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
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 murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released, he calls the president , he actually sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said, im not ready to lift the aid. And they had this Senator Johnson. He writes a ten page letter, very detailed. And he gives some remarkable deta detail. And id like to read it, its on page 6. I add this is Senator Johnson speaking, i asked him whether there was some kind of 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. And 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 reaction here was adamant, vehement an
that, where ambassador sondland recalls one thing, and other witnesses recall another, is that correct? sondland is a witness, is a and he s a bit of an enigma. let s say it that way. he was pretty certain in his deposition that the security assistance wasn t linked to anything. and then he submitted a an addendum. i call that the press ilsenten ilsentence. even in that addendum or supplement or whatever it s called, you know, talk to him and her and anyway, sondland ends with, i presumed. there wasn t really any firsthand information. we don t have a lot of firsthand information here, is that correct? on certain facts we don t. we have firsthand information
which the questions were presented or asked over a dozen witnesses in the public hearings, to say, what did you fail to present. what was the angle about the abuse of powers, they were able to go altd one another, the different lawyers to ask the questions to say, hold on a second. when the american people heard something in the public hearings, it was because you were trying to pursue a narrative, not the whole comprehensive truth here, that wasn t immediately obvious, as you wondered i think his name was gohmert. why are we having people who are witnesses suddenly being the judges in this as well, and getting information. that s because that was the lens we saw in the past two weeks, ho you it comes through. i don t think it was effective to do it that way, i would prefer someone who has gun trials to present the evidence as opposed to present someone who is an interested party to undermine their own case in front of the american people. it would have been more prudent to say, here
and there s a lot of instances of that where ambassador sondland recalls one thing and other witnesses recall another. sondland is a witness, is a he s a bit of an enigma, say that s way. he was, you know, pretty certain inas his deposition that the security assistance wasn t linked to anything and then he submitted an addendum sentence. i call that the pretzel sentence. even in that addendum or supplement or whatever it s called, you know, it s talk tokn him and her and anyway, sondland ends with, you know, i presumed. right. wasn t really any firsthand information. right. we don t have a lot of firsthand information here, is that