with ukraine s president. duffey closed with this, quote, given the sensitive nature of the request i appreciate your keeping that information closely held to those who need to know to execute the direction. senator schumer called that proof that subpoenas are needed and issued a warning to senate republicans. if everything was on the up and up, if the call was perfect as president trump said, why does one of his top aides, who s
women this week? they were fantastic. i guess the vote was like 196 horse something to nothing. we have three democrats coming to our side so we have to say it was a bipartisan vote. they call it bipartisan. no republican went to this. we had to make one 95 to nothing. you don t see that. a less friendly environment in washington. democrats and republican s are fighting over potential impeachment trials in the senate. democrats want witnesses to prove their allegations that the president withheld aid from ukraine to pressure the government to investigate the bidens. some republicans want pretrial adequate vote because they say the president did nothing wrong. documents released within two hours of the july 25 phone call with the president of ukraine.
the transcript provides us a key piece of information. i call it evidence but it s really more information than evidence in this way that when you listen to the 15 witnesses that came before the house, only one witness had any conversation s whatsoever with the president, sonland, and the testimony started with yes there was a quid pro quo and ended that the president himself said no quid pro quo. here is what we know about that. the ukraine received aid they needed was out any pre- conditions being met, therefore, what has been suggested and/or said in the house, that the president required a quid pro quo, so that he could have dirt on the bidens , turned out to be undeniable false, false, neil, because there was no pre- conditions in receiving the aid on july 25 or so, when the
those incredible congressmen and women this week? they were fantastic. i guess the vote was like 196 horse something to nothing. we have three democrats coming to our side so we have to say it was a bipartisan vote. they call it bipartisan. no republican went to this. we had to make one 95 to nothing. you don t see that. a less friendly environment in washington. democrats and republican s are fighting over potential impeachment trials in the senate. democrats want witnesses to prove their allegations that the president withheld aid from ukraine to pressure the government to investigate the bidens. some republicans want pretrial adequate vote because they say the president did nothing wrong. documents released within two hours of the july 25 phone call