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On the recordJanuary 29, 2020
I don't think we could have imagined a circumstance where a President of the United States would have told a foreign leader that the U.S. Ambassador, our anti-corruption champion in Ukraine, was 'going to go through some things.'
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California

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Schiff discusses the unprecedented behavior of the President regarding whistleblowers and the implications for accountability.

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