Of law and our fierce constitutional patriotism. Now, it looked like President Trump might get away with his ukraine shakedown. After all most americans didnt know anything about it and the few who learned of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. President trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I count 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes. There was 17. And i counted dozen Career State Department and National Security officials who served republican and democratic president s alike over decades who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security council staffers, hill, vindman, morrison and maguire came
forward to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as soon as they learned of it, didnt they mr. Goldman. Morrison and vindman went to
mr. goldman, my republican colleagues have suggested there is no direct evidence. is that true? no. there is a lot of direct evidence and a lot of the evidence that they say is hearsay is actually not hearsay. indeed, it is not true. now i don t want to relive a law school evidence class, instead i would like to go over some examples with you and please tell me if they are direct or indirect evidence. ambassador sondland and mr. volker both testified that on may 23rd, 2019, president trump told him to, quote, talk to rudy about ukraine. is that direct evidence? yes, technically. well not technically. but yes. thank you. and then we have the memorandum of the july 25th call between president trump and president zelensky, is that direct evidence? yes. that is. so there is direct evidence that president trump asked president zelensky to look into