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quid pro quo. because president zelensky would be the target of any alleged quid pro quo scheme, his statementsem denying any pressu carry p significant weight.gn he is, in fact, the supposed victim here. other seniorer ukrainian government officials confirmed president zelensky s statements. foreign minister said on september 21st, i know what the conversation was about and i thinkut there was no pressure. danyluk, who was then secretary of ukraine s defense council told ambassador bill taylor on the night of the call that the ukrainian government was not disturbed by anything on the call. president trump, t of course, h always said that he did not
he would have more flexibility after his election. maybe that flexibility was to question to the witness. deny lethal aid to the ukraine, mr. ratcliff, your time is dwindling. i suggest you use it. allowing russia to march right i will eyield back. in and kill ukrainiaukrainians. again, in your deposition, you . urged the obama administration thank you, mr. chairman. mr. oukent, some people have officials to provide lethal suggested that the real reason defensive weapons to ukraine in that presidenton trump s pressu order to deter further russian campaign on the ukraine was to aggression. and now they have that under this administration. don t they? root out corruption in ukraine. they have them, yes, sir. i would like to yield the i ve gone back and read the remainder of my time to mr. memorandum of call two or three timeswo actually and i don t ratcliffe. recall ame single instance wher i thank the gentleman for yielding. so, no pressure. the president ever used the word no
ukraine. of course, he has a legal obligation to root out corruption, and that is what president trump is doing. that s why they want to impeach him? instead of looking into the real quid pro quo that biden himself bragged about it. sean: so the president in a call, devin nunes, okay, i would say he is guilty of trying to get to the bottom of election interference and corruption. he s guilty of that. and we know also that there is no quid pro quo. how do we know that? number one, the ukrainian president and foreign minister both said therean was no pressu, number two, they didn t know money was delayed at the time, number three, they got the money without doing a darn thing. to that would mean the theory goes out the window and blows up, doesn t it? well, there is a common theme in all of the interviews they have. they bring in the state department people, and they all say the same thing. they don t have a clue about anything that happened in ukraine in 2016 that was really wrong.
amidst this atmosphere of creative indemnification and pressu amidst this creative intimidation and pressure, the story he was working on weinstein almost didn t get told and farrow said that s because his employer for the first several months of his reporting, slow walked and even at times, tried to stop his reporting. farrow said he was repeatedly told to, pause any new reporting while reviewed by increasingly higher-level executives at nbc, that some executives seemed to feel the weinstein story was not newsworthy or worth the trouble and yes, that s while nbc executives were getting repeated calls from weinstein himself mention the his lawyers. it was only when nbc news allowed him to take his reporting elsewhere. worked at nbc for seven months when went to the new yorker in august 2017, seven weeks after ronan left nbc, the times published their weinstein story and five days after that, farrow