It is 12 00 in new york. Were following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc Senior Adviser fiona hill and current u. S. Diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the Trump Administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a Smear Campaign against Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch who was apparently standing in the way. The conduct of both of todays witness witnesses, they believed lives could be jeopardized in ukraine. Here is some of the dramatic testimony of fiona hill and david holmes. The barrage of allegations
directed against ambassador yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything i have seen in my professional career. I heard ambassador sondland say to the president , yes, he was in ukraine, and went on to say
of different types of families, and secondary schools teach pupils about lg bt relationships. but when i was in school, that wasn t the case. and that s because of something called section 28. so what was section 28? it was a law that was passed in may 1988, and banned councils and schools from promoting homosexuality. because it wasn t clear what promoting gay relationships meant, many teachers felt unable to talk about anything relating to gay people, and they made it very hard for gay people like me going to school at this time. the law was partly brought in because of a children s story about a little girl with two dads. conservative prime minister margaret thatcher said at the time, children who need to be taught. ..to respect traditional moral values are being taught - that they have an inalienable right to be gay it was a message to gay people that they had no right to be themselves.
influence against commonly agreed-upon foes and rivals, right? so you could argue about the extent of the cold war or our position in the cold war, but nobody doubted, no american president doubted that we were fighting a cold war, what kennedy called the long twilight struggle. and it took ronald reagan and president bush, who were on the more hawkish side of that, to end that war from the american side. reagan started his term, his first press conference, sam donaldson asked him a question in 1981 and reagan said, the soviet union reserves to itself the right to lie, to cheat, and to steal. then by may 1988, he s literally playing with babies in red square with gorbachev. dr. hill alluded to that moment, what reagan called the moscow spring, in this moscow spring we look forward. and so mccain of course came out of that tradition.
harmony, seeking a place where each cultural heritage is respected. each is valued for its diverse strengths and beauties and the richness it brings to our lives. i think the big difference. the big turning point in that speech is that up to that point, the president had talked in a negative sense, about the soviet union, about what they didn t have. and in that speech, the president held out the hope for what you could have, that people in russia wanted freedom, religious freedom, political freedom, human rights, just like people all over the world did. in this moscow spring, this may, 1988, we may be allowed that hope. that freedom, like the fresh green sap ling painted over tolstoy s grave will blast in the rich fertile soil of your people and culture.