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
subpoena that was to the justice department and so the investigation hadnd been ongoin most of the year. we were talking to whistleblowers, we were doing interviews andlo doing our besto get documents out of the justice departmentnt through that chann but theseha things take time. right. certainly not 76 days. yes. and if you truly want to uncover every fact, as you should in an impeachment, do you agree? you have to go to court sometimes and enforce your subpoenas and here, my understanding is, we have a lot of requests for information, voluntary information, you know, willat you please provide us wi documents on idx, y, z and i thk that s great, but you have to back it upat with something, ist that correct? there s a number of ways to enforce your request. i mean the fundamental rule of any congressional investigation is youre rarely get what you re asking for unless and until the