theen following in your finding of fact? president trumpin ordered the suspension of $391 million in vital military assistance urgently needed bymi ukraine. and the president did so despite his obligations under the impoundment control act. did you find that? yes. all right. so not only did the president abuse his powers for personal gain and not only was it illegal. his actions also harmed u.s. national security. so it s a fundamental tenant of u.s. national security to push back against russian aggression. ukraine s at the tip of the spear pushing back against russian aggression. is it true that harming theck ukrainian military also harms u.s. national security? that s what pretty much every witness said. last week, professor karlan confirmed that it is an impeachable offense to sacrifice the national interest for his own private ends. a slide shows what she said. mr. goldman, based on the evidence that you found in your report, is it fair to conclude
important because the minority wants tois focus on these four very narrow facts that ignore the vast majority of the evidence. so the fact that you use scheme is actually critical to the wholeal case here. the president abused his power. the president must be held accountable. no one is aboveta the law. i yield back. the gentleman yields back. mr. gaetz? we are continuing to monitor today s impeachment hearing in front of the house judiciary committee. attorneys for the democrats and republicans facing questions from committee members. we ll bring you right back into that now. but right now the fallout from the inspector general s report on theec origins of the russia probe. that report obliterated some of donald trump s most incendiary claims of a deep state conspiracy against his presidency and campaign, an attempted coup by the men and
the inspector general did not find political bias or improper motivations impacting the opening of the investigation or the decision to use certain investigative tools during the investigations. including fisa. including fisa. so that statement puts him at oddshi is an understatement, on the other side of the grand canyon from attorney general barr and donald trump today. you may have walked in some shoes similar to that. what s it like to be chris wray today? well, first of all he is telling the truth. he is an honest person who leads the fbi. he is a goodpe person and i wou expect that from him. butt we should expect that fro all ofwe our leaders. so it shouldn t be shocking that a leader in the justice department spoke the truth. he leads an institution that is apolitical and he is surrounded by characters that don t respect its nature,un its culture and i mission. i aman talking about the attorn general and the president.
going on today. so president zelensky is meeting with putinin today. and because of president trump s actions, zelensky is in a weakened position to negotiate with thea leader of the nation that invaded his country. if our military assistance had been providedy as congress ordered it and the white house meeting, president zelensky would be meeting with putin from a position of strength. if you want the support what we have to realize is that the message this sends to our allies and to our standing in the world. if you want the support of the united states beg y prepared t help with president trump s election. president trump s abuse ofpr por has injured our nation. thank the chairman. the 299-page democratic majority report mentions the intelligence community inspector general michael atkinson on pages 140 and 143. mr. goldman, you were present for the october 4, 2019
he was held up as don t look at theup mueller report, the one i really want to see is the horowitz report. if durham doesn t come up with the kinds of conclusions that they re looking for, what do you think happens next? i don t know. i mean, with the horowitz report, they are not only moving the goal post. they are moving the stadium. now we are going toth focus on durham. when that doesn t produce what they want, they will focus on something else. it won t end until this president is out of office. he needsen to burn the fbi down because its culture and its commitment to the rule of law is the opposite of everything he stands for. chris wray seemed to try to say that less bluntly. he said essentially what you have said about the investigation thatai horowitz found that there was no political bias at the highest levels of the fbi contradicting everything the president has said from the better part of two and a half years. i want to ask you what it s like to be him. but i want to s