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Happened in 2016. >> and last i want to ask you about the aid to lebanon that was withheld by the administration and then lifted. you recently got back from a trip there. have you gotten any answers to why it was held up in the first place? obviously there's more attention being paid to this sort of thing. >> yeah, so i think it's really important that, you know, we get to the bottom of why the trump administration was quietly and mysteriously holding up security aid to lebanon. it's very similar to ukraine. lebanon is at a very perilous moment right now. the military badly needed the aid, and...

Interference in the 2016 u.s. elections. >> one more video clip related to the president's decision to withhold security assistance that congress had appropriated to ukraine and exchange for announcement of public investigation of his political rival. >> in the absence of any credible explanation for this suspension of aid, i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 elections and burisma as mr. giuliani had demanded. >> professor karlan, does that evidence and the evide...

The president that. >> let me show you one more clip related to the president's decision to withhold security assistance that congressed that appropriated to ukraine in exchange for announcement of public investigation of this political rival. >> in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of if 2016 elections and burisma as rudy guliani demanded. >> is that evidence and the evidence in the record tend to show tha...

Investigations of burisma, an alleged ukrainian interference in the u.s. 2016 elections. >> and i'll show you one more video clip relating to the president's decision to withhold security assistance that congress had appropriated to ukraine in exchange for announcement of public investigation of his political rival. >> in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 elections and burisma as mr. giuliani ha...

Otherwise, we're at a stalemate. that is way worse than "i want nothing, i want nothing," and appears that's really how this went down. >> mm-hmm. aaron, there may not have been a call on september 9th, but according to the testimony from tim morrison and bill taylor, as elie just said on september 7th, there was a call with a different tone. explain why that call is so significant. >> well, just what elie had said, and also this is coming now in that time frame of just a few days after september 1st when gordon sondland had already corrected his testimony once and said that he wasn't in warsa...