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26. what did that come to mean? my understanding, ambassador sondland s use of that term was the three people in charge of ukraine policy during the summer where he, gordon sondland, ambassador volker and secretary perry. what did you come to, when did you come to learn about mr. giuliani s role and what do you consider his role to have been? i first heard about former mayor giuliani s interest in ukraine in january of this year, that was a different phase than what happened during the summertime. was it normal to have a person who is a privat citizen take an active role in foreign diplomacy? i did not find his particular engagement normal, no. now, ambassador taylor, you testified that there are two channels, a regular and irregular. what did you see as rudy giuliani s role in ukraine policy? congresswoman, i came to see that mr. giuliani had a large influence on the irregular channel. and was that normal? is that normal to have a private citizen of the unit ....
other important things that are going undone. within this committee s own jurisdiction we should address the opioid epidemic and could be working together to find solutions to the challenges on our southern border. protecting americans from jobs stolen by chinese companies and enhancing election security to name a few things. congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, providing additional tax relief to the nation s middle class families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. instead here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. what a waste. the american people deserve so much better. i yield back. gentleman yields back. thank you, mr. chair. i take no pleasure in the fatha we re here today. as a patriot who loves america, it pain meese ths me the circum force us to undertake this solemn obligation. nonetheless on the public evidence it appears president trump pressured a foreign governmen ....
July 25th transcript does president trump ever suggest that he intends to withhold military aid for any reason? he doesn t. and that s the reason we keep on hearing the word circumstantial and inferential and that s what s so concerning. those would be appropriate terms. it s not that you can t have a circumstantial case, those are appropriate terms if these are unknowable facts. the problem is you have so many witnesses not subpoenaed, witnesses we ve not heard from. right. so if it s not in the transcript it s got to come from witness tem and i assume you ve reviewed all the witness testimony so you know no witness testified they either heard president trump or were told by president trump to withhold military aid for any reason. correct? krects. correct. so let me turn to the issue of obstruction of justice quickly. i think you assumed and did i ....
Investigation to build capacity and track down stolen eight. correct. launched in may 2014 by the attorney general of the u.s. and uk in conjunction with the world bank. and, in fact, by 2016 you were so concerned about corruption questions related to barisma that when in was an effort by barisma to sponsor an essay contest with u.s. aid you asked usaid to stop it? krects. testified because barisma had a poor reputation in the business and that you didn t think it was appropriate for the u.s. government to be co-sponsoring something with a company that had a bad reputation. correct? correct. you are also aware and you testified today that hunter biden served on the board of barisma? correct. and you also testified that you were indeed concerned about the appearance of conflict of interests? that s correct. and broadly, this is very important, you testified in your deposition that when the state ....
this is cnn newsroom. let s get straight to the news. just three days until the florida primary and the top two tornados are t candidate s trying to reach as many as they can. supporters of each candidate launched tv ads attacking s other the integrity. meanwhile, mitt romney is attacking president obama s foreign policy record. i think he has a view that america is in decline and that the best course for america is to appease and accommodate the worst actors in the world. i m not referring to him. you know, john. i m talking about people like ahmadinejad and castro and chavez and kim jong-un and all the other people who threaten the world, and so he opens the hat to them. wrote a little note to ahmadinejad the other week. can we get together for a meeting? the foreign policy of pretty please is not working terribly well. ron paul left florida and is focusing on the upcoming maine caucuses while rick santorum is back in his home state of pennsylvania. the arab ....