Yesterday was traveling to trump s summer home in bedminster new jersey to meet with the former president as republicans try to take back the house. we should add that a spokesman for general milley declined comment. joining us now congress woman elissa slotkin, former acting assistant secretary of defense with your military and pentagon intelligence including deployments overseas, congresswoman, talk to me about your first reaction when you read credible accounts by superb pulitzer prize-winning reporters about what general milley was concerned about which was a coup and which was the president of the united states refusing to leave office. yeah. it did not surprise me at all and in fact, many of hus been thinking about this including general milley for quite some time ever since lafayette square early june of 2020, we had been working certainly on the house arms services committee, a few of us to get general milley and secretary esper on record of what they would do and what they
Restore gallagher s rant and went even further, publicly praising him. he was a great fighter. he was one of the ultimate fighters. again, a far cry from what gallagher s own men said. gallagher responding to the videos in a statement reading in part, i ll read it for you, quote, my first reaction to seeing the videos was surprise and disgust that they would make up blatant lies about me, but i quickly realized that they were scared that the truth would come out of how cowardly they acted on deployment. out front for me now democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. thank you for coming in. thank you. you oversee the military on the house arms services committee. were you surprised by what you saw in these videos? as a member of the senate arms services committee, i was deeply disturbed and frankly, these reports are absolutely repugnant, likely to be regarded as so by the military itself
Area of responsibility. yes, but did they pass them on to you or did they pass them on to the administration somehow? the only documents i received, sir, were within the parameters, and given the documents that either i produced or sent to me relevant to the matters we are discussing today. thank you. i yield back to the chairman. miss stefanik. thank you to both of our witnesses for their service today. ms. cooper, i want to start with you. you spoke eloquently of the threat of russia and how that s a threat not only to ukraine and the united states, and i sit on the house arms services committee. we know that the most important support for ukraine in terms of lethal defensive aid is in the form of javelins. would you agree with that? yes, ma am. and which administration were those javelins made available to
You both said. no linkage to security assistance dollars in the call transcript. we ve got the two individuals who were on the call. they have both said no linkage, no pressure, no pushing. got the fact that the ukrainians didn t even know aid had been withheld until august 29th and most importantly the ukrainians did nothing but promising to start, investigation did nothing and the aid got released. i believe it got released because of what we ve been talking about, the good work of mr. excuse me, ambassador volker and others. i believe that s why it happened. yet you called it all. you saw this coming, that s why you went to the lawyers, that s why you wanted to that s why the concern was there and that s the part that s most troubling. i yield to the gentleman from ohio.
President biden than i knew at the time and the efforts that i was making were clearly not in the context of what had already been discussed by the president in july 25th. so it was fair to say you were not able to fix the giuliani problem? that s correct. thank you, ambassador volker and mr. morrison for your years of service and expertise and leadership on national security issues and i want to particularly thank mr. morrison for his work on the house arms services committee on which i serve. i want to start with the july 25th call between president trump and president zelensky. mr. morrison, you were on that call and there was no mention of withholding aid on the call, correct? that is correct, congresswoman. and there was no quid pro quo, correct? correct. no bribery? correct. no extortion. correct. and ambassador volker volker, i presume you got a readout of the call, is that