Collecting it, they were not passing it to you, they were passing it to State Department . Department of defense . This is what they reported to me. I have not seen the documents that have been collected. I only know those documents that i have produced or that my staff at my staff has brought to my attention or that i have received. So no, i do not know what has happened with the documents that have been collected. Same general question to you, sir. I requested it wants given access to documents that had originated or were sent to me for the pertinent matters of this investigation during a finite. Back. I dont have information about what is going on in terms of other documents that i did not produce or do not receive. There was a move to gather them, and i understood generally and directly and informally that they had been gathered. That is the extent of my knowledge. It is not my area of
responsibility. Yes, but did they pass them on to you or did they pass them on to the administrat
This brings me to the topic of todays proceedings. I would like to recap my recollection of the timeline in which these events played out. I testified about all of this at length in my deposition. In july, i became aware of a hold being placed on obligation of the State Departments military financing or fmf and dods usai fund. In meetings i heard the president directed the Office Of Management And Budget to hold the funds because of his concern for corruption in ukraine. Let me say at the outset i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter. At a senior level meeting i attended july 26th chaired by National Council Security Leadership as in all other interagency meetings on this topic of which i was wear, the
national Security Community expressed unanimous support for resuming funding in the u. S. National security interests. At the July 26th Meeting there was also a discussion how ukrainian anticorruption efforts
Government. And then simply says, but you can go to court because thats how things always work. Again, its just important to remember. The facts are clear. No president has ever, ever, ever obstructed congress in the manner that weve seen from President Trump. Will the gentleman yield . In a moment. And so as as we go forward, and i dont know how much longer well be here. Its always important to makel sure that the facts are clear. And that we dont muddy the waters by suggesting that something that is sosu unprecedented, that weve never seen before in the history of our country, is somehow just a parcel of thes way things work around here. They dont. Know it. Friends on The Other Side of the aisle know it. The American People know it. But mr. Johnsons right. Sometimes its important to remind them of it. T. I yield. Will the gentleman yield . Nt thank you. I just want to add a little
constitutional postscript to underscore the verye important point that mr. Deutch is making here. The ar
Tonight appeared also Raymond Arroyo is back with the seen end. A congressman runs out of gas on air. And joe biden becomes a grandfather again today. But first, story time with adam schiff. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Those of you at home, time to change the channel, turn down the volume. Or hide the kids come up with them to bed. I yield to mr. Schiff for story time hour. Laura when you think back on your days in kindergarten or first grade may be, you might remember that time each week when your teacher or maybe a special guest sat on a stool or on the floor with the children gathering around, and fabled fairy tales or other stories were read aloud to us wideeyed children who took it all in. Trolls, wizards, there were talking pigs. It was all magical. The words and the delivery made the fictional characters come to life. But then we grew up, or at least some of us did. Others are still selling fiction and acting like it is real life. The testimony today is among the most sig
Area of responsibility. Yes, but did they pass them on to you or did they pass them on to the administration somehow . The only documents i received, sir, were within the parameters, and given the documents that either i produced or sent to me relevant to the matters we are discussing today. Thank you. I yield back to the chairman. Miss stefanik. Thank you to both of our witnesses for their service today. Ms. Cooper, i want to start with you. You spoke eloquently of the threat of russia and how thats a threat not only to ukraine and the United States, and i sit on the House Arms Services committee. We know that the most important support for ukraine in terms of lethal defensive aid is in the form of javelins. Would you agree with that . Yes, maam. And which administration were those javelins made available to ukraine . This administration. And not the Obama Administration . That is correct. Have you spoken to the president about ukraine aid . No, i have not. No, maam. Undersecretary ha