his amendment. this amendment strikes article 1 as i withdraw my point of order. this strikes article one because article 1 ignores the truth. four facts, five meectings. we ve known there have been four facts that have not changed, will not change, will never change and we ve known it since september 25th when the call transcript was released. it show nose quid pro quo. what s interesting is the day the transcript came ourkt, even chairman nadler said there was no quid pro quo in the transcript. two presidents on the call, president trump and president zelensky have said no pushing or linking between security assistance money and any type of announcement of an investigation. we know that the ukrainians knew at the time of the call, didn t know at the time of the call, that the aid had been held up and most importantly, most importantly, we know the ukrainians took no action, no start of an investigation, no
and particularly first with the focus on the president s own conduct. the president of the united states hired rudy giuliani, his personal lawyer, to go to ukraine and lead this scheme to smear vice president biden. he then began a campaign personally to smear ambassador yovanovitch and then directed that she be fired to clear the way of this anti-corruption champion so that his scheme could be fully implemented. he directed a hold on the military aid to ukraine and no one could provide any other explanation unrelated to his scheme to pressure them to interfere in the 2020 election. then the president in his own words on july 25th gets on the telephone and asks president zelensky for a favor to begin an investigation of his chief political rival, former vice president joe biden. there s a read out of the call in evidence which is a detail of this conversation. there s direct evidence from alexander vindman, ms. williams, mr. borison.
it is clear that we re dealing with a question of a continuing threat which is why we have to respond. let me be very clear, i hold in my hands that unclassified transcript. i beg to differ with my friends. allow me just for a moment to tell you that in the call president zelensky said these sentences. i would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. we re trying to continue to cooperate for the next steps, specifically, we want to be ready to buy javelins. that s equipment, military equipment, from the united states for defense purposes. ukraine s in the midst of a war against a nation that shot down at least some of those alleged to be separatists using russian weapons a commercial airliner. this is a serious war where our men and women in the military
democrats wanted to do. so much of the mueller stuff after his testimony and the cross-examination by members on both sides of the aisle ended up disappearing into outer space. they had to find something else. now, let me say that everybody on both ends of the telephone call between president trump and president zelensky has said very clearly there was no quid pro quo offered. there was no pressure that was put on the ukrainians. i don t know how many times president zelensky has had to say that. apparently it s not enough because minds on the other side of the aisle are closed, but that s what the facts are. the facts speak for themselves.
wanted to do. so much of the mueller stuff, after his testimony and the cross examination by members on both sides of the aisle, ended up disappearing into outer space. they had to find something else. now let me say that everybody on both ends of the telephone call between president trump and president zelensky have said very clearly there was no quid pro quo offered. there was no pressure that was put on the ukrainians. i don t know how many times president zelensky has had to say that. apparently it s not enough because minds on the other side of the aisle are closed. but that s what the facts are. and the facts again speak for themselves. there was no impeachable offense here.