without opening the investigation that seems to be so troubling to democrats. everything you re going to hear them say could be categorized into three areas. first, it s stuff people presumed and had no direct evidence of. their water cooler theory of the case. second hearsay, somebody told somebody told somebody else that created some concern about the president s conduct, or a policy disagreement about how to make the ukraine great again. i heardea the folks come by, pa of the diplomatic core, we ought to do everything for the ukraine but if the president disaemployees with that, it is not impeachable conduct. they re alleging a shakedown. i think most americans know that you cannot have a shakedown if the person being shook down doesn t know about the shakedown. you have president zelensky himself saying i felt no pressure. talk about bad timing. this time article on the 10th
of the united states, that s becaused there s an animus the that s been manifest since november 9, 2016, the day after he was elected. so having watched this procedure closely on the heels of the other procedures and attempts to impeach this president and investigate, i am left wonder g wondering, you want every nference to go against the president, why should the american public give you any inference of credibility? the reality is when my colleague from california said was talking about the russian issue, not aru single american was indicted for conspiring with russia to influence the elections. not one. he still believes there was some collusion with the trump campaign. what do the facts get to?
i yield back. ba mr. chairman. mr. chairman. who seeks recognition? for what purposes does the gentleman seek recognition. unanimous consent request. like to ask unanimous consent to introduce into the record i cannot hear you, sir. i would like to introduce ask unanimous consent to introduce into the record the transcript of the call where the president says i would like you to do us a favor. without objection the tript will be introduced. the call record. for what purpose does mr. buck seek recognition. strike the last word. thank you. i want to address mr. swalwell s thank you for coming back. mr. swalwell s comments that there are definitely crimes in this situation. first of meall, i believe mr. swalwell during the mueller investigation wentg on nationa tv and said, something to the effect of, an indictment is
american military aid was a lifeline for thisd emerging democracy. you know the only people who benefited from this scheme, president trump, because he thought he was going to get an announcement to smear his political opponent and vladimir putin, russia. they were trying to weaken the ukrainians. there was a recent article congressman bass held up where it said president zelensky facing president putin all alone. this benefited russia weakening ukraine. this notion that the reason that the aid was released because the president is denied by all the evidence collected in the 300-page report by the intelligence committee. it was released because the president got caught, the whistle-blower filed the report, alleging elaborate scheme by the president, betrayed the national interest of ourra country, undermined our national security, advancedy, the person
when my colleague talked about the money was released, the aid was released. again, he takes this inference based on a timeline and he s citing rank hearsay. hey, you know what? i overheard this conversation i m in a restaurant actually sitting on a patted i don t at a restaurants, lots of people around. i could hear everything. i knew who it was, what was said. i was so concerned about it i didn t tell anybody. i came in once this really got going and revved up. you want to take every inference against the president. why should we give you any inference of credibility? the only direct evidence in this case remains the same after all this time. no pressure, no pressure in the phone call. mr. zelensky has said that repeatedly. he spent eight hours in one press conference, all day long talking about no pressure, no