The committee will reconvene. When we recessed we were about to hear from mr. Castor. Mr. Castor, youre recognized for 45 minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for having me back, giving me the opportunity to testify about the evidence gathered during our impeachment inquiry. At the outset let me say the evidence does not support the allegations that my democrat colleagues have made. And i dont believe the evidence leads to the conclusions they suggest. Im hopeful to add some important perspective and context to the facts under discussion today. The chief allegation that the impeachment inquiry has been trying to assess over the last 66 days is this whether President Trump abused the power of his office through quid pro quo, extortion or whatever, by withholding a meeting or Security Assistance as a way of pressuring ukrainian president zelensky to investigate the president s political rival, former vp biden, for the president s political benefit in the upcoming election. The sec
Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test. Test test test test. What you would need is definitively need an icebreaker to navigate that piece of geography. What you dont see on this map because it would clutter it is beyond that 100 coverage inside of that blue line, there are areas where you get 60 sea ice coverage, 30, 40, which you would probably also want an icebreaker or definitely need an ice hardened clad ship to navigate. The purple line, on the edges of the map because the arctic is entirely icecovered in the winter and the maximum ice is in march. The minimum is in september. What you see there is you need an icebreaker to navigate any of that in the march time frame. It provides a rough seasonality in the arctic. So how has that changed over the last 50, 40, 30 years, whatever it is . Is it bigger, smaller, the same . What are we looking at . The navy uses a figure of a per decade loss of 3 of maximum ice per year and 13 of minimum ice p
In this meeting, Ayatollah Khamenei said that one of the enemys activities is trying to distort the attractive image of the irgc and the basij, so that they can learn and help. One is placed one of the important parts of the enemys activities is to distort the image of the irgc, to distort the image of the basij, why is it that the attractive pamphlet of the basij, the attractiveness of this attractiveness, worries them , kotsar and sin force them to distort it with false news and false rumors, with all kinds of iran and shogarf, they call this model. This learning should no longer exist. This assistance should not exist. Before the corona epidemic, the members of the Supreme Assembly of commanders and officials of the irgc had a meeting with the leader of the revolution at the same time as holding their annual meeting, and the last meeting was in october 2018 with the presence of Lieutenant General martyr haj qasim Ayatollah Khamenei said that one of the enemys activities is to try to
A moment, the borders of ukraine for drones, join the gathering of the border guard, congratulations this is a marathon , the only news for you is the team of the morning tv channel. Center of events i congratulate the day of the fullscale war of russia against ukraine news time on the national air marathon olga butko we are starting bulgaria joins the declaration of the countries of the soma group regarding security guarantees to ukraine this decision was adopted by the council of ministers of bulgaria, the Government Press service informed about it the aid will include the supply of modern military equipment for the training of ukrainians of the military and the possibility of exchanging intelligence, i will remind the leaders of the countries of the group themselves of the joint declaration of support for ukraine agreed in midjuly on the sidelines of the nato summit in vilnius , 14 countries have already joined it, except for bulgaria. Strengthening our air defense system, he added
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