Now, turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released, he calls the president , he actually sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said, im not ready to lift the aid. And they had this Senator Johnson. He writes a ten page letter, very detailed. And he gives some remarkable deta detail. And id like to read it, its on page 6. I add this is Senator Johnson speaking, i asked him whether there was some kind of arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. Without hesitation Senator Johnson says, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed. And he started cursing. And he said no way, President Trump said no way, i would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reaction here was adamant, vehement an
[silence]. Now, turning attention to the ron johnson letter, if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to the ukraine in september with murphy. Johnson called the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said i am not ready to lift the aid. Senator johnson, he writes a 10 page letter. Very detailed. He gives some remarkable details. I would like to read it. Its on page 6. This is Senator Johnson speak. I asked him whether there was some kind of arrangement or ukraine would take action and be
lifted. Without hesitation President Trump denied such an arrangement existed. And he started cursing. He said no way. President trump said no way. I would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reaction was adamant, ve hement and angry. And as august 31st, the president said you will like my decision in the end. Thats very important context on the president s State Of Min
set off whatever but expected to just be a whole other round of years of wrangling and fighting over this thing. today, this lightning bolt finally arrived. a decade in the making. the keystone xl pipeline is officially dead. dead. the company that was building the pipeline said today is pulling the plug, it s not going to try anymore. they said they will work with government agencies, quote, to ensure a safe termination of an exit from the project. bill mackinnon said this online, he said, quote, a reminder that ten years ago this summer, when mass arrests began in the keystone fight, 93% of insiders said the project would be approved. today, pc energy, through in the towel for good. he closed by never give up. joining us now, climate expert, one of the founders of the grassroots climate campaign, mr. mccabe in, thank you for being with us tonight. what a pleasure.
along the way, you could raise the prospect, schedule a contempt proceeding, after you schedule a congress tempt proceeding, you could hold the door open for documents or interviews, push it off, go through at the committee level, and these are all sort of milestone events. which historically are unpalatable or less palletable for the administration that sometimes starts to move the needle and with these types of disputes, once you get the ball rolling. we didn t get a witness, it was andrew mccabe in for it was a couple months, but once we got deputy director mccabe in, a couple weeks later, we got director comey s chief of staff. a couple weeks later, once you get the ball rolling. and again, you don t always like 100% of the terms, sometimes you have to deal with agency council.
have a couple of different steps company raise the prospect. you can schedule a contempt proceeding. you can hold the door open for documents or interviews and then push it off. you can go through at the committee level. these are all sort of milestone events which historically are less palatable for the administration that sometimes starts to move the needle. with these times of disputes, once you get the ball rolling, with the gowdy probe we didn t get a witness. once we got deputy director mccabe in, a couple of weeks later we got comey s chief of staff is. once you get the ball rolling, again, you don t always like 100% of the terms. sometimes you have to deal with