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A country had satisfied those requirements around corruption and the department of defense released that report. nowhere between the time that donald trump withheld aid and the time that he released that aid was there an additional assessment required or done. in fact, the department of defense decided they didn't need to do another assessment because they had already done the assessment. so at the end of the day i have only two questions for my colleagues on the other side and these are the two questions. forget about president trump. forget about president trump. will any one of my colleague...

Allowed the invasion by turkey intoen areas that the u.s. had a foot hold in with our kurdish allies. >> also, congress voted for that aid. the president held it up. >> the only reason he released it -- >> there was a new election and they got a clean bill of health. that was the time line of actually what happened. >> the key thing is that you called it policy. which it was. you can disagree with it, say it was wrong. ambassador taylor agreed wit and thought it was wrong. it was not extortion. it was not bribery, it was something else, it was policy. >> this is about did the president conditi...

Of what you're taking on? >> i wouldn't even say he was in charge of something. i mean, john kerry made this point to the ukrainians. the president of the united states, barack obama, was in charge of this policy. >> but they made biden the point person. >> a point person. >> how many point people can you have? >> we had our ambassador, the secretary of state. we had every single official working on ukraine -- >> joe biden brags he's the one that held the money over their head and that's why he did it. >> we did and it was successful. it was the right policy because we did condition aid, absol...

Charge of this policy. >> but they made biden the point person. >> a point person. >> how many point people can you have? >> we had our ambassador, the secretary of state. we had every single official working on ukraine -- >> joe biden brags he's the one that held the money over their head and that's why he did it. >> we did and it was successful. it was the right policy because we did condition aid, absolutely, on ukraine actually doing something about corruption because we wanted to make sure that our money that we were helping them with loans and loan guarantees wasn't being stolen. >> did ...