You dont think that affects our National Security, if you think ukraine is our ally as i believe you do and i do . I just dont accept the premise of your premises of thoughts. All right. What value for ukraine do you see in the oval office visit that was being sought . Youd have to ask ukraine. Do you recognize that such a visit would send a strong message to russia sort of like lavrov being in the Oval Office Last week and the rest of the world that the United States supported ukraine and was ready to defend it against russian aggression. I think a better statement was when mr. Trump sent russian weapons to shoot down russian assets. That ignored the fact that the aid was withhold and hot war was going. All due respect were going in circles. I do not believe there was anything wrong for the reasons stated. And mr. Trump did more for the ukrainians in the hot war than was previously done. You know, ive heard that before. Im not going to elaborate. But i can assure you if they point as you do and many do to president obama not providing lethal weapons what the minority fails to note during the early stanls of the Trump Administration the lethal weapons were provided to ukraine. And it wasnt until the lead up to the 2020 election and after former the Vice President biden nounsed his candidacy did President Trump exert official duties and place pennsylvania hold on lethal aid. Let me turn to corruption. Ostensibly, this july 25th the transcript reflects according to my friends on the other side, both in judiciary and to the extent that the report from intelligence reflects it, that in this particular matter that corruption was what was being sought to be determined. Let me urge President Trump to look around the world if he wants to talk about corruption. And have him answer for me why he cozies up to russia and all roads lead to russia when we all know how corrupt they are and what they have done in the previous election and what they are doing in the run up to this election. And yes, my county my state had two counties that hackers from russia were successful. And he has the audacity to go out and say now they dont talk about russia in the elections, theyre talking about ukraine. Why is it that the the president as the chairman pointed out, codys up to a dictator like duterte in the philippines . Why is he not looking right here in this hemisphere where we have not paid as much attention as we should dsh and i believe my colleague will address. But i need to raise venezuela. And i arent havent heard much with him reference to lately about venezuela, about el salvador, havent heard other than china dealing with trade anybody in here that doesnt believe china is corrupt, then you should just visit any one of the places where people are in gulags and being held and how intellectuals and religious leaders are being tortured in that country. Not to mention the chairman pointed to it, as what the president said, that he fell in love with kim jong un. And kim jong un is preparing missiles and if successful may one day be able to reach this country. And there is no reason to believe that he wouldnt. Is the president aware of whats going on in italy . Is he aware of whats going on in india . How about iran . I havent heard him say a mumbling word about whats happening in iran . Is he aware of whats going on in lebanon . Is he aware of the corruption thats being identified and how chile is on the bubble . I just cant believe you people. And let me turn now to this and ask you all and i already know the answer can anybody in here, particularly those of us on the rules committee neighbor any other president in the history of the United States that has asked of a Foreign Government or its leaders to investigate an american citizen for political purposes . Can anybody in here identify any president that has done that . Seeing none, ill proceed. The simple fact of the matter is that my colleagues have determined that theyre going to go down the road of distraction and are not going to discuss the facts in this matter let me tell you some of the people that you all should have heard from and some would argue that we should wait until the courts and im sure that the administration would fight all the way to keep secretary pompeo from testifying, john bolton from testifying, mick mulvaney, dan mcgahn don mcgahn the man that the president told to go and fire the fbi director. How about robert blare and michael duffy, the guys from Mick Mulvaneys shop where the aid has been withheld . Let me turn to this document. First off, let me ask both of you whether you know if a full verbatim transcript exists of this july 25th call . Mr. Collins do you know. I know that all the witnesses testified this was a clear and accurate transcript. Mr. Raskin do you know whether a verpt imtranscript exists. Of the all 25 call . That is not a verb imtranscript. But ive never seen ive never seen a verbatim transcript. There is no witness that testified or contradicted the statements in that in any of the testimony. Excuse me. They did not. They said that the transcript was accurate. Well what about all the people that testified before the committee that discussed matters that they thought were wrong that the president did . Well, mr. Hastings, i wish we had all those people testify before my committee, but they didnt. Let me turn to the footnote on this unclassified document thats in the record. It says a member couple of a telephone conversation is not a verbatim transcript of a discussion. The text in this document records the notes and recollections of situation room Duty Officers and nsc policy staff assigned to listen and memorialize the conversation in written form as the conversation takes place. A number of factors can affect the accuracy of the record, including poor telecommunications