simultaneously? i mean it wasn t just pressure on ukraine to cough up investigations on joe biden, right? it was withholding military aid, withholding the military aid, letting it be known the military aid was in question, that alone disadvantaged ukraine in their hot war fight against russia, benefit to russia. the u.s. special envoy to ukraine which was specifically tasked to help ukraine in its war, in its negotiations against russia, that was this guy kurt volker who resigned when he was called in to testify in the impeachment proceedings. we just learned the trump administration isn t going to fill that job now that volker resigned from it. they re getting rid of that job now. no more dedicated u.s. envoy for helping ukraine with their war on russia. i m sure russia is delighted by that, too. we learned from christopher anderson, whose testimony has been released in transcript form, we learned from him that when russia attacked ukrainian
could damage the democrats prospects ahead of his re-election effort for 2020. all of these mutually corroborating accounts. now, the president pressuring that foreign country, the president pressuring ukraine, that pressure alone was enough to start the impeachment inquiry in the first place. but now that it has started and now they ve had testimony from witness after witness after witness showing it wasn t just pressure on ukraine, it was withholding things of value from ukraine, things of value both to that foreign country and our own supposed foreign policy. it wasn t just pressure, it was extortion. it was a quid pro quo effort. it was trying to force them to cough up what the president wanted to help him in his re-election. and so we ve got news tonight on a bunch of different aspects of this. first of all we ve got the chairman leading the impeachment proceedings joining us live here in just a couple of minutes to talk us through what changes now with today s historic vote.
but now that it has started and now they ve had testimony from witness after witness after witness showing it wasn t just pressure on ukraine, it was withholding things of value from ukraine, things of value both from that country and our own supposed foreign policy. it wasn t just pressure, it was extortion. it was a quid pro quo effort. it was trying to force them to cough up what the president wanted to help him in his re-election. and so we ve got news tonight on a bunch of different aspects of this. first of all we ve got the chairman leading the impeachment proceedings joining us live here in just a couple of minutes to talk us through what changes now with today s historic vote. also some really specific questions for chairman schiff like what kind of report they re going to make to the public about their findings. that s one of the things in the rules that they will make a public report of their findings. what should we expect in terms of that?