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
republicans questioning has been curtaileds routinely. i think we saw that in lieutenant colonel vindman s deposition. there was some, you know we wereth barred from asking him questions about who he communicated his concerns to. at right. very basic things like who, what, where, when. i would say, too, this rapid we re in day 76 and it s almost impossible to a sophisticated congressional investigation thatti quickly, especially when then stakes ar this high, because any congressionalse investigation o any consequence, it does take a little bit ofes time for the tw sides to stake out their interests and how they re going to respond with them. wees learned with the goodlatte gaudy probe the first letter