Dispute. Now turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator with murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released so he calls the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said im not ready to lift the aid. They had this Senator Johnson, he writes a tenpage letter, very detailed, and he gives some remarkable detail and i would like to read it. Its on page 6. I this is Senator Johnson speaking, he said i asked him whether there was some kind of
arran arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. Without hesitation, Senator Johnson says, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed and he started cursing. 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 reactionnt here was adamant, vehe
he also you know, when it comes to his communications with the president, we tried to get him to list all the communications with the president. i think he gave w us six. and then when he was back at hen walked us through each communication with the president. by the way it was a christmas party, when the president of finland was here. and then congresswoman spear asked him the same question in the open hearingm and he said that he had talked to the president like 20 times. so the record is mixed. i thinkis my time is up. thank you, both. yield back. mr. chairman mr. chairman. to the five-minute rule. e mr. chairman, i move to recess i for 30 minutes pursuan to clause 1a of rule 11. okay. the gentleman has moved i man sorry the gentleman has
mr. neguse vote no. mr. stan top votes no. miss dean votes no. miss mucarsel-powell votes no. miss escobar votes no. mr. collins y votes yea. mr. gohmert votes yes. mr. buck. mr. ratcliffe votes yes. miss roby votes yea mr. gaetz votes yea mr. johnson votes yea. mr. biggs votes yea. miss mcchin tok votes yea. mr. reschenthaler votes yea. mr. cline. mr. armstrong votes yes. mr. steube votes yes. mr. chairman. mr. chairman. how am i recorded? mr. cohen you are not
general notified the committee that there was this whistleblower complaint c that s beingth withheld by the trump administration. correct. well i ve made it clear throughout this investigation i didn t want to be a part of a third impeachment inquiry, but the direct evidence is very damming and the president hasn t offered any evidence to the cup temporariry. we ve asked, we ve subpoenaed, we ve invited the president and nothing has come forward if he had evidence of his innocence, why wouldn t he bring it forward? this is a very serious matter that strikes at the heart of our constitution andt it s a conce that we are here but i ve heard over and over again that this is too fast. miss jackson lee and i were talking, we were bother membersf this committee during the clinton impeachment that took 73 days. we re here on the 76th day. we need to proceed and i thank you for your hard work and presentation. i yield woback, mr. chairman.
with you doing proper oversight. i ve had a lot of issues with how the oversight is done. but don t make it up and don t not tell me or the rest of this committee who ordered that. that was nothing morede than a smear campaign. to say it s not is being disingenuous with the committee. the chairman gave you a chance to rehabilitate and you made it worse. at the endu of the day by t way, also a fuller record got leaked from executive session got leaked to the washington post. and i don t understand except how we can say this is okay. how do we say this is fine? this is how we have devolved. and the members of the majority now may be members of the minority at some point. ifme we re setting the standard this is where we re going with these investigations we re in trouble. we re in deep trouble because this is d another thing that founders you and othershe today mr. berke, said earlier, the founders were concerned about a lot of things. oneab of the biggest they were