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insult insulted as you did today essentially blaming you for somalia. as if this is another step by the president to intimidate witnesses. he didn t intimidate you. you re here. you ve endured. but there are other people out there that can expect the trump treatment if they come forward. that s a question for us. now, you also indicated that the president has a prerogative to appoint a non-career person and to be candid, republican presidents and democratic presidents have done that. the mr. sondland s transcript is out and he was someone who indicated that everything hinged, this the white house meeting and the release of the vital defensive aid. everything hinged on the president, president zelensky, being willing to do that investigation that would benefit the trump campaign. you re aware of that? yes. and you ve indicated that s something that you would not agree to do. yes. and sondland was quite willing to do. apparently, so. i thank you for your professi ....
Aware that anybody in this party perjured themselves? no, i don t. i yield my testimony. i thank the gentleman. i want to make one thing clear for folks watching today. bribery doesn t involve a quid pro quo, bribery involves the conditioning of a specific act for something of value. an official act may be a white house meeting. an official act may be 400 million in military aid, and something of value to a president might include investigations of their political rival. the reason we don t ask witnesses, who are fact witnesses, to make a judgment about whether a crime or bribery has been committed, or more siskly, another way to raise ....
Over and over again. it s not fair. reporter: they re going to [ inaudible ]. do you think it s a fair process for the witness? the second sentence of that tweet, for example. one example. adam schiff never brought this up. second sentence of the tweet goes back to the july 25th call transcript. in that president slnzelensky i saying to president trump he s concerned that ambassador yovanovitch is a bad ambassador and president zelensky believed that ambassador yovanovitch had a loyalty to president poroshenko. now, adam schiff when posing the question to ambassador yovanovitch to respond to the tweet never mentioned that. this is what adam schiff does. acting director of national intelligence in front of the committee, his opening statement, he made up a fictitious call transcript of july 25th. because the real one doesn t have the bribery that he wants to allege. just like that make-belief what he called parody, instead created a parody versus of the ....
But what you are is what holds this country together, what holds our foreign policy together what makes it seamless, what makes it work. and i m glad america gets to see that. i will just emphasize once again about the importance of your testimony. mr. kent and ambassador taylor gave us the broad outlines of this story. this is a story about an effort to coerce, condition or bribe a foreign country into doing the dirty work of the president. investigations of his political rival. by conditioning u.s. taxpayer money, by conditioning a meeting that president zelensky desperately wanted and needed to establish that relationship with the most powerful patron of ukraine, the united states of america. the fact that they failed in this solicitation of bribery ....
Not a very good defense. i put to you with the historical context, here s the remarks from congressman schiff today as we heard republicans say the entire plot didn t get pulled off. take a look. the fact that they failed in this solicitation of bribery doesn t make it any less bribery, doesn t make it any less immoral or corrupt. it just means it was unsuccessful. john. the test of the nixon impeachment was not the efficacy of either the break in or the cover up, both of which were disasters because here we are talking about them. i remember hearing clifton wh e white, an old barry goldwater strategy say in the 1980s was one of the more insane things about watergate, if you have to break into the party chairman s office you should already know what they re saying in the party ....