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Russian force. 200,000 russian soldiers in the country and yet you see no weakness there and no sign they will surrender. president zelensky has surprised everyone, including me, with his extraordinary leadership abilities at this very difficult time. as for poland, it says it is willing to send fighter jets. to ukraine. that getting in there is no easy matter. also the polish officials im told are still negotiating with the americans over whether or not we would replace these fighter jets if an...

His defenders here have tried to excuse his misconduct by pointing to statements from the ukraine president that he was not under pressure to give into president trumps demand. did your investigative committees consider those statements by president zelensky? >> we did. and we found that the statements of of what is effectively a extortion victim are not particularly relevant to the actual truth of the matter. because president zelensky cannot in reality for the same reasons that hes interpreted...

President zelensky and he disregards all the talking points prepared for him on corruption by the national security council. second, investigations of the bidens and he debunked a conspiracy theory about the 2016 election were not supported by official u.s. policy. and third, congress authorized military aid to ukraine. ukraine passed all the checks that the united states established to ensure that it was taking appropriate actions to fight corruption and there was unanimous consent amongst the ...

Smith correct. ambassador sondland said that president trump himself brought up the words quid pro quo? >> thats right. ambassador sondland also said that too. >> mr. goldman, what did the committee make of this fact? >> it was quite odd the president would volunteer in response to nothing about a quid pro quo that there was no. quid pro quo. what was more important immediately after that was which is effectively conduct that amounts to the quid pro quo. there is no quid pro quo but you have to ...

Quote, abundantly clear to them that if they wanted the aid, and i quote that they were going to have to make these statements. mr. goldman, beginning on and around the tent 25th of july call through december, would you agree that consistent with the testimony be revealed, ukraine was made aware that to receive our military aid and white house visit, they would have to make a statement announcing the investigations? >> not only where they made aware, they were made aware either by president trum...

We know that president trump as president zelensky to look into the investigations and for u.s. officials to talk to his personal attorney about the investigations, correct? >> yes. if i could jump in here, on the july 25th call because these four facts we keep hearing about that are not in dispute, three of them are completely wrong. one of them happens to be that there is no quid pro quo mentioned in the july 25th call. there is absolutely a quid pro quo when president zelensky says i want to ...

Discuss the facts within our lack thereof, there will be arguments that will never change. both president trump and president zelensky says theres no pressure. plus there is no conditionality between aid and investigation. ukrainians were not aware that aid was withheld, and ukraine did not open investigation but still received a meeting with president trump. i want to mr. castor, did the democrats impeachment report rely on hearsay to support their assertions? >> yes, it did. >> how many times ...

Different occasions to note the grave concerns about the presidents conduct. what led to draft the notes on these files? >> there was a conversation at the end of june were several american officials had indicated to president zelensky that he needed to go forward with these investigations. there was one august 14th i recall -- but you bring up a very important points, which is all of the state department witnesses and particularly, and frankly all the witnesses other than ambassador sondland to...

Defenders here have tried to excuse his misconduct by pointing to statements from the ukraine president that he was not under pressure to give into president trumps demand. did your investigated committees consider those statements by president zelensky? >> we did. and we found the statements of what is effectively an extortion victim are not particularly relevant to the actual truth of the matter because president zelensky cannot for the same reasons he integrated integrated that will potential...

Right? >> writes. >> according to the u.s. investor to ukraine and we have ambassador taylors testimony there, it wasnt until ambassador sondland told the ukrainians that there would be , but zelensky agreed to the investigations president trump was demanding, correct? >> thats right, yes. >> furthermore the committee heard testimonies that they felt they had no choice but to comply with president trumps demands. correct? >> yes, even after the aide was released. >> in fact, when asked of presid...