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
but there was no political bias. that is so important. and the other big bombshell that we ve been covering since we ve been back in the hearing is t a statement from the u.s. attorney from connecticut, mr. durham, who moments after this report came moout, sort of performed a william barr on the mueller report 2.0, putting out a statement saying that his investigation, let me read it, a at the same time fromet the u.s attorney john durham on the inspector general s report, the utmostrt respect for the inspecr general and the work that went into the reportha prepared by m horowitz and his staff however our investigation is not limited to developing information from within component d parts of the justice department.ar our investigation has included developing information from other persons and entities in the u.s. andan outside of the u. based onsi the evidence collect today and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the inspector general that we do not agree