foreign aid wanted european countries to do more, new how corrupt was and gave them more than obama because he gave them javelins, tank busting. trump gave missiles but when it came time to check out the new guy president trump said see if he s legit so for 55 days we economiced him out. president zelensky had five interactions with officials in that time frame. one, of course, phone call. july 25th phone call before president trump and president zelensky. there were four other face-to-face meetings with other senior u.s. official. guess what? not one of those interactions, not one, were security assistance dollars linked to investigating barisma or biden. guess what did happen in those 55 days? the u.s. senators, and ambassador bolton, vice president pence, all became
mr. chairman, i ask unanimous kent to enter into the record the transcript from the july 25th call between president trump and president zelensky. you yourself, mr. chairman, mischaracterized the consulted in the the gentleman will suspend. the gentleman will suspend by unanimous kent be happy to enter the call record into the record. rogd ro recognized for five minutes. thank you. what year did you graduate from west point? 1969, height of the vietnam war? height was about that time. what was your class rank at west point? number five. how many people were in your class. 800. 800 cadets you were number 5. yes, sir. so when your top 1% of your class at west point you probably get your pick of assignments but you picked the infantry.
was just plain wrong. i yield back, mr. chirp airman. mr. jordan. thank you, mr. chairman. 55 days, since july 18th and september 11th a delay sending hard-earned tax dollars of the american people to ukraine. not any country. ukraine. young said one of the three most corrupt countries on the planet. witness friday ef it had in her deposition corruption is not just prevalent in ukraine. it s the system. so our president said time-out. time-out. check out this new guy. let s see if zelensky is the real deal. this new guy got elected in april, party took power in july, let s see if he s legitimate. keep in mind, this is already been discussed in 2018. president trump already had done more for ukraine than obama did. that s right. president trump who doesn t like
convinced that zelensky was, in fact, worth the risk. he was, in fact, legit and the real deal and a real change. and guess what? they told the president. he s a reformer. release the money. and that s exactly what president trump did. the next few weeks we re going to have more witnesses like today that the democrats will parade in here and all going to say this. so and so said such and such to so and so and, therefore we got to impeach the president. actually, we can get nor speck. covered it a little bit ago. ambassador sondland said in his deposition, he said ambassador taylor recalls mr. morrison told taylor i told morrison i conveyed this to mr. yermak and meeting with president zelensky and if you can follow that that s the democrats plan and why they want to impeach the president. what we re hear over the next couple weeks. that s what we re going to hear. no matter what they do, no
matter how many witnesses they bring if here four facts will not change, have not change will never change. the calls shows no linkagethe bidens. president trump and press zelensky both said no linkage, no pressure, no pushing. ukrainians didn t even know the aid was withheld at the time of the phone call and most importantly, pointed out, ukrainians didn t take specific action relative to the investigation to get the money released. now, there is one witness, one witness that they won t bring in front of us, they won t bring in front of the american people and that s the guy who started it all. the whistle-blower. nope. 43 435 members of congress. one person gets to know who that is. one person has a staff to talk to that person. the rest of us don t. only chairman schiff knows the whistle-blower. we don t. we will never get the chance, the chance to see the