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
was a referendum on the closures and the lack ofc focus on getting schools openf and the justfo intractability. i think that was the driver absolutely. i know a ton of people. they are still i don t know k a single person that didn tno vote to recall.th and i will say this about about teachers. i know a ton of teachers who were also pushing for open schools. so i don t think it s a uniform bunch. you know, i knowdo a lot ofun teachers you saw the harms but were afraid to speak out and go against what you know, a the position the union isci officially taken but eventually the voters. yeah, eventually there are a lot of great teachers, teachers and now i have a lot l of teachers in my family and i play i want to with my family and i totally agree with you. but this was a bridge too far and we ll see where this goes from here. we re going to t be anxiously following it. but jennifer, you stood with your principles in the big money on the tablese and we really appreciate your your joining
about the reason for the pause. is that true? i think thatis he had a conversation with an individual named rob blair and mr. blair provided some insight into the reason for the pause? sandy f was one of the few witnesses that we had that was ablese to give us firsthand account inside of omb the reason for the pause related to the president s concern about european burden sharing. in the region. and he and, in fact, in his, conversations, the president s conversations with senator johnson, he mentions his concern about burden sharing and i believe he a referenced a conversation that he had with theit chancellor of germany and in fact, the whole first part of the july 24th transcript he s