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
talking when his scribe ran out and gave you the statement you first read. tell us about the second statement and what is starting to feel liket a frantic public relations p effort around the i. report. yeah. it was interesting, nicole, a second statement now from william barr that gets into this idea of a friendly foreign government. that wasa australia. as we know, michael horowitz said that thech opening of this investigation came from a tip fromca a friendly foreign government, as we know from reporting that s australia, and not s from the steele dossier tt has beenel largely uncorroborat at the heart of all of the conservative theories that try to undermine the investigation. so nownv the a.g. is saying tha he does appreciate the help of friendly foreign h governments d if i can pull this up for you in the middle ofr lots of statemes seems he wants to say here we go the inspector general found the only informationne relied on to