The Sonoma County fairgrounds in santa rosa. This video shows the large homeless encampment that has sprung up along the joe rideau to trail off highway 12 in santa rosa, its believed to be one of the largest homeless encampments is santa rosa history made up of more than 100 tents and stretching nearly a mile with an estimated 185 People Living there to address whats being called a humanitarian crisis one proposal is to turn part of the Sonoma County fairgrounds into a temporary shelter, the idea is partly inspired by the fact that theyve been using that same facility as a temporary shelter. For evacuees during fires and floods in a community where weve dealt with 3 natural disasters in the last 3 years this is unfortunately a humanmade disaster and so what youre seeing is that wall weve been able to respond in these ways. With these other types of disasters is it appropriate for us to try to respond in this way in this type disaster they would have 24 7 security and Wraparound Servic
Would be lifted. Without hesitation, senator johnson says, President Trump immediately denies the arrangement existed and he started cursing. And he said, no way. President trump said no way. I would never do that. Who told you that . And senator johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reaction here was adamant, vehement, and angry. Senator johnson goes on to say as of october 31st, said youre going to like my decision in the has very important context on what the president s state of mind was, at least as he fully expecteou released after the 55 day pause. Right . Yes, absolutely. I want to thank you all for 75 minutes today. Been talking for approximately my wife thanks you as well. She likes when i do the talking when shes not around. Time permitting, four or five distinct areas. Theres a lot of facts the American People have not heard and theres a lot of contradictions in certain peoples testimony. Is that fair to say, mr. Castor . And id like to talk about some of the people
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we recessed about to hear from mr. Castor, you are recognized for 45 minutes. Good afternoon chairman and Ranking Member collins, members of the committee and the staff, thank you again for having meto back. And giving me the opportunity to testify about the evidence gathered during the impeachment inquiry. At the outset let me say the evidence does not support the allegations that my democrat colleagues have made. I dont believe the evidence leads to the inclusion they suggest. I am hopeful that some important perspective and context to the facts under discussion today. The chief obligation as a Democrat Impeachment inquiry is trying to assess over the last 76 days is this, whether President Trump abuse the power da his office through quid pro quo, bribery, extortion or whatever by withholding a meeting or Security Assistance as a way of pressuring president zelensky to pressure the
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
Selenski make a Public Statement about investigations i knew that investigations were important to President Trump we did not discuss any classified information other witnesses have recently shared their recollection of overhearing this call for the most part i have no reason to doubt their accounts its true that the president speaks loudly at times and its also true i think we primarily discussed asap rocky its true that the president likes to use colorful language anyone who has met with him it for any reasonable amount of time knows this well i cannot remember the precise details again the white house has not allowed me to see any readouts of that call and the july 26th call did not strike me as significant at the time actually actually i would have been more surprised. If President Trump had not mentioned investigations particularly given what we were hearing from mr giuliani about the president s concerns however i have no recollection of discussing Vice President biden or his son