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To answer for, and as we laid out in this report, the evidence is quite overwhelming that the president of the united states used the power of his office, $400 million of taxpayer military assistance to help an ally fighting the russians, as well as a desperately sought meeting in the white house to coerce an ally into doing his political dirty work, to doing these investigations that he thought would help his re-election. the president will have to answer for that, and we will have to decide he...

Already set led by two. lets watch their shenanigans here. >> gentlemen is not recognized. >> i have a point of order, though. >> gentlemen is not recognized. i do want to respond -- gentlemen is not recognized. >> there are four transcripts that have not been released -- >> gentlemen is not recognized. >> holy cow. >> are either of you here today to assert there was an impeachable offense in that call? shout it out. anyone? >> mr. radcliffe, if i could respond let me just reiterate -- >> ive go...

Said this was there a quid pro quo opening statement as i testify previously, with regard to a requested white house call white house meeting answer is yes that they didnt need to be a public statement from president zelensky when the chairman asked you, about this security assistance you said there needed to be a public a knownsment from zelensky im asking when did that happen? >> never did. >> never did? they the got the call july 25th -- they the go the meeting not not white house but in new ...

Were -- everybody was kind of wondering what was happening. we didnt know if there were explosives or things like this, so we went to the back of the bus to get as far away as possible. then we heard the police shouting at us and people more or less saying run, so the driver opened the doors and we ran as quickly as we could. >> joining us now is james galliano. james, we still dont know the motive. we know someone was shot and killed. everyone is still on lockdown. are police worried about anot...

>> when did what happened. >> the announcement. >> when did president zelensky announce the investigation will hop on page 14 you said was there quid pro quo in your opening statement as they testify previously with regard to request an white house call, yes they needed to be a public statement from president zelensky when the chairman asked you about the security assistance you said they needed to be a public announcement from zelensky. im asking you a civil question, when did that happen? >> n...

>> when did what happened. >> the announcement. >> when did president zelensky announce the investigation will hop on page 14 you said was there quid pro quo in your opening statement as they testify previously with regard to request an white house call, yes they needed to be a public statement from president zelensky when the chairman asked you about the security assistance you said they needed to be a public announcement from zelensky. im asking you a civil question, when did that happen? >> n...

Next day, is that right? >> thats what it says. >> now, lets go to that press statement that you were discussing in august. you testified, i believe, that you understood that rudy giuliani was representing the presidents interests with regard to ukraine, is that right? >> thats what we all understood. >> who do you mean we all? >> secretary perry, ambassador volker, myself. >> in august you and ambassador volker were coordinating with andre yermak, the zelensky aide, about a press statement. i w...

>> lisa kenna responds gordon, ill pass to s. s is secretary pompeo? >> correct. >> thank you, lisa. now, two days later you have a text exchange with ambassador volker again. this is at the end of it. the earlier text which we dont have here, you may recall includes the press statement, the revised press statement that includes burisma and the 2016 election. do you recall that? >> yes. if i could see it, that would be helpful, but yes. >> but you ultimately remembered that after your conversati...

Nobody involved in making and implementing policy towards ukraine knew why the aid had been put on hold. during august, sondland participated in conference calls and text messages with volker and giuliani and said that the gist of every call was what was going to go in the press statement? in august 9, text message with volker, sondland stated, i think potus really wants the deliverable which was, according to sondland, a deliverable public statement that president trump wanted to see or hear be...

Assistance to ukraine which had been announced on a secure interagency videoconference on july 18 telling uls it was extremely odd that nobody involved in making and implementing policy towards ukraine knew why the aid was put on old. during august sondland participated in calls with volker and giuliani the gist of every call what was going to go in the press statement. in august 9 text message with volker he stated i think potus wants the deliverable, which was according to sondland a deliverab...