Ambitions. Our selfrespect. Our love of freedom and the rule of law. Our fierce constitutional patriotism. Now, it looked like President Trump might get 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. Fr 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 were 17. And i count a 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 councils staffers, hill,
vindman, morrison, and mcguyer, came forward to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as so
germany and soviet russia. i think her family actually came from england. it was marie yovanovitch who had that was ambassador yovanovitch. dr. hill voiced her concerns, the nsc s lawyers, on july 10 and july 11th long before anyone on this committee knew about it. why was she why did she go to report what she had learned? what motivated her? she was concerned that ambassador sondland and mick mulvaney were entering into essentially a transaction. whereby the ukrainians would open up these investigations for president trump s political interests. in return for getting the white house meeting that president trump had offered. and i want to talk about deputy assistant secretary george kent, who served as a career foreign service officer for more than 27 years under five different presidents. democrats and republicans alike.
longstanding u.s. policy. this about his nightmare scenario. questioner, what did you mean by the nightmare, and what would the russians love? taylor, the nightmare is a scenario where president zelensky goes out in public, makes an announcement that he s going to investigate burisma and the election in 2016 interference in the 2016 election, maybe among other things. he might put that in some series of investigations. but he had to. he was going the nightmare was he would mention those two, take all the heat from that, get himself in big trouble in this country and probably in his country as well, and the security assistance would not be released. that was the nightmare. i mean, it gives me chills to read this. this is a vietnam war veteran. this is someone who was brought into the state department by mike pompeo. and this is someone who replaced marie yovanovitch who was smeared by rudy giuliani and his folks. i mean, how does this testimony