Figures constitutional patriotism. It look like President Trump might get away. Most americans didnt know anything about it in the few who knew of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. President trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I account for 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes, there were 17. I counted 17,000 officials who served republican and democratic president s alike who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security staffers came forward
to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as soon as they learned about it. Didnt they can make mr. Goldman . Morrison and vindman went to the lawyers. Yes. That move me a lot. My father was a staffer on the National Security council under President Kennedy and he said the most important
quoted with the whistle-blower. again, we need to hear from the whistle-blower print last week, i offered a motion to subpoena the whistle-blower to testify in executive session, meaning he or she can testify behind closed doors but my democrat colleagues voted my motion down in a partisan fashion. mr. castor, can you walk us through the inaccuracies in the whistle-blower s complaint? the first thing about the complaint that troubles us is clearly from an outsider who received information secondhand. the information presented in the complaint is clearly distorted. it s from a person who seems to be making a case, like an advocate, about what happened on the call. there whistle-blower references a number of individuals inside the white house and that the state department, that he or she has spoken to to form the basis of a complaint. we have not been able to piece together all those people and talking to all those people is
we know that president trump as president zelensky to look into the investigations and for u.s. officials to talk to his personal attorney about the investigations, correct? yes. if i could jump in here, on the july 25th call because these four facts we keep hearing about that are not in dispute, three of them are completely wrong. one of them happens to be that there is no quid pro quo mentioned in the july 25th call. there is absolutely a quid pro quo when president zelensky says i want to thank you for your invitation. and on the other hand i want to ensure that we will be very serious about the case and work on the investigation. that s the quid pro quo that president zelensky was informed of before the call. that s wrong. it s also wrong that no ukrainians knew about the aide being withheld, even though that does not matter. finally, there was no
for the aid be refused? no. a white house meeting? no. to morrison when questioned, there was no quid pro quo answered, correct. the aide was released, four fax never change for both president trump and president zelensky say there is no pressure. the call says there is no conditionality between aid. ukraine did and opened an investigation but still received aid and a meeting with president trump. mr. castro, has any committee heard from the whistle-blower in any closed-door hearings? no. did chairman schiff state that he would call the whistle-blower to testify? yes. isn t going to occur? i would hope so. has other countries aid also been held up? yes. on october 2nd, the new york times reported
mr. castor, i want to move on to policy and some of the president was abusing foreign policy. repeatedly witnesses came before the intelligence committee and talked about how the president is operating outside the bounds of the process. where does he derive that power? the constitution. article two section two. taking issue with the directions and choices? within a building had prepared the call passage and was physically deflated when he realized that his call notes that the call notes were not being listed by the presidents.