connections, and variations in accent and or interpretation. The word, quote qb inaudible, unquote, is used to indicate, it says, indicate portions of a conversation that the note taker was unable to hear. Do either of you know why the full transcript is in a classified server that can be accessed only by the highest of of authorities insofar as classification of their ability . Do any of you know why this thing is in a server, the classified server. No, i cannot give you the full explanation of that. Mr. Kohl license. Mr. Morrison testified it was put there in dpfrt order. He testified to that. Administrative error. Thats his words not mine. Who is mr. Morris. The gentleman that testified at committee the from the nsy. Did he put it in the server. He would have testified to of it we would haved loved the witnesses in zbleev would you love to have the server id love the witnesses. We got people running around ukraine. We have people bribing publishing Public Officials thats a ukraineening issue as well but on this there is no credible witness mo said there is anything in the transcript that was not there. I find. None of your witnesses. Your witnesses. I find that the president , goes out issues this unclassified statement. And there is a statement out there somewhere in a classified server that may have gotten there mistakenly, according to mr. Morrison, as you are testifying, but my question ultimately would be, why is it there . Why hasnt it been retrieved . And why have you all not received it . But i digress. Let me go on finish up with this finish up with the unclassified the hearing. Fls a ghiks. Are you implying there was another transcript out there. Im implying there is more than what we have here. Thats in the serber. Which no witness to to testified to. No witness. Of your tnss witnesses testified to. Understood. I was making sure you didnt believe there was another transcript out there. I dont know whats out there. I know something in this serve sfwleer well thats about like with the Intelligence Committee that they havent transferred to judicialary. Id love to see in the serve sfwleer id love to see from the Intelligence Committee from 8660 we are in agreement there. In that regard we are. I would also let me tell you what even the media in dealing with this statement have not gone into certain of its particulars. Here is what was said by mr. Zelensky. And im trun indicating this so we can get oh other business. I would like to thank you for your support. Mr. Mr. Linzee ski to President Trump. In the area of defense. We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps, specifically we are almost ready to buy javelins from the United States for defense purposes. President trump replies. Id like you to do us a favor, though. This is from the man talking about buy javelins. He goes immediately to id like for you to do us a favor though. And a lot of emphasis has not been placed on that language. And im not a linguistic person. But the last time i recall somebody asking me to do a favor, though, it was for something that they wanted, and i cant believe that policy is what he was talking about. He goes on to say, because our country has been through a lot, and ukraine knows a lot about it. Id like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine. They say crowdstrike i guess you have one of your wealth people, the server, they say ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you are surrounding yourself with some of the same people. Id like you id like to have the attorney general, meaning our attorney general and my question is, why would you like the attorney general to call you or your people . And id like you to get to the bottom of it. As saw yesterday that whole nonsense ened with a very poor performance by Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance. But they say a lot of it started with ukraine. And my question is, who said that . The only people that i know that said that are the russians. Yes, mr. Raskin. Thank you very much for raising this important point, mr. Hastings. Dr. Fiona hill, leading russia expert, who figures importantly in this whole matter, has testified before in committee and its completely uncontradicted and unrefuted, that this crowdstrike story about ukraine being the one that attacked our election in 2016 is russian disinformation. The president there was essentially just repeating russian disinformation and propaganda. Either waitingly or unwittingly. It seems he thought he had something there but thats what he was repeating. There is nothing behind it. Its been completely debunked and discredited. Umhum. But what makes me suspicious, mr. Hastings, is that he decided to tie that in with his other plan. Okay. Which is to get president zelensky to come and point the finger at joe biden and say this is the guy we are investigating. You talk about National Security and how National Security was compromised. And obviously america is a country that nations all over the world look to. And we are interested in our the security of our land and our people but also that of our allies and Strategic Partners around the world. And we should have some interest in what happens to ukraine and whether russia is going to get to trample National Security ornd. But here is another way National Security is kbhikted if we say ever after we are going to allow the president of the United States to use the awesome powers of his office to shakedown foreign leaders. Duterte in philippines. And putin in russia or struggling democrats that need our help like the reformers zelensky is ukraine. But the president can shake them down and get them involved on a covert basis in our campaign. The president might think he is slick getting away with that but now there is a Foreign Government with something on us. They have leverage