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Motivated investigations into his political rival. and you saw the clip where ambassador sondland picked up the phone, called president trump and then mr. holmes asked him, what the president thought about ukraine and quickly what was mr. simons answer? >> mr. simon said the president doesnt give a bleep about just the investigation mr. giuliani was pushing. that was direct between president trump and ambassador sondland that day. >> we know what president trump was interested in based on his wo...

The private confirmation was not enough because he wanted the political benefit. >> this could benefit the president politically because the announcement alone could be twitter fodder between now and the next election to smear a political rival. thats consistent with the findings. president nixon attempted to corrupt elections and his agents broke into democratic party headquarters to get a leg up on the election. then he tried to cover it up just as we have seen obstruction here. even more conc...

>> talks about treason and bribery and be admitted for the record. be made part of the record. >> majority forward without objections. >> thank you, getting back to the facts surrounding the presidents abuse of power using the white house meeting as leverage for helping his political campaign, president trump offered ukrainian president zelensky a meeting in the white house but first, he wanted an investigation into the bidens in a conspiracy theory about meddling in the election. you testified ...

A 300-page black and white report does not. >> congressman, thus far the american public has been witness to a sprawl of evidence that you heard on the intelligence committee in addition to the mueller report. but putting it altogether and thinking about it, how many counts would you like to see in any impeachment proceeding brought against the president? >> well, my guess is that youre going to see at least two. youre going to see abuse of power, which of course is using that white house meetin...

The second is, he just wanted the public announcement, the private confirmation was not enough and thats anma indicati that he wanted the political benefit fromhe them. >> yeah. looks to me that the announcement of the investigation could benefit the presidentne politically because the announcement alone could be twitterne fodder between now an thewe next election to smear a political rival. thats consistent with the findings. you know, president nixon attempted to corrupt elections and his agen...

Grounds for presidential impeachment. that talks about treason and bribery be admitted for the record. >> what? >> be made part of our record. >> majority. without objection. >>or thanks. >> mr. deutsch. >> thank you. getting back to the d facts surrounding the tpresidents abuse of power using the white house u meeting as leverage for helping his political campaign. mr.s goldman, president trump offered ukrainian president zelensky a meeting in the white house.le but first, he wanted investigati...

And an essential white house meeting as his leverage. that is unacceptable and a grave abuse of power. i yield back.us >> the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for five minutes. >> thanked you, madam chairwoma. you know, in the navy, we had a saying. bluff. which is bottom line up front. let me give everybody the bottom line. we are here because democrats are terrified that president trump is going to win re-election. thats really what this all comes down to. let me get into specifics. w...

Our own ears. so mr. goldman, id like your help in responding to some of the claims that my republican colleagues have made today. >> happily. >> the president and his allies say that there was no quid pro quo. in other words, they claimhe th the president wasnt withholding the aid in exchange for the manufactured political investigation. isnt it true that the aid was withheld andas that there has bn no logical explanation for the withholding of that aid? >> there is common sense that leads one ...

That correct? . that is what ambassador sondland said -- or actually, thats what president trump -- ambassador sondland said to president trump. apologies. >> you testified earlier that evidence shows that the ukrainians in fact did know that the aid was being withheld. my colleagues continue to say and their witness continue to say thatue there couldnt be leverage because theyat had no idea that the aid was being withheld, yet there has been evidence that shows that they knew. is thatt at corre...

It was according to this report a multistep intricate conspiracy that lasted months. you could see much of it laid out right here. this is the section where house democrats focus on donald trumps, quote, "misconduct." the first step was get rid of the ambassador and tell on any plots. step two was of course put giuliani in charge. democrats outlining what you have heard about, freezing the military aid to ukraine in order to get leverage to extrt help with the re-election. you have steps four an...