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Investigation? >> i would say a couple things. first of all, as i mentioned, we continued to investigate whether this scheme began earlier than expected, whether it involved the last president of ukraine. but look, we have provided overwhelming evidence in this report of a scheme to pressure the current president of ukraine to conduct these political investigations. will it move others if were able to show that this was not the first time, this was the second time? i think what we have produced ...

Reserve judgment but as you can tell, i am gravely concerned that if we merely accept this, that we invite not only further corruption of our elections by this president but we also invite it of the next president. so i am keenly aware of the significance of the precedent we set in whatever direction we move, and im also very strongly guided by the fact that one of the seminal moments in this scheme took place the day after bob mueller testified, the day after donald trump thought that the last ...

Election and used the power of his office, the power to convene a meeting in the oval office, the power to provide or withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to an ally at war to get his political dirty work done. the only question is how much more, how more extensive was the scheme, how many others were involved, what was the full knowledge and participation of other parties, and while we intend to get the answers to those questions and let the american people know the full facts, we do...

That is a conspiracy theory put out, promulgated by vladimir putin to deflect attention away from russias interference in our own election and to try to drive a wedge between the united states and the nation of ukraine. so thats what the president wanted, these two sham investigations, one into joe biden, also debunked and discredit discredited, that sham investigative theory, but also into this idea that ukraine interfered in our election, not russia. and he was willing to sacrifice the nationa...

Many things including bribery, corrupting our electoral process, extorting a foreign country using federally appropriated dollars. theres a lot that could go into that. the question is whether you break out into a separate article, bribery, separate from that broader abuse of power. then you have contempt, obstruction of congress and that is where many things could also go into because so much has been obstructed under this administration, many different investigations, including ukraine, includ...

President and to the white house that this was going to become public, this scheme was going to become public, only then did the president of the united states release the military aid. as for that white house meeting that ukraine so desperately sought, that has still not happened to this day. now, what does this mean for americans? why should they care about what the president did vis-a-vis ukraine? why should they care indeed about ukraine? first of all, this is not about ukraine. this is abou...

Thank the incredible members of all three committees, as well as our amazing staff that did long hours of work through depositions, open hearings and compiling all of the evidence into todays report. it was an enormous task and i want to begin by acknowledging the great work of the great and late colleague of mine, elijah cummings. we continued to be inspired by his legacy and guided by thoughts of his integrity and the great moral clarity that he always showed in his work. i also want to thank ...

Responsible judgment about whether we think thats compatible with the office of the presidency. >> chairman, do the phone records cast doubt on anything youve heard from the witnesses or anything the president has said publicly? >> no, they dont. at least that i can identify at this moment. i think the phone records are remarkably consistent with the coordination of a lot of this scheme. now, we obviously dont have complete phone records and some of the phone records are deeply suggestive of who...

Evidence or indeed whether we obtained communications from one or multiple parties, but certainly the phone records show that there was considerable coordination among the parties including the white house, coordination in the smear campaign against ambassador yovanovitch which cleared the way for the three amigos to take over a significant part of ukraine policy, coordination in the execution of that policy, and that this was indeed a continuum that began even prior to the recall of the ambassa...

Zelenskys pre predecessor. now, if some sort of evidentiary bombshell falls into the house judiciary committee, schiff has said previously that they would provide that information by way of a supplemental report to the judiciary committee. the other thing that is an interesting takeaway here is that this report really provides the backbone for at least two articles of impeachment, one being abuse of power connected to the alleged bribery plot extortion scheme. the other of course is obstruction ...