Were not going to issue that statement that Rudy Giuliani wanted to include burisma in the 2016 elections, there was no white house meeting. Soon became clear to them that the Security Assistance was also at risk and that took on a renewed importance for them. Following the July 25th Call, it had to include that they would do the investigations of burisma which equaled the Biden Investigation into the ukraine interference. Was their concern about doing
the investigations or what . Where they supposed to make a statement about it . Ambassador sondland very clearly testified that all he ever heard mr. Giuliani or anyone say is that they only needed the public announcement of the investigation. Without that Public Statement that there would be no white house meeting. Yes. I was struck by how clear the evidence seems to be on this point and id like to play another example. Was they were a quid pro quo . As i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call, the answer is
announce a meeting before hand. china may be publicly showing solidarity, but privately, are there concerns, here? absolutely. we know that xi jinping and vladimir putin have developed a very close personal rapport in recent years, over the shared ambition to challenge the u.s. global order. last year the two leaders declared a friendship with no limits shortly before russia launched war on ukraine. china has refused to condemn the invasion and has provided much-needed economic and the medic support for russia and also has portrayed itself at times as a peace broker between russia and ukraine. rosemarie, there are analysts who believe that china is closely monitoring the fallout of this aborted mutiny, political scientists from the australian national university said the wagner insurrection
over a longer period of time and sure disappointed that perhaps ukraine did not publicly and perhaps has multiple medic support from countries like china, but let s see where we are in two or three weeks time. of course the fear is that we could be witnessing just the early stages of a bloodied urban warfare in kyiv that suggest for me and people which is frightening, but also to be the case that russian troops truthfully marching in the centre of kyiv and zelensky will beat their asset that are defeated. so let s just see where this ends up before passing anyjudgment and labourfood may before passing anyjudgment and labour food may well be not happy with how things have gone. let’s with how things have gone. let s focus on the with how things have gone. let s focus on the russian with how things have gone. let s focus on the russian oligarchs and one particular, urban abramovich, who was putting chelsea football club up for sale after 19 years of ownership, the financial times
calling an elected leader who is actually working on corruption and other things calling him a liar simply because they don t agree with the theory of a partisan impeachment. with that, i yield back. the gentleman yields back. let s focus on the aid to ukraine. congress allocated on a bipartisan basis $391 million in military aid to the ukraine, is that correct dagen: does the record established at the military aid to ukraine is in the national security interest of the united states? absolutely. the investigation concluded president trump compromise national security by withholding vital military assistant and to the medic support, is that true? yes. president trump and his defenders claim that he withheld military aid out of alleged concern.