that country. crimea, they re in an active bar and desperately need not only the aid from the united states to help them by the an anti anti tank missiles and javelins, et cetera. the military weaponry, but also the legitimacy that would be bestoued upon them in a meeting with the president. if the president is at the white house with president zelensky and he says this photo is fighting corruption, this is legitimate president, it soends sends a clear message to the russians that the united states has ukraine s back. without that, they are in a more precarious position and zelensky is in a position that president trump is. he doesn t have the international political will in order to stand up to the president to his face because he needs the bipartisan support of congress in order to get that aid. don t pick a political fight
today, the hearing was supposed to tie everything together. instead, again, this blew up right in schiff s face and the democrats faces. here is what jim jordan said, the perfect summary of the known case of the democratic party against the democratic july 19, he told him about the upcoming zelensky call. july 20th, sondland told taylor what sondland told taylor to tell trump. july 20th, morrison told taylor what happened on the trump-zelensky called. august 16th, volker tells lo martha doctor taylor. september 1st, morrison told taylor what someone toldem morrison about what your h,michael s holland september 7th, morrison tells taylor what sondland told trump and september 8th, sondland tells taylor what trump told
to holmes testimony called for that investigation into the bidens. they discussed that and nevertheless democrats are discussing how to exactly move forward. some say they have more than enough evidence. it is time to go to the next phase which is write the report from the house intelligence committee and move forward with actual votes in the house intelligence the house judicial committee for articles of impeachment and move toward the full house vote as soon as next month. they believe they have gotten to that point even though they don t have someone who heard from the president directly saying that linking the aid to the statements, demanding those investigations into the president s political opponents they believe there is far more than enough circumstantial evidence and mick mulvaney comments are enough evidence. and here is steny hoyer, do you think you have enough to move forward. as the judge tells the jury, don t make a decision until you hear all of the
didn t hurt a bit. even got applause. got a round of applause because it was something obvious to people in the room talking about who that would have benefited and it won t benefit joe biden as he s running for office and that is where you saw him testifying and the members coming back in the room but gordon sondland was going about this being careful about what he was saying about the president because he still works for the president. he returned home to brussels and on a flight now and talking about how he couldn t get the emails from the state department and implicitly critical of the secretary of state and his boss technically going about that and that is fascinating to watch. as you saw him up there testifying, walking that fine line of what who he was criticizing and what exactly he was saying. it is interesting, kylie, because the chairman, adam schiff is not back in the hearing room. the ranking republican devin nunes is there. so presumably this hearing is getting re
18th, an omb representative relayed that the white house chief of staff has conveyed that the president has concerns about ukraine and ukraine security assistance, unquote. and that a hold had been ordered by the president. no explanation was provided. all of the agencies responsible for ukraine policy supported security assistance and advocates for lifting of the hold. the only dissenting voice was the office of management and budget which was following the orders of president trump and still no good explanation of the hold was provided. while the aid suspension had not been made public word was getting out. catherine croft special adviser for ukraine negotiations worked with ambassador volker and received two separate calls in july or august from officials at the ukraine embassy who quote, approached me quietly and in confidence to ask me about an omb hold on ukraine security