Figures constitutional patriotism. It look like President Trump might get away. Most americans didnt know anything about it in the few who knew of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. President trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I account for 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes, there were 17. I counted 17,000 officials who served republican and democratic president s alike who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security staffers came forward
to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as soon as they learned about it. Didnt they can make mr. Goldman . Morrison and vindman went to the lawyers. Yes. That move me a lot. My father was a staffer on the National Security council under President Kennedy and he said the most important thing you can bring to work with you every day is your conscience. He devoted his career to the idea that people must be truth to power when power becomes a Clear And Present Danger to democracy. And to the people. So i want to talk about two of the many honorable government witnesses who went under oath and stood up for the truth. Mr. Goldman, who is dr. Fiona hill . The director of the National Security council until this year. Her family had fled both
nazi germany and soviet russia. I think her family came from england. Marie yovanovitch that was Marie Yovanovitch. Dr. Hill advisor lawyers july 11 and why did she go to report what she had learned . What motivated her . She was concerned that Ambassador Sondland and Mick Mulvaney were entering into essentially a transaction whereby the ukrainians would open up these investigations for President Trumps political interests in return for getting the white house meeting that President Trump had offered. I want to talk about Deputy Assistant secretary george camp who served as a Career Foreign Service officer under five different president s, republicans and democrats alike. He updated notes to file on four
different occasions to note the grave concerns about the president s 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 took unbelievable, meticulous notes. I wouldve dreamed of for a witness like that as a prosecutor. It makes for a very clear and compelling record a clear and compelling evidence that spaced on based on contemporaneous notes. Do we have mr. Kents notes on this progress . We have none, advisor
solvents firstperson cable, these emails. So many documents that the few that we have gotten have been so helpful to the investigation. Why do we not have them . The State Department refused to provide them that was setting i was. The notwithstanding rrs subpoena. K out the crimes of the political leaders. In United States, not a lot of people are afraid despite President Trump trying to silence them. He is trying to make our country like russia and we can be think will found a lot of heroes who stood up to the truth for the constitution. I yelled back. Gentlemen yields back. Ms. Velasco. My first questions are for the American People. America, are you sick and tired of the Impeachment Scam . America, would you like congress
to get something done . I would sure do. Mr. Castor, the rest of the questions are for you. I would like yes or no questions if possible. My first question is important. Do any of the democrats back when this witnesses established the president had committed bribery, extortion, or high crime or misdemeanor. Good heavens, no. Mr. Castor, the Deputy Assistant of the National Security, mr. Morrison, listened in on the phone call. He testified that he was not concerned that anything discussed on the phone call was illegal or improper. Is that correct . Yeah, he was afraid about leaks. Witnesses testified its common for foreign aid to be paused for for various reasons including concerns that the country is corrupt and tax
dollars is misspent. Ambassador volker claimed that this hold was not significant. Is that correct . Yes, a number of witnesses also said the same thing. Former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified that in ukraine, and i quote, corruption is not just prevalent, but frankly is the system. Is that correct . Yes. All the witnesses confirmed the environment is very corrupt. Mr. Castor, Ukraine Company burisma held a reputation in ukraine is a corrupt company. Is that correct . Big time. According to the New York Times, hunter biden was part of a bribe effort by burisma to bring in wellconnected democrats during a period when the company was facing investigations. Is that correct . Yes. The new yorker also had a pretty extensive report on that too. Obamas Deputy Assistant secretary of state george kent testified that he raised concerns directly to Vice President bidens office about Hunter Bidens services on sondland burismas board. Is that correct . Yes. Mr. Castor, on the July 25th Call we all saw the video earlier today. Were joe biden bragged about he told ukraine, if the prosecutor is not fired, you arent getting the money. Mr. Castor, is this the same prosecutor that looked into burisma . It is. In a similar scheme, obamas Assistant Attorney General said, and i quote, awarding prestigious employment
opportunities to unqualified individuals in order to influence Government Officials is corruption. Plain and simple. Mr. Castor, heres another key question. Given that, one, burisma had the reputation of being a corrupt company, obamas own State Department was concerned about hunter biden serving on burismas board at the same time that Vice President biden was acting as point person, and three, obamas Assistant Attorney General said in a similar scheme that the corruption, there is corruption plain and simple, do you think then it is understandable, reasonable, and acceptable for President Trump to ask ukrainian president to look into the hunter biden burismas potential
corruption scheme . Yes. Mr. Castor, there are four are disputable facts that will never change that prove there is no in impeachable offense, no quid pro quo on the July 25th Call, ukraine leadership did not know the aide was held up at the time of the july 25th telephone call, ukraine received a white house meeting phone call, and aid even though ukraine didnt initiate any investigations. Do you agree . Ukraine received a meeting with Vice PresidentPence In Warsaw had a meeting not at the white house but in new york at the united nations. Mr. Castor, did mr. Turley testify in the past hearing that this Impeachment Inquiry has not passed chairman nadlers threepronged test . He did. Thank you. I yelled back. Thank you. The gentleman from washington is recognized. Thank you. Lets focus on the republican claim that President Trump withheld military aid to ukraine because he was supposedly concerned about corruption rather than the fact that he abused his office for personal gain. Let me be clear. We actually do not have to read the president s mind on this. As on page ten and will see on television, he told us himself what his intent was. What exactly did you hope zaleski would tell about the bidens after the phone call . I would think if they are honest about it, theyd start a Major Investigation on the bidens. Very simple answer. The first and best witness about the president s intent was donald trump. Lets review the basic facts with already established. First, President Trump does not even mention the word corruption during either of his calls with
