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
call records can be powerful sirc stapgsal evidence. in this case it happened people who were involved in president trump s scheme were communicating with the president s lawyer who was also involved in the scheme, a journalist, a staff member of congress and another member of congress. we, of course, did not at all seek in any way, shape, or form to do any investigation on anyone, a member of congress or a staff member of congress. it just happened to be that they were in communication with people involved in the president s scheme. and everything i t you did w basically standard operating procedure for a well run investigation? every investigation in ten years that i did probably we got call record for. mr. goldman, did white house counsel g make his view clear about witnesses and evidence requested by thetn investigatin committees and what was that view?th we never heard from the white house counsel other than the letter which basically just said we will not at all cooperate