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neither of those official acts got the president what he want wanted, help in his reelection campaign he turned to another official act to turn up the pressure even more withholding nearly $400 million of vital military assistance to ukraine in exchange for the investigation. withholding military assistance to ukraine may be an original abuse of power, soliciting foreign interference in our election that much worse but it was also in and of itself and abuse of power and not only th that, it violated the law, it was illegal. the government accountability office a nonpartisan independent agency concluded that president trump hold on the security assistance clearly violated the control act, a lot that congress enacted to curb president nixon s own abuse of power. president trump may not like it but once a law is passed, the president cannot change that law without coming back to us, the congress. president trump did not just break the law but jeopardized our national secur ....
but it wasn t just the frequency of mr. giuliani s contacts that were significant. here s what mattered. president trump direct did u.s. officials to work with his personal agent who was pursuing investigations not at all related to foreign-policy. u.s. officials including the president on national security adviser new there was no getting around rudy giuliani when he came to ukraine. witnesses repeatedly testified to the constant presence of rudy giuliani on television and in the newspaper. a state department official christopher anderson said that john bolton quote joked about every time ukraine is mentioned giuliani pops up. after ambassador yovanovitch s dismissal ambassador bolton told dr. hill there rudy giuliani was a quote hand grenade that s going to blow everybody up. dr. hill testified that ambassador bolton issued guidance for the national security council staff did not engage with rudy giuliani. why? because mr. giuliani was not conducting official u.s. for ....
to be issued to by this section. section. the amendment is arguable by the party by two hours. mr. schiff are you a proponent or an opponent thank you. and mr. cipollone? all right. mr. schiff and you have time for rebuttal. chief justice roberts, senators, counsel for the white house, i am val deming from the state of florida. the house manager strongly supports the amendment to issue subpoena for documents to the state department. as we explain, the first article of impeachment charges the president with using the power of his office to solicit and pressure ukraine to announce investigations that everyone in this chamber knows to be the president didn t care if the action was conducted, just that it was announced, why? because this was for his own personal and political benefit. the first article further charges that the president did so with corrupt motives and that his use of power for personal gain harmed the national security of the united states. as a sec ....
but that is exactly what some are contemplating here today. this amendment would address that fundamental flaw, it would ensure the trial includes testimony from a key witness, the president s acting chief of staff and head of the office of management and budget. mc mulvaney. it would show the senate would consider his testimony immediately. let s discuss why the need to hear from mick mulvaney is so critical. leader mcconnell as resolution undercuts more than 200 years of senate impeachment trial practice. it departs from every impeachment trial conducted to date and goes against the senate s long-standing impeachment rules which contemplate the possibility of new witness testimony. in fact, it departs from any criminal or civil trial procedure in america. why should this president be held to a different standard? the proposed amendment for witness testimony is necessary in light of the president s determined effort to bury the evidence and cover up his corrupt abuse o ....
a russian attack on ukraine s strategic port city of odesa. the council in ukraine s third biggest city said two missiles were shot down by ukrainian forces, but that others hit a military facility and residential buildings. has led to reports that several people have been killed. this video shows the aftermath of a strike on a residential building. in an online post, zelensky s chief of staff andriy yermak says at least five people were killed and 18injured in the missile strike. in the city of mariupol, russian forces appear to be trying to storm the azovstal steel works, where ukraine s remaining forces in the city are holding out. russians are said to have resumed air strikes on the plant in the south east of the country.from ukraine, danjohnson sent this report. more ukrainian homes are coming underfire. shelling s intensified in kharkiv than across the east of the country, but intelligence assessments say the russians aren t gaining much ground. still, the ukraini ....