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Hearing this thing that, oh, he's really talking about corruption. well, no, the department of defense had said it was okay to release the aid here because they had already certified that corruption wasn't an issue. the people on the ground, the ambassadors, the national security professionals who had been appointed by this president said, no, that is not an excuse. we then hear that omb officials, office of management and budget officials are saying, whoa, who's holding up the aid? we don't have a problem with the aid. oh, it's the president. the president is holding up the aid. then we hear ...

For political gain like that. but i would finish with this. ambassador taylor, when he came and testified under oath, he said during our call on september 8th, ambassador sondland tried to explain that president trump is a businessman. when a businessman is about to sign the check to someone who owes him something, he asks that person to pay up before signing. i argued, he said, that made no sense, ukrainians did not owe president trump anything. that's true. they owed him nothing to get the white house meeting. they owed him nothing to get their aid. they owed nothing to him for his assistanc...

Silver betrayed jesus. for 30 positive tweets for easy re-election, the other side is willing to betray the american people, their precious right to vote and the future of our great country. and with that i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back. for our purposes mr. gohmert receives recognition. >> i am really intrigued. first we are told that the offense is withholding aid even though it was provided, and, in fact, provided tremendously more helpful in both substance and in amount than the prior administration that just let people die over there. but i thought the acknowledgment had been t...

In a debate and have a fair discussion substantively though. president trump did nothing wrong. as we have sat here today, each and every action of the president has been explained. we have offered the basis, the understanding, we have gained an appreciation for why the president would have reasonable concern about ukraine. why a president would have specific concern about this biden/burisma nexus. you haven't heard any defense from them. you haven't heard them say this is bogus. because we have put into the record, we have cited in the record the testimony of people like george kent who said ...

Now my colleagues have also said that the president knew that president zelensky was an anti-corruption fighter. but they just wanted to see if maybe he was really going to follow through. so they're saying that the person before this president, before president zelensky, the previous president of ukraine, was a corrupt individual. they have said that through their remarks. well, if that president was corrupt, why if president trump cared so much about corruption, why did he release the aid in 2017 and 2018 to ukraine? now, then i'd like to get to the question of this particular amendment. i l...