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Investigation? >> i would say a couple things. first of all, as i mentioned, we continued to investigate whether this scheme began earlier than expected, whether it involved the last president of ukraine. but look, we have provided overwhelming evidence in this report of a scheme to pressure the current president of ukraine to conduct these political investigations. will it move others if we're able to show that this was not the first time, this was the second time? i think what we have produced in remarkable short order is so overwhelming that it ought to be presented to the judiciary committ...

Reserve judgment but as you can tell, i am gravely concerned that if we merely accept this, that we invite not only further corruption of our elections by this president but we also invite it of the next president. so i am keenly aware of the significance of the precedent we set in whatever direction we move, and i'm also very strongly guided by the fact that one of the seminal moments in this scheme took place the day after bob mueller testified, the day after donald trump thought that the last investigation was over he began the next significant step in a new course of misconduct. >> will th...

Election and used the power of his office, the power to convene a meeting in the oval office, the power to provide or withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to an ally at war to get his political dirty work done. the only question is how much more, how more extensive was the scheme, how many others were involved, what was the full knowledge and participation of other parties, and while we intend to get the answers to those questions and let the american people know the full facts, we do not intent to delay when the integrity of the next election is still at risk. >> your report mentio...

That is a conspiracy theory put out, promulgated by vladimir putin to deflect attention away from russia's interference in our own election and to try to drive a wedge between the united states and the nation of ukraine. so that's what the president wanted, these two sham investigations, one into joe biden, also debunked and discredit discredited, that sham investigative theory, but also into this idea that ukraine interfered in our election, not russia. and he was willing to sacrifice the national security of the united states by withholding military aid and diplomatic recognition in the form...

Many things including bribery, corrupting our electoral process, extorting a foreign country using federally appropriated dollars. there's a lot that could go into that. the question is whether you break out into a separate article, bribery, separate from that broader abuse of power. then you have contempt, obstruction of congress and that is where many things could also go into because so much has been obstructed under this administration, many different investigations, including ukraine, including russia. the biggest question and the biggest unknown and the most shaky is that obstruction of ...