pressure. you re acknowledging, i think, mr. holmes, are you not that ukraine very much felt pressured to undertake these investigations? it s all hearsay. you can t get a parking ticket conviction based on heart. i understand members believe it is hearsay and i am talking about things i heard with my own ears. do you think aid was held up at the time of the phone call? on the last point on jim yord jordan, laura cooper testified that hours after the president s call with zelensky in july where he brought up that investigation of burisma and biden, the ukrainian embassy said the military was aid was being withheld and there were two e-mails and whether it was a phone call or not and all of that out to ukraine. joe lockhart, white house press secretary during the clinton impeachment hearings and joe schultz, former white house counsel for president trump. so, joe, point after point. yeah. is what we heard there and
staff. how can you do it without telling me? he would have fixed it in a second. trump listens to every mosquito, every sound of news. he is watching everything, sitting in his bubble bath watching fox & friends in the morning but all the time he is listening for the news. the evidence is it was all him. he was the one obsessed with ukraine. no one else. they were trying to figure out how to please him. i m just arguing they need the evidence. they got to prove the case. you re not going to get a single republican vote no matter what you do. you can jump up and down. that is a sad commentary. after bill clinton admitted he lied under oath democrats didn t try to defend that. they just argued it wasn t impeachable. if republicans took that tack you could respect that. republicans remain devoted to the president while testing out evolving and at times contradictory defenses. it s all hearsay. you can t get a parking ticket conviction based on hearsay. there is no quid pro quo
assertion that it was the whatever, but not the name of it. so that suggests perhaps there whistle-blower s complaint that somehow the basis for this whole republican party led in part by were some gaps, some liberties representative cheney have seen unreliable information. taken in the note taking. their bonds with the president the whistle-blower said what do you have to report on that in the transcript? fray, especially in policy. terrible things about the call, it s important to remember politically they know the president remains in tight but he then i then found out it s not an actual transcript. control of the gop. but they re speaking out with it s a memorandum of conversation. and i think one of the things he was secondhand in other words we re hearing as the rumors increasing regularity about his decisions and about the conduct start to get out about what he didn t know what was on the of his allies if not the conduct happened during today s of the president. call. th
found ukraine did know the aid was being withheld back in august. and this week we also heard the defense that even if it happened, it doesn t matter. abuse of power is not a crime. let s fundamentally boil it down. the constitution s very clear that this has to be some pretty egregious behavior. and they cannot tell the american people what this case is even about right now. that was the former acting attorney general matt whitaker whose name is being floated as a possible chief of staff if mick mulvaney ultimately loses his job. keep in mind the impeachment article is drawn up for both nixon and clinton abuse of power had occurred in those cases. and then there is the original defense that the whistle-blower s complaint was all hearsay. this was lindsey graham a month ago. this seems to me like a political setup. it s all hearsay. you can t get a parking ticket conviction based on hearsay. the whistle-blower didn t hear the phone call. and that was debunked by
a second lease on life. those who think isis has been dpe defeated you ll see. this decision is short sighted and rirresponsible. that s the same lindsey graham who has parroted the president. this seem like a political set up. you can t get a parking ticket conviction based on hearsay. perhaps republicans have been looking for a way to take on the president. he s not alone. the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell slamming trump s troop pull out as precipitous saying isis is still a dangerous threat. while the gop stands against him and trump s staunch ally lindeyy graham says it ensures isis comeback, trump is living in a totally different world on this issue. his bottom line. we defeated isis. we did it very quickly. very quicker than any general told us we could do.