in a very special way to the secretary of state. he is a national security advisor, works directly with the president, but he tells you you should bring it up with the secretary of state. how many times in your career have you sent a cable directly to the secretary of state? ones. this time. yes, sir. in 50 years. rifle company commanders don t send cables but yes, sir. the national security advisor who could tell it to the president shares your concern says you, the ambassador serving in ukraine, should cable the secretary of state directly and you do so, don t you? yes, sir. what are the cable say? it s a classified cable. without going into classified information. without going into classified information, security assistance to ukraine at this particular time is very important.
shouldn t have happened, that shouldn t happen. this is a departure from american interests, departure from american norms. politically, i know i m supposed to be the legal guy but politically i don t see how that helps the president. it doesn t mean he s going to get impeached but i ve always thought that to the extent you credit the idea that with the democrats have wanted from day one is to paralyze and perhaps shorten the trump presidency and that the ultimate idea is to try to render him politically unelectable come the stretch run of the 2020 campaign, it seems that today is a good brett: it really quickly, when the republicans say that the aide eventually flowed, came two days after the article came out about the whistleblower, two, the president of ukraine said that he felt no pressure behind the scenes publicly. three, this aid had been flowing before the call and after and in
he was apparently a compulsive notetaker in every meeting he had from the spring of this year until late september, after the release of the transcript of the phone call, that he had with a variety of aids in great detail, he discussed his growing realization that there was a condition, a link that aid to the ukraine, aid meeting with president trump and president zelensky depended upon zelensky making a public statement that there would be an investigation. an investigation of potential ukraine interference in the 2016 campaign and also the circumstances under which joe biden s son hunter biden had gotten his high-paying job at burisma and whether or not the vice president had exercised any undue influence. i don t think that during theuby
see the whistle-blower raise his right hand, swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. we ll never get that chance. more portly, the american people won t get that chance. this anonymous so-called whistle-blower with no firsthand knowledge who worked with joe biden, the reason we are all sitting here today, and will never get a chance to question an individual. democrats are trying to impeach the president based on all that, all that? 11 and a half months before an election? who will not get to check out his credibility, motivations, bias. i sent this last week but this is a sad day. it s a sad day for this country. you think about what the democrats have put on our nation through for the last three years. started in july of 2016 when they spied on two american citizens associated with the presidential campaign and all that unfolded after that and when that didn t work, here we are. based on this. based on this is the american
was promoting, mr. kent? i believe he was looking to dig up political dirt against a potential rival in the next election cycle. ambassador taylor. what interests do you believee was promoting? i agree with mr. kent. the state department s role is to promote u.s. policies overseas, not to help the current president win reelection. is that correct, mr. kent question marks to go all federal government employees are subjected to the hatch act. promoting policy and not involved in partisan politics. ambassador taylor. i agree. what is the risk of running a separate channel of diplomacy that is completely outside of normal channels and does not further u.s. policy goals, and asked? ms. deming s, it s possible to do one but not the other. if it s completely against u.s. policy goals, then that s a mistake and it s not helpful. you can get advice and you can