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
no bribery. i got to remember we re calling it bribery after an old latin phrase didn t poll well or test well in a democrat focus group. myoc democrat colleagues seem t really care about focus groups and polling. unfortunately, again, they don t care about the facts. because the fact is the democrats were calling for impeachment before this investigation even began. representative said in january i don t even think we were sworn in yet. she said in january, impeach the mother. representative green said, in may, and i quote, i m concerned if we don t impeach this president, he will get re-elected. these proceedings. this entire process is nothing more e than a political hit job. unlike my democrat colleagues, i actually do care about the facts,he which is why i m troubd that our committee did not hear from a single fact witness this entire time.
whether president trump obstructed justice and colluded with russia.st he also included mayor bill de blasio in an investigation of mayor de blasio s fundraising activities. for my fellow americans and floridians watching this charade this isth who is sitting at the top of thiso dais, a partisan w york lawyer with a written bias against president trump who gave thousands to hillary clinton s presidential sacampaign. and all of this spectacle, all of it, not a single fact witness has appeared in front of this committee. we have been denied a minority hearing day, which i asked for the last hearing. i all we have had testify are partisan lawyersha giving their opinions. so let s talk about the facts that we do have before us. we heard from mueller. no evidence in the trump campaign colluded with russia to influence the 2016 election. no obstruction of justice. after e denying the witnesses t call in closed door secret proceedings and denying republicans from calling witnesses in closed d
germany and soviet russia. i think her family actually came from england. it was marie yovanovitch who had that was ambassador yovanovitch. dr. hill voiced her concerns, the nsc s lawyers, on july 10 and july 11th long before anyone on this committee knew about it. why was she why did she go to report what she had learned? what motivated her? she was concerned that ambassador sondland and mick mulvaney were entering into essentially a transaction. whereby the ukrainians would open up these investigations for president trump s political interests. in return for getting the white house meeting that president trump had offered. and i want to talk about deputy assistant secretary george kent, who served as a career foreign service officer for more than 27 years under five different presidents. democrats and republicans alike.
now that seems to me like that s a lot of direct evidence. mr. goldman, was there other direct evidence that the committee relied on in addition to these? well, there s a a lot of evidence that i would call direct evidence because it s not hearsay. if any of the people involved in the scheme areve talking to eac other and they relay what someone else said, that is not hearsay. that would be, in court, a co-conspirator s statement and that would be admissible. sold let s not get too far afie on talking about direct evidence. we don t wantki to relive. i understand but it is very important because anything mr. giuliani says, anything ambassador sondlands, says, anything any of these people say is not hearsay. and would be permitted under the federal rules of evidence. of course, we don t follow the federal rules of evidence here. but that s an important point. right. well,an is there anything wrong mr., goldman, with drawing inferences from circumstances? courts tell juries t