Whip inflation. And in the new york times, in his obituary that just went on lon online. He did it, Interest Rates went up higher than anyone would have ever expected, but history proved to be on paul volkers side, and think which i for the past 20 or 30 years, much of that is ohhed to bawed to paul. He had a quality that is missing greatly and he was involved in politics, and that squault courage. He had the courage of his convictions to do as you just eluded to, Interest Rates and that period of time, it turned
out that he was exactly right as to what to do. He was a mechanic that knew what he wasni trying to fine tune an fiction and he had the courage toad do it. That was courage, and you know, that quality that mike talked about, he sort of had it, He Clark Gabled his last line in gone with the wind, he didnt give a dam. We are counting down now to the top of the house, the House Judiciary Committee hearing that will review Impeachment Evidence against President Trump. There is ste
investigation. ambassador sondland replied that he s going to do it. adding that president zelensky will do anything you ask him to do. that is sworn testimony by david holmes, who heard it from the president himself. and it was clear to everyone, the most experienced people in government who donald trump himself appointed in their positions, they knew what was going on. let s look at a text message from ambassador taylor around this timedo on september 9th. he said, as i said on the phone, i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. again, that is president trump putting his own political and personal interests over the nation s interests to hold aid desperately needed by ukraine in order to combat russia and show the support, he did it to help his own campaign. now, there have been excuses
offered by the president. i would like to briefly talk about those ex cus. the first excuse offered by president trump is that the aid was ultimately released and president trump met with mr. zelensky. we heard it today. theea challenge with that, thou, as an excuse is the aid was only released after president trump got caught doing the scheme. on september 9th the committees of this house started their investigation andst announced ty were investigating his conduct with regard to ukraine. two days later as when he released the aid. and there also was a news article which we ll talk about in aic moment by the washingto post on september 5th ex sploezing hsploe spoezing his scheme. and after thathi he met with president zelensky not at the white house butky in new york. then the president was motivated by general corruption concerns. and byagain, the evidence shows that is not true that that s what caused him to withhold the aid. president zelensky in fact was elected on an anti-corru
russia. so of course they have to be careful what they say. but contemporaneous documents fromem ukrainian officials themselves show the pressure theyw felt and show they knew what president trump was doing. this was one from bill taylor to ambassador gordon sondland and ambassador kurt volker. one thing kurt and i talked about yesterday was the senior aide of president zelensky, the point that president zelensky is sensitive about ukraine being taken seriously, not merely an instrument in washington domestic re-election politics. they not only felt the pressure, they got the message. they were ultimately not going to get military aid unless they furthered president trump s re-election efforts. that is a corruptle abuse of power. another argument that s made is that trump never said quid pro
it also shows that he withheld a white house meeting from president zelensky. multiple witnesses from national security officials and decorated war veterans testified to the same basic fact. president trump withheld the aid and the meeting to pressure a foreign government to do him that favor. president trump put themselves before country. when the president got kaukt, he took extraordinary and unprecedented steps. these facts are not in dispute. most of the arguments about these facts appear to be beside the point. as we review the evidence today, i think we will expect much about the whistle-blower for the