Yesterdays daily beast story reporting the indicted ukrainian love parness has been working with the Ranking Member devin nunez on mr nunez as overseas investigations i am not aware of mr chairman i asked unanimous consent to put into the record the daily beast story harness helped rep devan nunezs investigations from yesterday 1st 2 paragraphs reading left parness and indicted associate Rudy Giuliani helped arrange meetings and calls in europe for rep devan unos in 2018 harnesses lawyer ed mcmahon told the daily beast noone has a derek harvey participated in the meetings the lawyer said which were arranged to help nunezs investigative work mcmahon didnt specify what those investigations entailed objection mr chairman you have been falsely accused throughout these proceedings by the Ranking Member as being a quote unquote fact witness. Now if this story is correct the Ranking Member may have actually been projecting and in fact he have meant he may be the fact witness if he is working
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And 15 minutes long. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this committee will come to rnder. Good morning, everyone. This is the first of a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the impeachment inquiry, without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at the committee of any time there is a quorum present. Here is how the committee will proceed for the hearing. I will make an Opening Statement in the Ranking Member will have opportunity to make a statement. We will go to witness statements and then to questions. For audience members, we welcome you and we respect your interest in being here. In turn we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention to proceed without disruption. Man making a polymer entry inquiry. This is our first hearing under the new set of rules, House Resolution 660 gives you the discretion to allow yourself in the Ranking Member
A chairman there are 2 ukraine stories today the 1st is the one were discussing this morning that you have been hearing about for the past 2 weeks its a rancorous story about whistleblowers mr giuliani side channels quid pro quos corruption interference in elections in this story ukraine is merely an object but theres another story a positive bipartisan one in this 2nd story ukraine is the subject. This one is about young people and a young nation struggling to break free of its past hopeful that their new government will finally usher in a new ukraine proud of its independence from russia eager to join western institutions and enjoy a more secure and prosperous life this story describes a nation developing an inclusive democratic nationalism not unlike what we and america in our best moments feel about our diverse country less concerned about what language we speak what religion if any we practice where our parents and grandparents came from more concerned about building a new country
Were going to hell a bit more about a little more from that here and now this is another. Were going to hold on that for now and just carry on with this for a moment. I want to ask you as well as were in this recess now and were expecting. To hear from from the republican side on this theyll get 45 minutes presumably most of it will be taken up by their or by their own lawyer who will question maria vonn of h. And i were saying earlier that they are likely to focus on the fact that. Shes kind of irrelevant in the sense that she wasnt around at that critical moment when that when that july 4th july 25th uncle took place. That would probably be a very significant portion of what theyre going to talk about basically making the case of effectively trying to to make the argument that the testimony may be wonderful but its completely irrelevant to what were doing. Probably i would suspect that maybe the 1st probably the largest portion focused on basically undercutting that this this idea th