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Always for his remarks. i want to -- i'll be brief this evening. it's been a long day, and i said most of what i wanted to say earlier in the day. but i did want to end this evening and first of all thank you both for your testimony and your long service to the country. we're grateful that you answered the lawful process of a congressional subpoena. i wanted to share a few reflections on two words that have come up a lot in the course of these hearings. and those words are corruption and anti-corruption. we are supposed to believe, i imagine, listening to my colleagues that donald trump is a g...

Anti-corruption -- of course not. of course not. are we willing to believe that was his priority? no. what does he ask? i want you to do us a favor. investigate this crazy 2016 server conspiracy that the server's somewhere in ukraine. and more ominously investigate the bidens. that's not anti-corruption. that is corruption. and the next day when he's on the phone to ambassador sondland in that outdoor restaurant in kiev, what does he want to know about? does he want to know how zelensky is going to fight corruption? of course not. the only thing he brings up in that call is the investigation h...

Words and let's look at his deeds. ambassador yovanovitch was an anti-corruption champion. no one has contradicted that that has come forward to testify here. she was a champion. and on the day she is at a meeting acknowledging in ukraine another anti-corruption champion, a woman who had acid thrown in her face and died a painful death after months, she is called back to washington because of a vicious smear campaign by the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani, among others. she's recalled that is not anti-corruption. that is corruption. and one of the people responsible for this smear campaign i...

Sordid list of those who were involved, is man named ludsenko, smoon who has a poor reputation as self-serving and corrupt. and what do we see about mr. le ludsenko and his predecessor, he praises them. he says they were treated very unfairly. that's not anti-corruption. that's corruption. and when ambassador sondland testified today that there was unquestionably a quid pro quo and everybody knew it conditioning a white house meeting that ukraine desperately wanted to show its friend and foe alike it had the support of

The president of the united states -- when that was conditioned, that official act was conditioned on the receipt of things of value to the president, political investigations, that was not anti-corruption. that was corruption. and when ambassador sondland testified today that he could put two and two together and so can we, that there was also a quid pro quo on the military aid, that that aid was not going to be released unless they did a public statement, ukraine did a public statement of these political investigations, the president wanted, that's not anti-corruption, that is corruption. an...