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Cable on august 29th expressing his misgives about the delay of military aid to ukraine. what do you do with that cable? >> im not going to talk ukraine this morning. >> did you relay his concerns to the president? >> i came here today to talk about workforce development. >> this as "the washington post" reports that the white house pressured ukraine -- the pressure on ukraine, rather, went well beyond withholding military aid. it turns out in late august white house trade representative robert ...

That neither ambassador bill taylor or any other witness has provided testimony that the ukraines were aware that military aid was being withheld. you cant have a quid pro could with no could. >> congressman john ratcliffe, "fox & friends", where is the whistle-blower? the do-nothing democracs case dead. theyre so desperate. >> this is getting difficult to watch. >> you know, house minority leader -- what does he call him? >> he calls him steve but he goes by the name of kevin mccarty. >> steve ...

Desperate. >> this is getting difficult to watch. >> and, you know, mika, house minority leader kevin what does he call him, steve? >> he calls him steve but he goes by the name of kevin mccarthy. >> steve made a similar argument on tuesday. >> theyre claiming theres a quid pro quo with the president trump with the president of ukraine on july 25th. we now find from what theyve said even in here, on august 29th ukraine found out that the money was being held up from "politico." >> you know, what...

For ukraine, in order to pressure its government to carry out investigations for his political benefit, trump yesterday in a tweet quoting republican congressman john rat cliff wrote that quote neither ambassador taylor or any other witness has provided testimony that the ukrainians were aware that military aid was being withheld. you cant are a quid pro quo with no quo. matt mccarty made similar arguments on tuesday. >> the democrats were not able to establish that ukraine was aware that milita...

Instance i kid you not fourth hand accounts of what was said. we still stick to the same conclusion or the facts that the ukrainians were not aware that the security aid was withheld or held up until august 29th. it was released on september 11th, how can there be a quid pro quo when they werent even aware that it was withheld? >> its very simple, they are claiming there was a quid pro quo with the president trump with the president of ukraine on july 25th. they now find all they said on august ...

>> laura: i read the entire 15 page opening statement by taylor and you know what i find repeatedly true? these are second, third, in one instance i kid you not fourth hand accounts of what was said. we still stick to the same conclusion or the facts that the ukrainians were not aware that the security aid was withheld or held up until august 29th. it was released on september 11th, how can there be a quid pro quo when they werent even aware that it was withheld? >> its very simple, they are cla...

Energy firm where hunter biden sat on the board, the push to make volodymyr zelinsky commit to investigations of burisma and interference in the election showed how the official foreign policy of the united states was undercut by the efforts led by rudy giuliani. >> my ten short months in congress, it is not even noon and this is my most disturbing day in congress so far. >> reporter: news of the hold on usaid did not leave until august 29th, five weeks after the presidents phone call with the u...

Conversation between mr. trump and the administrations point man for the european union, quote president trump told ambassador sondland he was not asking for a quid pro quo but president trump did insist that president zelensky go to a microphone and saying he is opening an investigation. >> in my ten short months in congress, its not even noon and this is my most disturbing day in congress so far. >> republicans point to his admission that news did not leak until august 29th, almost five weeks ...

Congress, its not even noon, right? and this is the -- my most disturbing day in congress so far. >> but republicans point to taylors admission that, quote, news on the quote u.s. aid did not leak until august 29th. almost five weeks after the presidents phone call with the ukrainian leader, which they say undercut democrat claims of a quid pro quo. with taylors explosive claims, republicans accuse their colleagues of unfair tactics. >> the democrats will now not even allow republicans to have a...

That youre supposed to get your enemies. they took it literally, that if the president said youve got to go get your enemies, well, weve got to go get our enemies. >> nixon, he did not know they were doing the break-in, but once it happened he was convinced they had to engage in a cover-up. >> by august 29th, nixon is deeply involved, to my surprise, in all the key elements of the cover-up. >> who do you think gave the orders to bug the watergate? >> well, the persons who the grand jury indicted...