That transcript is a smoking gun that points to a President having used his office and his responsibilities as commander in chief in dealing with military aid, having used that as leverage to try to get the president of the Ukraine to investigate a political opponent.
Panetta describes the released transcript as evidence of the President's misuse of power.
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The facts have to be presented to the American people, and it's the American people who will judge what is right or wrong.
It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.
He's in business with China as you mentioned, half of the Teslas that are made are made in China. His fate depends a great deal on what happens with China and his ability to gain access to that kind of information is the kind of thing that…
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