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
effort toha conceal the president s conduct, yes. and i understand that october 8th the white house wrote a lettere explaining that presidt trump had direct his administration not to cooperate with the white house s impeachment inquiry. in thehi letter the white house counsel wrote, quote, president trump cannot permit his administration to participate in this partisan inquiry understand the circumstances. the investigative committees tried to interview dozens of witnesses including currentew a former trumpen administration officials and wereio stymied wi respect to most of them, is that correct? there were 12 witnesses who were directed not to appear and ultimately they did not appear. thank you very much. my time has expired. i yield to the ranking member mr. collins. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. goldman, it s an interesting thing. we can commit basically extortion or put pressures on others as long as we have the international community behind get enough people to think we r