Of law and our fierce constitutional patriotism. Now, it looked like President Trump might get away with his ukraine shakedown. After all most americans didnt know anything about it and the few who learned of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. President trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I count 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes. There was 17. And i counted dozen Career State Department and National Security officials who served republican and democratic president s alike over decades who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security council staffers, hill, vindman, morrison and maguire came
forward to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as soon as they learned of it, didnt they mr. Goldman. Morrison and vindman went to
I thought the threat to our nation was wellarticulated earlier today by Professor Feldman when you said, if we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy, we live in a monarchy or we live under a dictatorship. My view is that a people cannot depend on the fairness of will be absolutely nothing compared to the shredding of our democracy. After the events of ukraine unfolded, the president claimed the reason he requested an investigation into his political opponent and withheld desperately needed military aid for ukraine was supposedly because he was worried about corruption. However, contrary to the president s statements, various witnesses including Vice President pence special advisor Jennifer Williams testified that the president s request was political. Take a listen. Speak of the july 20 for phone call was unusual because in contrast to other presenter because ive observed, it involved discussions would appear to be had
these investigations and directed both president zelensky and u.s. officials to talk to his personal attorney about those those investigations, correct? yes. and if i could just jump here, on july 25th call because the four facts that we keep hearing about are not in dispute, three of them are completely wrong. one of them happens to be there is no quid pro quo mentioned in the july 25th call. there is absolutely a quid pro quo when president zelensky says i also want to thank you for your invitation to visit the united states, spesly washington and he said on the other hand i want to ensure that we ll be very serious about the case and we ll work on the investigation. that is the quid pro quo that president zelensky was informed of before the call. so that s wrong. it is also wrong that no ukrainians knew about the aid being withheld at the time of the call. even though that doesn t even matter. but then finally there was no white house meeting ever provided.
as the slide shows, on july 25th call president trump said that former ambassador yovanovitch board, and i quote, go through some things. learning about the president s statements made her feel. what did you think when president trump told president zelensky and you read that you are going to go through some things russian mark? i didn t know two things, but i was very concerned. what we are concerned about? she is going to go through some things. it didn t sound good. it sounded like a threat. did you feel threatened? i did. and as we all witnessed in real time, in the middle of a