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Somalia. As if this is another step by the president to intimidate witnesses. He did not intimidate to you. You are here. You have endured. There are other people out there that can expect this before treatment if they come forward. That is a question for us. You also indicated that the president has a prerogative to appoint a noncareer person, and to be candid, republican president s and democratic president s have done that. Mr. Sondlands transcript is out, and he was someone who indicated that everything hinged, the white house meeting and the release of the vital
defensive aid, everything hinged on the president president zelensky being able to do that election that would benefit the trump campaign. You are aware of that . Yes. And you have indicated that would be something that you would not agree to do . Yes. And sondland was quite willing to do . Apparently so. I think you for your professional service and a yield back. Ambassador yovanovitch, thank you for being here. It has be
stooge in syria using chemical weapons, when he used those, that s deterrents. when we gave ukraine lethal aid. that s deterrents. what is going to happen now? we have given 16 industries a semblance of protect shun and exposed hundreds of industries in our countries to include local and state governments to ransom cyber ware and we re saying defacto that s free game. all the russian criminals know that now. we should have told him we re not putting up with any ransomware attacks. you attack us, we ll attack you. that s what it should have been. a clear statement to that. and we better pull the trigger when the ransom attack comes. because it will come for sure. bill: strong statements. jack keane, your take. dana: ifm owe glad the general brought up the list of
of who the u.s. ambassador was. bret: as republicans gather around the microphone, you can see jim jordan, let s take a listen. a third witness who has no first-hand knowledge of the assessment that is supposed to be the focus of the entire inquiry. the third witness who never talk to the president part of the third witness who never talked with chief of staff, the third witness who was not on the call, third witness who is not even as i said in ukraine when the relevant, during the relevant time frame. was not even there when president zelinski left. so four facts. i say this every time. by four facts have never change. will never change. we got the call transcript, there was no conditionality or linkage on the call between an investigation, security assistance. we are officials on the call that both said that there was no pressure, no linkage. we know that the ukrainians did not even know aid was withheld
hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance to the ukraine, correct? yes. that aid is being used by ukraine to fight a common adversary, namely russia, right? yes. to speak of the u.s. has consistently partnered with other european countries to keep russia at bay and maintain the peace in europe, right? yes. as ambassador taylor suggested earlier this week, supporting the ukraine helps maintain peace so that americans do not have to go to war again in europe, right? yes. suspending that aid and weakening ukraine can increase the likelihood of the opposite, correct? yes, it is extremely shortsighted. the last time you are in ukraine was may 20th of this year, right? yes. in his opening statement, ambassador taylor said he took charge of ukraine in june 17th. therefore there was almost a one