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
this is a veryn basic and usua investigative practice where people involved in a scheme or suspected to be involved in a scheme investigators routinely seek their records. just to be very clear, this is meta data. it is only call to, call from and length. it is not theng content of the calls. or the text messages. so there s no content no risk of invading any communications with lawyers or journalists or attorney client, none of that exists and there are no risks to that. so what we did is for the people that several of the people that we had investigated and subpoenaed and who were alleged to be part of the scheme, we got call records so we could corroborate some of their testimony ore figure out maybe there s additional f communications that we were ad unaware of. what we then did we took the call records and matched it up with important events that occurred during the scheme. and we would start to see if there are patterns.