Ambitions. Our selfrespect. Our love of freedom and the rule of law. Our fierce constitutional patriotism. Now, it looked like President Trump might get might get away with his ukraine shakedown. After all, most americans didnt know anything about it. And the few who learned of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. Fr President Trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I count 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes, there were 17. And i count a dozen Career State Department and National Security officials who served republican and democratic president s alike, over decades, who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security councils staffers, hill,
vindman, morrison, and mcguyer, came forward to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as so
mr. nagoose. thank you, mr. chairman. as we approach the ninth hour of this hearing, i want to thank both mr. goldman and mr. castor for being here today and for your testimony. there s been a lot of discussion about whether or not the facts in this matter are contested. i believe they are not contested. and so i d like to level set here and give you both an opportunity to address some of the facts that i believe are not in dispute. and i want to begin by addressing something that i think we all know for certain. and that s that russia interfered in our 2016 election. so, mr. goldman, after two years of investigation, special counsel concluded that russia interfered in our elections in, quote, sweeping and systemic fashion. is that right?an yes. mr.sh castor, is that right? yes. and, mr. goldman, am i correct that zero intelligence agencies have publicly stated that ukraine attacked our elections a in 2016? is that right? 2 that s right. i don tri even think that the minori
just how low we are in terms of the relationship here with russia. reporter: yeah, if everyone agreed on one thing was that relations were at a low point. where do we go from here, there was under tone was obvious. sergey lavrov sat down and basically gave it to rex tillerson, the airstrikes were illegal, and look, we don t even know who to talk to at your state department. your policy is a mystery. rex tillerson hitting back and saying look, it s pretty much decided you interfered if our elections a, b, what are you doing with syria, how far will you back assad and went from that tone, what was pror substantive was that vladimir putin give him an audience, they ditched the press pool, you can