much more complicated acts of journalism than now. the background of a tweet from connecticut democratic senator chris murphy said a few weeks ago in ukraine, i met with the president and discussed the surprise cut off of aid and the inappropriate demands the trump campaign was making of him. the obvious question everyone in kiev was asking was were the two things connected? carol, remind our audience when this aid is we keep mentioning. the congress, the u.s. congress had approved $250 million in military style aid for the ukraine government to protect itself from largely what they use it for is to protect themself from russian aggression. the president held that money hostage, blocking it from being
journalism than what i m going to ask you to do now, but i need to you explain for our viewers the background of a tweet from connecticut democratic senator chris murphy. he writes a few weeks ago in ukraine, i met with the president and we discussed the surprise cutoff of aid, and the inappropriate demands the trump campaign was making of him. the obvious question everyone in kiev was asking was were the two things connected? carol, remind our audience what this aid is we keep mentioning. the congress, the u.s. congress had approved $250 million in military style aid for the ukraine government to protect itself from largely what they use it for is to protect themselves from russian aggression. the president held that money hostage, basically blocking it from being released. it s all roughly in the same