Ambitions. Our selfrespect. Our love of freedom and the rule of law. Our fierce constitutional patriotism. Now, it looked like President Trump might get 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. Fr 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 were 17. And i count a 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 councils staffers, hill,
vindman, morrison, and mcguyer, came forward to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as so
spoken hato, to form the basis the complaint. we have not been able to piece together all those people. and talking to all those people is important. and there s a lot of them i m running out ofhe time here. but, you know, there s a reference to lutsenko in the whistle-blower complaint. where witnesses have told us it s likelyse shokin. vindman and morrison s testimony about why they went to talk to the lawyers. very different reasons.ey the gentleman s time has expired. i don t believe he was on the call. mr. goldman, as a member of the intelligence committee, i saw significant firsthand evidence that president trump conditioned our military aid on ukraine announcing investigations into the 2016 election and the bidens. and betrayed our national security interest in the process. for example, ambassador sondland told us that once the ukrainians found out about the aid being