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Morrison testified that he noted that everyone on the ukrainian side of the table was exhausted because they had been up all night working on these reforms. president trump discussed the matter with pence, senator portman ande, acting chief of staff mulmulvaney. they discussed whether ukraine s progress on anti-corruption reformpt was enough to justify releasing the security assistance. morrison testified that vice president pence was obviously armed withsl the conversation h had with president zelensky and they convinced the president that the aid should be disbursed immediately. the president then lifted the hold. we are considerable evidence that the president was skeptical of ukraine. we know the white house was reviewing foreign assistance in ....
Without knowing absolutely for sure what was going on. when the president said i want nothing, no quid pro quo, it certainly sounded like a classic example of someone protesting too much and someone using a term they had heard somebody else use. of course it was widely observed trump sort of asserting affirmatively that he didn t want a quid pro quo really wouldn t make sense in the course of the conversation sondland described unless the president himself knew that he was facing allegations of having engaged in that kind of a behavior. and the new york times story basically firms up the assumption that a lot of folks had been making, which is that he knew what was going on when m he went into that conversation h with the eu ambassador. swin, there s sort of documentsre coming out from internal white house review from the omb aid being held up, some questions about when it was held up.p, it does strike me as significant you actually had people in omb who apparently resigned over it ....