floating. we wanted to really dive into what he says he s learned. so the first bucket of allegations has to do with these two multibillion corruption schemes that he says he has uncovered and that he says the obama administration and former ambassador yovanovitch worked to cover up because it essentially would look bad for democrats. one was a $5.3 billion what he says was a corruption scheme involving wasted u.s. taxpayer dollars. so we took a hard look at that. it turns out the u.s. has never given $5.3 billion to ukraine. the top recipient of u.s. aid, israel, has ever only received about $3.8 billion. there was an accounting review in ukraine that found some of the money wasn t spent as effectively as it could have, but no evidence of corruption or money laundering. same with the over $7 billion scheme that giuliani has been talking related to the investment firm franklin
corruption scheme? yes. mr. castor, there are four are disputable facts that will never change that prove there is no in impeachable offense, no quid pro quo on the july 25th call, ukraine leadership did not know the aide was held up at the time of the july 25th telephone call, ukraine received a white house meeting phone call, and aid even though ukraine didn t initiate any investigations. do you agree? ukraine received a meeting with vice president pence in warsaw had a meeting not at the white house but in new york at the united nations. mr. castor, did mr. turley testify in the past hearing that this impeachment inquiry has not passed chairman nadler s three-pronged test? he did. thank you. i yelled back. thank you. the gentleman from washington is recognized. thank you.
the impeachment hearing may be implicated in a scheme to do what trump is about to get impeached for. using ukraine to dig up dirt on a fellow american. which would be a pretty clear and brazen conflict of interest. on saturday, on this show, i asked congressman adam smith whether the allegations could result in a congressional ethics investigation into nunes. do you believe it should be a matter for an investigation regarding mr. nunn es? quite likely. newly released state department documents have drawn mike pompeo deeper into the corruption scheme. the documents, which show communications between pompeo and giuliani shortly before ambassador marie was forced out of her post, also further implicate pompeo in a scheme to oust the ambassador. joining me now is congressman jamie raskin of maryland, also a member of the house judiciary committee.
only going to see rot and corruption in ukraine, it s going to happen worldwide, and this is bigger than just ambassador yovanovitch, but today this is about the president s corruption scheme in ukraine and person he moved out of the way to make it happen faster. when you hear the ambassador, it also becomes clear just how much u.s. policy seems under this president to be driven, at least in terms of ukraine, based on a conspiracy theory? yes. very alarming to hear that the president of the united states was using debunked conspiracy theories. on cnn a couple months ago. the former homeland security office tom bossert jake tapper that these conspiracy theories were not true. the president whether he believed them or not he needed them and others to be true because that s only way that he was able to clear the decks so that the ukrainians could
everybody followed it through. the president of ukraine was ready to engage in this act of corruption until the president got caught. the only thing that stopped this extortion scheme from coming to fruition was the fact that the whistle-blower came forward that prompted all these folks working for the white house to clear their conscious ence by telling truth as well. if not for those truth tellers this would have been a massive corruption scheme that actually occurr occurred. one of the things the republicans brag about here is that the aid was released to ukraine on september 11th, but of course the timing there was days after the white house became aware of the whistle-blower complaint. senator chris murphy from connecticut, thanks for being with us this morning. thanks a lot. breaking overnight, cnn obtained a memo of the republican play book. it shows just how some they plan to fight back during tomorrow s impeachment hearings. we ll take a closer look and look at whether t