on us at that point. It turns out. Mr. Hastings would you like me. Of course. You are always great at this. I think we are looking at the wrong direction here. Its interesting we can talk about all the other corruption and the dislike of the way in president dealt with them. But we have to remember even in the transcript you just read its a backwards look not a forwards look. A 2016 look at what happened then. And you rightly read the transcript and talking about Robert Mueller coming out of the 2016 election. Did you read it report. I did read every bit as did my committee. And you agree with the finding. I zbree with the finding no exclusion are russia and he disinterested agreed with the members of the jshd straer on the obstruction. And 10 obstructions of the justice by the president. Because he didnt. No obviously you didnt listen the Judiciary Committee when several members outlined power opponents upon the streen here is this and this np but he looked at thn them and said disagree with your conclusion. You have to take the whole transcript. This is the this is what im talking with. The Mueller Report had been done. But fiona hill. Im reclaiming. Fiona hill is interesting because he brought up the feen oi ail era hill i want to say this. Yurkens even fiona hill said the ukraineening bet on the wrong horse after being reminded by ken vogel that the ukrainian officials, the shengo the kbir for the Ukrainian Parliament was providing informing to knell mri oar. All to the steel dossier. Aligning themselves with clinton. Were you there when miss hill testified. Not for miss hills testimony, no. Im happy to transcript the read the transcript just like you. All i can tell you she dropped a time on President Trumps actions in ukraine. But not enough to find articles of impeach. Standing alone perhaps. This is where we can honestly disagree. Is i disagree that abuse of power is a categorical tornado watch kauch and thank you. Youre going to bill fill buster. Thank you. Im reclaiming my time both of yall talk pretty fast i might add in defense of mr. Collins for a minute. Continuing, what President Trump says is its very important that you do it if its possible. Truncating again because there is so much in here. But ill try to start midparagraph with mr. Zelenskys reply. Id like to hope and see him having your trust. Talking about an ambassador he is standing to the United States, and your confidence have and personal relations with so we can cooperate even more so. I will personally tell you that one of my assistants spoke with mr. Giuliani just recently. And we are hoping very much that mr. Giuliani will be able to travel to ukraine, and we will meet once he comes to ukraine. My question there is, meet about what . When giuliani comes to ukraine . And the president just recently said that giuliani is a good man, and a patriot, and he he is doing this for love. Last time i bought an airline ticket, i didnt present something that said love. And the question becomes, who is paying giuliani . I have a theory about it, but i wont go into it. Then he goes on to say i wanted to share assure you once again you have nobody but friends around us. Ill make sure you surround myself with the best and most experienced people. He goes on at some point so we can continue our Strategic Partnership. I also plan to surround myself with great people in addition to that investigation. I guarantee you as the president of ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and condition diddly. That i can assure you. Then trump says good because i heard you you had a prosecutor who was very good and shut down. Opinion and thats really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of new york city, a great man. And id like him to cull you. Ill also i will ask him to call you along with the attorney general. Rudy very much knows whats happening. And he is a very capable guy. If you could speak to him, that would be great. The former ambassador from the United States, the woman was bad news. And the people she was dealing with in the ukraine were bad news. So i just wanted to let you know that. The other thing, there is a lot of talk about bidens son, that boyden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. So whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution. So if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. Now then, zelensky says truncating again, that since we have won the absolute majority in person, my candidate who will be approved by the parliament and start as a new prosecutor in september, he or she will look into the situation, specifically to the company. And my guess is he is talking about burisma in that particular incident, mentioned in this issue, the issue of the investigation of the case is actually the issue of making sure to restore the honesty so we will take care of that and well work on the investigation of the case. On top of that, id kindly ask you if you have any Additional Information you can provide us it would be very helpful for the investigation to make sure we administrative justice in our country with regard to the ambassador to the United States from ukraine. As far as i can recall her name was yovanovitch. She didnt dev having president President Trump say she will go through some things. Im sure youll figure if out. I heard the prosecutor was treated badly. Now everybody in the european union, friends of mine knew that preshengo was a cook and there is nobody in the room. And trump should have known that or had poor staffing during that period of time. Im ending here we are he says good and thank you very much. I appreciate that. Ill tell rudy and attorney general barr to call. And i just cant believe that perry and sondland and Rudy Giuliani and whoever the three amigos were were running around in ukraine in som