Congressional coverage here to you can watch that online at cspan. Org. We will take you live now to the senate for where lawmakers will see about extending federal spending past october 30. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, sovereign, source of wisdom, hear our prayers. Listen as we lift our hearts to you in our times of distress, answer us quickly. Strengthen our lawmakers. Keep them restless until they find rest in you. Keep them dissatisfied until they find their satisfaction in you. Lord, give them the wisdom to make wise choices that will glorify your name. Help them to keep their hearts and minds responsive to you, enabling them to help make a better nation and world. Remind them that you keep a protective eye on the godly so that they may be surrounded with the shield of your divine favor. May our senators, with faith, expect you to provide them with strength for each task. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of
Advantage, we hope the republican majority on the Homeland Security committee has not become a sympathetic audience and a potential Entrance Point to foreign influenced campaigns wittingly or unwittingly. What a disastrous and disgraceful fate of affairs. The senate should pass this resolution today. I yield the floor to my colleague from oregon. Wyden wyden mr. President. Mr. Wyden mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for oregon. Mr. Wyden mr. President , i rise in support for this resolution, the democratic leader. We are calling for an end to a horribl horribly flawed investigation, attempts to poison it with disinformation and to sew distrust are an established matter of fact. And it is especially troubling because for periods over the last year, two Senate Committees have conducted an investigation involving the ukraine, former Vice President biden and his son hunter. Homeland security and Government Affairs committee, led by our colleague from wisconsin, chairman john
Correct . President trump has done a lot for ukraine. Yes. Sir, but isnt it correct that President Trump did not raise anything about hunter biden and fizz his father in 2017 or 2018 in only the year before his election in 2020 when both he and Vice President joe biden were leading candidates. Isnt that true, sir . I think what happened is the president saw this video of the former vp and i think it, it coalessed in his mind. Please answer my questions. He didnt raise any of these issues in 2017 or 2018. I dont know if he did or didnt. You have no evidence he did. No, but i have no evidence he did not. This video is pretty remark bable. Let me ask you this. You talk ed about Lieutenant Colonel vindman, a highly decorated purple heart recipient and work ed in the Trump Administration, correct . Yes, sir. He had a reaction to the call, didnt he . He did. He was list b benning to it, correct . He did. Lets look at his reaction. He said i immediately went to john eisenberg, the lead legal
Would be lifted. Without hesitation, senator johnson says, President Trump immediately denies the arrangement existed and he started cursing. And he said, no way. President trump said no way. I would never do that. Who told you that . And senator johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reaction here was adamant, vehement, and angry. Senator johnson goes on to say as of october 31st, said youre going to like my decision in the has very important context on what the president s state of mind was, at least as he fully expecteou released after the 55 day pause. Right . Yes, absolutely. I want to thank you all for 75 minutes today. Been talking for approximately my wife thanks you as well. She likes when i do the talking when shes not around. Time permitting, four or five distinct areas. Theres a lot of facts the American People have not heard and theres a lot of contradictions in certain peoples testimony. Is that fair to say, mr. Castor . And id like to talk about some of the people
Talking about burden sharing and wanting the europeans to do more. But senator johnson was and President Trump they were pretty candid and they believe that allies like germany were laughing at us because we were so willing to spend the aid. Right. Now, theres been a lot of allegations that president zelensky is not being candid about feeling pressure from President Trump. And isnt i want true that he stated over and over publicly that he felt no pressure from President Trump . Is that true . Yeah. He said it consistently. He said it at the United Nations september 25th. He said it, you know, in three more news availability, including last week. I want to change subjects and talk about something that professor turley raised last week and that is the partisan nature of this investigation. And youre an experienced congressional investigator. Professor turley, hes no trump supporter. Thats right. He is a democrat. Thats right. And, but professor turley cautioned the that a par the at the