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 State Department, national defense, National Security council that the president should release the Military Aid Ukraine critically needed to fight russian aggression. Mr. Goldman, between the time that President Trump put a hold on military aid to ukraine and then release the aid, the president never conducted an actual review or assessment on ukraine, did he . 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 satisfied all the relevant Corruption Assessment prior to u. S. Military aid being withheld, there is significant testimony that both the State Department and the Ukrainian Embassy actually advised that a white house meeting with president zelensky would help further anticorruption agenda, correct . Both the anticorruption agenda and the aggression, fighting the aggression from russia. In fact, President Trumps Budget Fights down the cuts
fighting for Corruption In Ukraine. Mr. Castor argued that he held up military aid because he was skeptical of foreign assistance in general. In both 2014 and didnt he release aid without any complaint about corruption . Thats correct. Mr. Goldman, the president was perfectly fine with giving aid in 2017 and 2018 but not in 2019 pick what changed . Joe biden started running for president. Vice president started running. And i would add these peanut report came out, it did not charge the president typically did to his campaign and welcoming the assistance from russia and utilizing it. The sequence of events and Corroborating Evidence makes it Crystal Clear that President Trump didnt care about corruption at all. As he told us himself on national television, he simply cared about his own politically
motivated investigations into his political rival. And you saw the clip where Ambassador Sondland picked up the phone, called President Trump and then mr. Holmes asked him, what the president thought about ukraine and quickly what was mr. Simons answer . Mr. Simon said the president doesnt give a bleep about just the investigation mr. Giuliani was pushing. That was direct between President Trump and Ambassador Sondland that day. We know what President Trump was interested in based on his words, his actions, and witness testimony. The president of the United States wanted ukraine to announce an investigation into a political rival for his own personal political benefit to interfere in our election, and he was willing to use u. S. Military aid, which is Taxpayer Dollars and an essential white house meeting as leverage. That is unacceptable and a grave abuse of power. I yield back. The gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for. Thank you. Let me give everybody the bottom line. We are here because democrats are terrified that President Trump is going to win reelection. Thats really what it comes down to. Let me get into the specifics. We are here dealing with impeachment because democrats dont want to talk about the redhot trump economy. They do not want to talk about the fact that we have the lowest Unemployment Rate in 50 years. We are dealing with impeachment because democrats dont want to talk about how the president has worked to protect American Companies from chinese aggression. How hes a really good negotiating renegotiating trade deals. Hes eliminated burdensome
regulations that hurt the economy. And help job creators. Congressional democrats dont want to be reminded that the American People, the democratic agenda includes such laughable ideas like banding airplanes, giving Illegal Immigrants taxpayerfunded health care, taking private Health Insurance away from the American People. Thats really why we are here. This whole process is just a distraction. Its an attempt to hide the far left radical agenda. So lets talk about the facts. Schiff support claims it administration froze military aid for your crane without explanation. The facts are President Trump gave more military aid to your crane than president obama. President obama gave your crane well wishes and blankets President Trump gave the ukrainians javelin missiles. Those are the differences and those are the facts. 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 colleagues. House democrats dont care that president zelensky has repeatedly said that there was no pressure. Its not important in the call transcript was the best evidence we have. It is the best evidence we have. Its the actual primary documentary that transcript because there was no quid pro quo, no bribery. Its an old latin phrase that did not pull well and he democrat focus group. My democrats colleagues seem to care about focus groups and polling, but again they dont care about the facts. The fact is the democrats are calling about impeachment before this investigation even began. Representatives tlalib said impeach the mother represented green said that, im concerned if we dont impeach this president , he will get reelected. These proceedings the entire process is nothing more than a political hit job. Unlike my democrat colleagues, i do care about the facts thats why im troubled the committee not to hear from a single fact that witness this entire time. We should be hearing from hunter biden. We should be hearing from schiffs staff. We know that schiff is a staff
quoted with the whistleblower. Again, we need to hear from the whistleblower print last week, i offered a motion to subpoena the whistleblower to testify in executive session, meaning he or she can testify Behind Closed Doors but my democrat colleagues voted my motion down in a partisan fashion. Mr. Castor, can you walk us through the inaccuracies in the whistleblowers complaint . The first thing about the complaint that troubles us is clearly from an outsider who received information secondhand. The information presented in the complaint is clearly distorted. Its from a person who seems to be making a case, like an a