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
yes. now i want to talk about the president s skepticism of foreign aid. the presidentci is very skeptic of foreign aid, that is correct? he is deeply skeptical of sending u.s. taxpayer dollars into an environment that is corrupt because it s as good as kissing it goodbye. is that something new that he believes ors is that something he ran on? this is something he has ran on, implemented policies as soon as he became president, ambassador hale, the third ranking state department official told us about the over you know, overall review of foreignal apds programs and described it as almost zero based evaluation. right. you had the opportunity to take the deposition of mark sandy who is a career official at omb, is that right? correct. and he had some information