prosets, it was a complete stonewall, not only will the white house not participate and not cooperate and not respond to the duly authorized subpoenas of congress, we are also going to direct every other executive branch agency to define. i have a series of questions and please keep your answers brief if you can. congress has not built a sufficient record to impeach the president in this stage. as foreign prosecutor, you have spent years building substantial case records, what is the strength of the record here? i think we have moved fast, and the evidence is really overwhelming, we have 17 witnesses with overlapping overwhelming? and the committee managed to collect such a compelling record in the dpface of unprecedented obstruction by the president. was it so pervasive that the president planned to cover up any misconduct. we do find there was
communications with the president, we tried to get him to list all the communications with the president, i think he gave us 6. and then when he was back at he walked us through each communication with the president. it was about the christmas party, when the president of finland was here. and then congresswoman speer asked him the same question in the open hearing. he said he talked to the president 20 times. so the record is mixed. i think my time is up, thank you both. i yield back. the gentleman mr. chairman, mr. chairman mr. chairman, mr. chairman, i move to recess for 30 minutes pursuant to clause a of rule 1 111. okay. the gentleman has moved to recess for how long? 30 minutes, sir. for 30 minutes.
communication with the president, we tried to get him to list all of the communications with the president. he gave us six. then when he was back we walked us each communication with the president. it was a christmas matter and when the president of finland was here. and congresswoman spear asked him the same question and he said he talked to the president like 20 times. the record is mixed. i think my time is up. thank you, both. yield back. mr. chairman, mr. chairman. i move to recess for 30 minutes pursuant to clause 1-a of 11. the gentleman moved to recess for how long? for 30 minutes, sir. 30 minutes.
after russia interfered with the 2016 election people the american people want to ensure the next election is free of foreign interference. mr. goldman, ambassador sonland testified that according to rudy giuliani president trump wanted a public statement from president zelensky committing to investigations of barisma and the 2016 election. isn t that correct? correct. and ambassador sonland testified as the screen in front. you shows that president zelensky had to announce the investigations. he didn t have to do them. correct. mr. goldman, you are an experienced former prosecutor. is it common to announce an investigation and not actually conduct the investigation? no, usually it works the reverse. normally you don t announce the investigation because you want to develop as much evidence
while it s not public. if it s public, then you run into problems of people matching up testimony and witnesses tailoring their testimony which is part of the reason where the closed deceptions in our investigation were important. what did this evidence about the announcements tell you why president trump would only care about president zelensky announcing the investigations but not actually conducting them? one whatever the president claims about his desire to root out corruption, even if you assume the investigations are for that purpose as he stated, it undermines that. he doesn t care in the investigations are done. even if you assume, which i don t think the evidence supports that it s corruption. he is not doing the corruption investigations. he wanted the public announcement.