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>> finally president zelensky relented after months of what he called the domestic u.s. political process and ultimately recognizing that he had no choice to break the stalemate as ambassador sondland told them that he ultimately agreed to go on television before president trump got caught and released the aid of. >> id like to direct your attention to the screen in front of you. that headline said, trump tried to force ukraine to metal in the 2020 elections and the article reports that presiden...

House democrats want to claim its a conspiracy that ukraine officials attempted to interfere with the 2016 election. yet ukrainian attempts to interfere with the 2016 election are well documented by politico, by financial times, and they held there was an attempt to influence our elections, and thats troubling and thats why president trump brought it to the attention of president zielinski. again, those are the facts. at the end of the day, those facts dont seem to matter to my democrat colleagu...

For the aid be refused? no. a white house meeting? no. to morrison when questioned, there was no quid pro quo answered, correct. the aide was released, four fax never change for both president trump and president zelensky say there is no pressure. the call says there is no conditionality between aid. ukraine did and opened an investigation but still received aid and a meeting with president trump. mr. castro, has any committee heard from the whistle-blower in any closed-door hearings? >> no. >> ...

>> that was corrected no witness testified there was any review or investigation of any sort related to the ukraine and aid. >> is it true that the defense department determined not to conduct a review on ukraine after the president froze the military aid because ukraine had already met all of the corruption benchmarks in may of 2019? >> yes, and everyone involved in ukraine policy believed that they were on the right path and president zelensky in particular. >> in addition to ukraine having sa...

>> sinking feeling? >> thinking feeling, correct. he went and talked to the lawyers at the direction of ambassador bolton. >> correct. and mr. goldman, ambassador taylor also testified that he concluded that the military aid was conditioned on the zelensky announcing the investigations and he testified that this was illogical, crazy, and wrong. is that right? >> thats what ambassador taylor testified to, yes. >> my colleagues have also pointed out that on september 9th, a text message from sondl...

20 section election interference, and that president zelensky should want to do that himself? >> thats right. we had a number of different accounts on this. >> they are up on the boards here. >> i see this. ambassador taylor said that mr. morrison said something similar, their understandings of that conversation was there was a clear directive that there was a quid pro quo factually from the conduct, from the actions. we talk a lot today about the words and zelensky said no pressure, trump had n...

True in the text message, including that there was no quid pro quo of any kind when he testified and we saw the video earlier that they are absolutely assuredly was as it related to the white house meeting. >> this september 7 call andy september 9th text occurred after the press reports, that is after the press reports that president trump is conditioning military aid on investigations of his political rivals, is that correct? >> yes. this text occurred after ambassador sondland relayed the mes...

Greatest power in the world and ukraine, which is so dependent on the united states not just for the military assistance but for all of its support made such a request effectively a demand because president zelensky could not in reality say no. >> is this vast power disparity in part because ukraine has been at war with russia since russia invaded five years ago, and over 13,000 of the ukraine have died? >> yes, and the only has the u.s. provided its military budget but a critical ally and rally...

Youre reading the quote. yes. >> okay. now, the president and some of his defenders here have tried to excuse his misconduct by pointing to statements from the ukraine president that he was not under pressure touk give in president trumps demand. did your investigative committees consider those statements by president zelensky? >> we did. and we found that the statements of what is, effectively, an extortion victim are not particularlyrt relevant to the actual truth of the matter because preside...

Hard to do whatever it takes to help the american president. he understood, however, because hes a savvy guy, i spent a while with him, he understood and now im guessing that this would cause problems if he were to choose a republican over a democrat. >> the testimony says that. >> or decide to investigate -- right, biden and the clintons, that would put him in an awkward position. what if trump didnt win? he was trying to play both sides and delay and punt and when it became absolutely clear he...