this. >> this report chronicles a scheme by the president of the united states to coerce an ally, ukraine, that is at war with an adversary, russia, into doing 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. >> "the new york times" calls the report a sweeping indictment of the president's behavior. the report says that knowledge of and participation in the president's scheme was widespread and included the vice president, the secretary of state, the acting chief of staff, the secretary of energy and other senior u.s. officials. chairman schiff saidthali that committee will continue its investigation but needed to present these findings as