president s phone call. it s not on this this cascade of events or whatever you want to call it, but it is about the fact that, well, if ukraine is corrupt, then whatever the president did was probably the right thing, and that the policy, that congress approved, and financed, was not the right you know, ip so factso inventing an excuse to do something no longer contested it happened. this is how republicans have to twist themselves in knots and pretzels to try to explain what s not explainable and accept what s not acceptable. so we the people, like i said, have to make a decision. the democrats i have to give them credit here. they re taking a big risk. you want to say something? just add what we re looking at, live pictures here. all of this happening as the president is in london for the nato summit. he and first lady melania trump
world, so much is at stake and the repercussions of this report and what happens in this impeachment hearing i think will play out for a very long time. not just in our elections. and undere scoring my point. we re going to decide who we are and what we will tolerate. a line on page 3. the impeachment inquiry found that president trump personally and acting through agents within and outside of the u.s. government solicited the interference of a foreign government, ukraine, to benefit his re-election. to your point, how embarrassing. he s there for nato, with the queen of england. everyone knows what s going on, like the 800-pound elephant in the room. i m embarrassed as a lifelong republican i am embarrassed and ash ashamed of the republican party not one person could stand up and say this conduct is unacceptable. it s not about partisanship. it s about what s right and wrong and it s a shame not one republican in the house has done
that even they discussed a quid pro quo or any security assistance tied to investigations in a conversation with sondland in that warsaw meeting. nevertheless, democrats say this effort by the president tied in everybody in the administration and also saying in this report, brianna, this goes beyond the effort, to oust the ukrainian ambassador marie yovanovitch. they re saying this scheme the president was involved in part of an effort removing this ambassador to further the president s political interests and putting his personal attorney rudy giuliani in charge of u.s. and ukraine policy and laying out a detailed account in their view of what they see as clear misconduct by the president, abuse of power and obstruction of congress as you mentioned. we can expect articles of impeachment to be drafted along those lines talking about abuse of power as well as obstructing the will of congress.