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Russian force. 200,000 russian soldiers in the country and yet you see no weakness there and no sign they will surrender. president zelensky has surprised everyone, including me, with his extraordinary leadership abilities at this very difficult time. as for poland, it says it is willing to send fighter jets. to ukraine. that getting in there is no easy matter. also the polish officials i'm told are still negotiating with the americans over whether or not we would replace these fighter jets if and when they are shot down by the russians. so there are negotiations taking place in that accounts ...

His defenders here have tried to excuse his misconduct by pointing to statements from the ukraine president that he was not under pressure to give into president trump's demand. did your investigative committees consider those statements by president zelensky? >> we did. and we found that the statements of of what is effectively a extortion victim are not particularly relevant to the actual truth of the matter. because president zelensky cannot in reality for the same reasons that he's interpreted the request to be a demand, he can't go out and say that he did feel pressure because that would ...

President zelensky and he disregards all the talking points prepared for him on corruption by the national security council. second, investigations of the bidens and he debunked a conspiracy theory about the 2016 election were not supported by official u.s. policy. and third, congress authorized military aid to ukraine. ukraine passed all the checks that the united states established to ensure that it was taking appropriate actions to fight corruption and there was unanimous consent amongst the state department, national defense, national security council that the president should release the ...

Smith correct. ambassador sondland said that president trump himself brought up the words quid pro quo? >> that's right. ambassador sondland also said that too. >> mr. goldman, what did the committee make of this fact? >> it was quite odd the president would volunteer in response to nothing about a quid pro quo that there was no. quid pro quo. what was more important immediately after that was which is effectively conduct that amounts to the quid pro quo. there is no quid pro quo but you have to go to the microphone to make the announcement. >> what did the committee make about the fact that a...

Quote, abundantly clear to them that if they wanted the aid, and i quote that they were going to have to make these statements. mr. goldman, beginning on and around the tent 25th of july call through december, would you agree that consistent with the testimony be revealed, ukraine was made aware that to receive our military aid and white house visit, they would have to make a statement announcing the investigations? >> not only where they made aware, they were made aware either by president trump's proxy rudy giuliani or from president trump himself through ambassador sondland who spoke to pre...