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On the recordJanuary 29, 2020
Thank you. I send a question to the desk on behalf of Senator Patty Murray and myself. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Senators Harris and Murray ask the House managers: The House of Representatives is now in possession of a tape of President Trump saying of Ambassador Maria Yovanovitch, ``Get rid of her! Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it.'' President Trump gave this order to Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two men who carried out Trump's pressure campaign in Ukraine at the direction of Rudy Giuliani. Does the discovery of this tape suggest that if the Senate does not pursue all relevant evidence--including witnesses and documents--that new evidence will continue to come to light after the Senate renders a verdict? Mr. Manager SCHIFF. The answer is yes. What we have seen, really, over the last several weeks, since the passage of the articles in the House of Representatives, is that every week--indeed, sometimes every day--there is new information coming to light. We know there is going to be new information coming to light on March 17, when the Bolton book comes out; that is, if the NSC isn't successful in redacting it or preventing much of its publication. On that issue, I do want to mention one other thing in response to the question about the Bolton manuscript and what the White House lawyers knew. I listened very carefully to the answer to that question, and maybe you listened more carefully than I did.…
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Andy Harris
Republican · Maryland

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