that s missing here. you have the president that is tweeting out while yovanovitch is testifying. and it s not helping him at all. i really do believe the president has to focus on what he s doing for the american people. the economy, jobs, the fact that things are, you know, going well, i think, in this country instead of going back to the areas that don t help him. he could do universal background checks this week, i would suggest. gosh, there are things i think that are even that we have been working on for such a long time that have gone awray. immigration reform. we re going to run out of money november 21st. keeping the government open, that s another thing. congresswoman love brought up the tweet by the president during the testimony. take a listen. here s congressman schiff reading the tweet to ambassador yovanovitch in real time. what effect do you think that
coordinating an effort among the ukraine team to tell the ukrainian president he wasn t going to get his security aid unless he started investigating the president s political opponents. i think we re going to learn that gordon sondland, as we already know, was pretty regularly talking to the president, and in addition, rudy giuliani and mick mulvaney were talking to the president, and they in turn were telling volker and taylor and others to carry out those orders. ukraine s foreign minister told ukrainian news agencies on thursday, quote, ambassador sondland did not tell us, and certainly did not tell me about a connection between the assistance and the investigations. i have never seen a direct relationship between investigations and security assistance. yes, the investigations were mentioned, you know, in the conversations of the presidents, but there was no clear connection between these events. that s the ukrainian foreign minister. how do you respond to that? well, i respond
which to adam schiff s credit, he keeps bringing it back to in the hearings, is it accept for the precedent to be that the president of the united states is working to attempt to bribe a foreign power in exchange for information about the ukraine. yes, people are saying they shouldn t be worried about it, but you had these incredibly credible and powerful and compelling foreign service officers, people who have served our country not in a partisan way, making the case the president did something for personal gain. i wouldn t feel good if i were them no matter what they re saying publicly. what do you make of it all? if i look at it strategically, i don t know who is advising the president, but i m going to give a shoutout to paul begala when the clinton administration was doing the same thing. he put the president on a northbound train with a vision for the american people so they could focus on something else. i think that s one of the things
security countertim morrison testified that ambassador sondland claimed to be acting in president trump s direction in his dealing with ukraine. it included, according to morrisson, sondland telling the ukrainians to publicly announce investigations into the bidens, if they wanted the military aid released. it wants more push on sondland, ahead of his expected public testimony on wednesday. this on top of new testimony on friday from david holmes who described the phone call he overheard between sondland and president trump. according to a copy of his opening statement, holmes heard sondland said president zelensky loves your ass. i then heard president trump ask, so he s going to do the investigation? ambassador sondland said, quote, he s going to do it, adding zelensky will do anything you ask him to. joining me now a member of the house intelligence committee, republican congressman mike turner of ohio. congressman, thank you so much for joining us this morning. i want to start
president s political opponents. ambassador yovanovitch testified friday. she was asked about the being prepared by the obama administration during her senate confirmation for a question, a potential question about hunter biden. take a listen to congresswoman stefanik pushing her on this. quote, the way the question was phrased in this model q&a was, what can you tell us about hunter biden s, you know, being named to the board of burisma? so for the millions of americans watching, president obama s own state department was so concerned about potential conflicts of interests from hunter biden s role at burisma that they raised it themselves. now, i get that in your view, what s going on right now with president trump is a much, much bigger deal and much more important than the hunter biden situation. but just point blank, should hunter biden have taken that role on the board of burisma while his dad was vice president? well, i think in an interview, hunter biden himself admitted