That was the only person i could think of. Prior to working for the yurt council worked for Ranking Member nunes, is that right . I only found that out after the fact. I wondered why i was being asked about him, so i looked it up. You cautioned us on dangers that members of this committee pedaling any Conspiracy Theories that could benefit russia, i want to ask if you heard the nameless parness who was questioning Rudy Giuliani about the Conspiracy Theories. Are you aware he was indicted october 10 for making foreign contributions to republicans in u. S. Elections . I am aware of the reports, yes. Are you aware of yesterdays daily beast story reporting the indicted Ukranian Parn as is working with nunes on his overseas investigations . I am not aware of that. I ask unanimous consent to put in the daily beast story from yesterday. First two paragraphs reading lev parnas, indicted associate, helped arrange calls. Nunes aid derek harvey participated in meetings which were arranged to help
projects especially toward folks like russia? well, an oval office meeting is incredibly dire for any leader to make that principle and for the ukrainian president it is important to demonstrate that they bond between the united states and ukraine is strong and that there s continuity in our policies and we will continue to work together on the policy goals with aggression and the ukraine. thank you so much. i yield back. that concludes the member questioning. mr. nunes, do you have any concluding remarks? i thank the gentleman. what have we learned from the democrats impeachment inquiry? they promised the country a fair hearing. what have they delivered? the impeachment version of three-card monty, a notorious
are all asking is whether american foreign policy in ukraine is potentially being run in their interests and not our own. it certainly appears as if it s being used there is a subversion of american power of attorney policy to push these people s personal interests. thank you so much. that concludes the member questioning. we will now go to closing statements. mr. nunes. do you have any closing remarks? i have stressed in these hearings that the whistleblower complaint was merely a pretext for donald trump s political opponents to do what they have been trying to do since he was elected, oust the president from office. a brief timeline will illustrate the wide range of extraordinary attacks as the administration has faced. i want to start in june of 2016 when donald trump was just a candidate on behalf of the democratic national committee and the hillary clinton campaign. fusion gps hires christopher steele to write the steele dossiers a collection of
projects, especially towards folks like russia? well, an oval office meeting is incredibly valuable for any foreign leader. let me just take that general principle. for a ukrainian president, it is indeed what you just said. it demonstrates that the bond between the united states and ukraine is strong. and that there is continuity in our policies and that we will continue to work together in our policy goals include encountering iran, russian aggression and intimidation of ukraine. thank you so much. i yield back. that concludes the member questioning. mr. nunez, do you have any concluding remarks? i think the gentleman. what we learn from democrats impeachment inquiry? they promised the country a fair hearing, what have they delivered? impeachment version of three card monte. a notorious short ton card trick where the market, in this case
i yield back. that concludes the 45 minute rounds. we will now go to member questioning. i will recognize myself for 5 minutes. first, as a threshold, i want to say to the witnesses to be a bit cautious when members represent, are you aware of this fact, are you aware of that fact? you know so-and-so testified to this were about? if you have personal knowledge of it, that s fine. sometimes numbers get it wrong, so let me just clear the record on one of the things that was suggested to you, that the vice president canceled his trip because of a conflict with a trip to canada. that was not ms. williams testimony. her testimony was, i asked my colleague why we should stop trip planning and why the vice president would not be attending, and i was informed that the president had decided vice president would not attend the inauguration. so just off of that caution,