Volker saying i spoke to the president and ive spoke to the ukrainians, neither of which believe aid was conditioned, neither of which believed that the president was requiring it. And ambassador sondland, which said no one on the planet told him that that was the case. Thats the sole evidence. Ambassador sondland believed a meeting was conditioned upon investigations, ambassador volker who i think is a man of very significant integrity said that was not the case. Even if ambassador sondland is correct, that somebody and dr. Hill, you testified, and again its hearsay, you dont know, that supposedly mulvaney told him that, because he didnt testify to that, but lets say somebody besides the president told him that, you guys want to be the laughing stock of history to impeach a president of the United States because he didnt take a meeting. Oh, please, dear god. Please undertake that. Now, mr. Holmes, i got to tell you. Is there a question for dr. Hill . Mr. Holmes, in your testimony, you
Yesterdays daily beast story reporting the indicted ukrainian love parness has been working with the Ranking Member devin nunez on mr nunez as overseas investigations i am not aware of mr chairman i asked unanimous consent to put into the record the daily beast story harness helped rep devan nunezs investigations from yesterday 1st 2 paragraphs reading left parness and indicted associate Rudy Giuliani helped arrange meetings and calls in europe for rep devan unos in 2018 harnesses lawyer ed mcmahon told the daily beast noone has a derek harvey participated in the meetings the lawyer said which were arranged to help nunezs investigative work mcmahon didnt specify what those investigations entailed objection mr chairman you have been falsely accused throughout these proceedings by the Ranking Member as being a quote unquote fact witness. Now if this story is correct the Ranking Member may have actually been projecting and in fact he have meant he may be the fact witness if he is working
Thank you, dr. Hill, mr. Holmes for your years of service to this country. And i appreciate yall being here today. Throughout this process i have said that i want to learn the facts so we can get to the truth. So why are we here . Because of two things that occurred during the president s july 25th phone call with ukrainian president zelensky. The use of the phrase, do us a favor, though, in reference to the 2016 president ial election and the mention of the word biden. I believe both statements were inappropriate, misguided Foreign Policy. And its certainly not how the executive current or in the future should handle such a call. Over the course of the hearings, the American People have learned about a series of events that in my view have undermined our National Security and undercut ukraine, a key partner on the front lines against russian aggression. We have heard of u. S. Officials carrying uncoordinated confusing and conflicting messages creating doubt and uncertainty in kyiv at
Know for me in the team here at midnight here in moscow its now 4 pm in washington d. C. Thats where were starting for you this hour democrats there on the House Intelligence Committee have published their report detailing how President Trump allegedly abused his office for personal gain and solicited interference from ukraine in the 2020 election the release of the 300 page document which is based on testimony given in a series of closed door and public hearings marks the start of a new phase in the impeachment process lets go to speed on where we are now then live to new york hi again its been billed as another big turning point in this inquiry what does it outline exactly. Well the report from the House Intelligence Committee democrats essentially alleges 2 things about donald trump 1st it alleges that he conditioned military aid to ukraine on an announcement that would have been beneficial to his Reelection Campaign and secondly it alleges that he obstructed the house of representa
You very much mister chairman that the Ranking Member Mister Collins relative to the Telephone Company subpoenas to include certain information in the majority report from the Intelligence Community. There are two issues involved in one is not involved in word it is fully authorized under the law and procedures but where i do have a problem is ace fact that somebody made a decision to attach the metadata to the subpoena of phone numbers of journalists and members of congress that is the beginning of the absolutely outrageous with the freedom act of 2013. Had chairman schiff decided to man up rather than hiding behind Mister Goldman and his team of investigators we couldve gotten to the bottom of this to make sure that this never happens again. I do not want to see members of congress with their subpoena power without any type of cause and then to go the next step to publish the results in a report that is an abuse of power here we see a clear abuse of power on the part of the people th