contacts from republicans and classified information, i will then lied about them to the american people on national respectfully decline to answer in this public forum. television. i've noted before the democrats third, there may be questions have a long habit of accusing focusing on the identity of people in the intelligence republicans of offenses they, community. these questions were redacted themselves, are committing. from my deposition transcript. if such a question arises today, let's recall for years they i will follow my counsel's accused the trump campaign of advice and decline to answer. colluding with russia, when they i would like to conclude my themselves were colluding with opening remarks with an russia by funding and spreading observation about some of my the steel dossier which relied fellow public servants who have on russian sources. come und attacks. and now they accuse president trump of malfeasance in ukraine, ambassador yovanovitch, when they themselves are culpable. lieutenant colonel vin manned the democrats cooperated in the and dr. hill. ukrainian election meddling and masha, alex and fionna were bor they defend hunter biden's they themselves prmly chose to position with a corrupt ukrainian company. all while his father served as immigrate to the united states. they made the professional choice to serve the united states as public officials, vice president. helping shape our national security policy towards russia in particular, and we and our despite this hypocrisy, the national security are the better democrats are advancing their impeachment sham. for it. in this sense they are the 21st but we should not hold any