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President and to the white house that this was going to become public, this scheme was going to become public, only then did the president of the united states release the military aid. as for that white house meeting that ukraine so desperately sought, that has still not happened to this day. now, what does this mean for americans? why should they care about what the president did vis-a-vis ukraine? why should they care indeed about ukraine? first of all, this is not about ukraine. this is about our democracy. this is about our national security. this is about whether the american people have...

Thank the incredible members of all three committees, as well as our amazing staff that did long hours of work through depositions, open hearings and compiling all of the evidence into today's report. it was an enormous task and i want to begin by acknowledging the great work of the great and late colleague of mine, elijah cummings. we continued to be inspired by his legacy and guided by thoughts of his integrity and the great moral clarity that he always showed in his work. i also want to thank my colleagues, chairman engle, chairwoman maloney for their tremendous work as well. this report ch...

Responsible judgment about whether we think that's compatible with the office of the presidency. >> chairman, do the phone records cast doubt on anything you've heard from the witnesses or anything the president has said publicly? >> no, they don't. at least that i can identify at this moment. i think the phone records are remarkably consistent with the coordination of a lot of this scheme. now, we obviously don't have complete phone records and some of the phone records are deeply suggestive of who the parties were talking to, particularly in the white house or the office of management or bud...

Evidence or indeed whether we obtained communications from one or multiple parties, but certainly the phone records show that there was considerable coordination among the parties including the white house, coordination in the smear campaign against ambassador yovanovitch which cleared the way for the three amigos to take over a significant part of ukraine policy, coordination in the execution of that policy, and that this was indeed a continuum that began even prior to the recall of the ambassador. now, your question gets to a very important point which is there is more investigative work to ...

Zelensky's pre predecessor. now, if some sort of evidentiary bombshell falls into the house judiciary committee, schiff has said previously that they would provide that information by way of a supplemental report to the judiciary committee. the other thing that is an interesting takeaway here is that this report really provides the backbone for at least two articles of impeachment, one being abuse of power connected to the alleged bribery plot extortion scheme. the other of course is obstruction or contempt of congress. you heard chairman schiff say here today that every department to which th...