A year the United States has seen to it that deadliest white supremacist attacks in its recent history were born far out from the pentagon in october of 2018 a gunman murdered 11 jewish worshipers at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh pennsylvania. Talking about. Then in august 22 people were shot dead in an attempt to kill as many latinos as possible in El Paso Texas. Just 9 months apart these attacks were connected to the ideology of White Supremacy and only read gradually and i think we all come to realize how extensive this underground network is of people who have bought into this hateful belief system. Those things are being nurtured by our president in his language and actually stoked against license to people like the shooter to do violence against communities. To pittsburgh suspect was critical of donald trump and theyll pass so shooter distance himself from the president in his manifesto. But both men frame their actions as responses to crises real or imagined that the
Of all and ill start with kaitlan with you. Listen to this. This is sondland making this very significant statement earlier today. I know that members of this committee frequently frame these complicated issues in the form of a simple question. Was there a quid pro quo . As i testified previously, with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is yes. He makes it clear, absolutely, totally discarding what the president and his allies are saying for weeks. And what the white house are relying on and what the president was reading from earlier was the conversation where he had and called the president to ask if there was a quid pro quo and he said the president got angry and said there was not one and that he didnt want anything from ukraine. But what they are they are ignoring is what he started his testimony with today that yes, in relation to the aid to the white house to the white house call and the white house meeting, there was a quid pro quo.
Trump is now talking about is that impeachment spectacle. Lets go back to him. He is a political operative. These gentlemen know it. And frankly the ig never shouldve brought him. If he wouldve compared with the whistleblower said to what i said in the conversation. Two conversations, really. But to what i said in the conversation with the president , who i think is a terrific person, of ukraine, he wouldve said, wait a minute, the whistleblower said this. And that wasnt the conversation, because we have the transcribed conversation. And also, shifty schiff is dishonest, a corrupt politician. When he imitated, tried to copy my conversation and his copy, he made up a conversation, went before congress, and made up a phony conversation. Just like he does every time he talks. He is a phony. He is a very dishonest, very corrupt politician. And look, the big upset, as you folks know, was when i released the transcript. Because i dont like doing that because you have to keep this very, very