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Call. Lets go to jim acosta for that. Now, take a look. Heres the key sentence from the what are you learning . Rough call transcript reporter anderson, its a immediately after ukraines picture of chaos as the president zelensky asked about president heads into this very different phase for him in the the military assistance his impeachment inquiry, very public country has yet to see, the phase with officials testifying in front of the cameras up on president says right away i capitol hill. Anderson, my colleagues and i would like you to do us a favor, are over here at the white house are hearing from our sources that when Mick Mulvaney the though clearly connecting the acting chief of staff started favor to the aid. These legal maneuverings a few he then asked about the bidens, days ago, first he was going to investigating them. Join this lawsuit in federal court that would determine whether or not he should respond to these congr ....
The current u. S. Ambassador to the european union, Gordon Sondland is among them. Hes scheduled to testify on wednesday. At least one witness said under oath that sondland personally spoke to the president several times about how willing the Ukrainian Government was to do whatever was asked of them. Lets discuss with Jennifer Roger rogers. This latest trump tweet going after Jennifer Williams who already testified behind closed doors, her transcript was released this weekend, shes set to testify publicly on tuesday, is that witness tach mpering . I dont think so. Hes disparaging them but witness tampering and intimidation has to actually be that, intending to intimidate them, dissuade them from coming. Hes not saying, dont come, youll lose your job. It is ....
Tried to extort ukraines president for political gain, there is a lot in the talking points which are just not true. So lets look at talking point number one for republicans to use when discussing ukraine affair. The rough summary of the july 25th phone call shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure. This is not what the president has been saying. That call was a great call. It was a perfect call. A perfect call. So republicans will be saying, yeah, maybe not perfect but there was no pressure in the call. Take a look. Here is the key sentence from the rough call transcript after president zelensky asked about the military assistance his country has yet to see, the president said right away, i would like to you do us a favor though. Clearly connecting the favor to the aid. He then asked for investigations into the 2016 election and then the other thing, the bidens investigating them. And no talking corruption or list of ukrainians that the president thinks should be investigating ....