the president's political dirty work. it involves a scheme in which donald trump withheld official acts, a white house meeting, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military assistance in order to compel that power to deliver two investigations that he believed would assist his re-election campaign. i want to underscore first of all just how important that white house meeting was to ukraine. ukraine has a new reformer as its president, president zelensky. a meeting with the most important patron of ukraine, the president of the united states in the oval office, carries enormous significance both to the people of ukraine but as equally important to russia, that the united states has ukraine's back in its conflict with a nation which invaded its territory. the military assistance is also absolutely essential. as president zelensky goes into