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The committee will reconvene. When we recessed we were about to hear from mr. Castor. Mr. Castor, youre recognized for 45 minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for having me back, giving me the opportunity to testify about the evidence gathered during our impeachment inquiry. At the outset let me say the evidence does not support the allegations that my democrat colleagues have made. And i dont believe the evidence leads to the conclusions they suggest. Im hopeful to add some important perspective and context to the facts under discussion today. The chief allegation that the impeachment ...

Not enjoyed, and opportunity that they had not enjoyed, and no doubt, on some level, youre grateful and its created a since of pain you. Is that fair to say . Very fair. Why then, sir, with your courage to come before us does that same standard not apply to mr. Mulvaney, mr. Duffy, mr. Pompeo, mr. Bolton, mr. Volt, mr. Giuliani, why wouldnt those same sentiments be within their hearts to do their patriotic duty and do what you have done, sirteed, whdoesne standard apply to the president of the United States . I wish i could answer. Suspect you cant because there is no good answer. But i do app...

He has been questioned by both republicans and democrats of course what makes his testimony particularly interesting is his relationship to President Trump he has been known he was a trump lets call a point that he is very well known as a trump ally and a trump supporter and he has been questioned on that and that in some ways makes his testimony quite difficult to dismiss that republicans have picked up on contradictions in some of his remarks and revisions to his testimony of course he made an early test mean and then issued a statement to a man and then or is that there have been contradict...

To move pub lekly an confidently with the importance of issues of the president and the United States, and that is going to hopefully break the logjam, but at this point in time, the issues of importance to the president of the United States were what . That the two investigations. But nothing to do with Vice President biden, right . Again, i didnt make the connection there. I want to pivot briefly to the president s concerns about foreign assistance. Undersecretary hale who will be with us here later today testified that during this relevant time frame, there was a real focus to reexamine all...

Meeting will come to water. We will proceed to the five minute questioning. I want to recognize myself for five minutes. First, i want to clarify something for the record. Wanted to clarify something for the record with respect to witness who testified on saturday, and that is mr. Sandy, he is a career official with the office of management and budget, and he is today reviewing his transcript, an opportunity that we give all of the witnesses before their transcript is released to make sure that it is accurate and correct. As his deposition was only taken on saturday, and this the soonest that ...