Political Quotes

“Mr. Chief Justice, I have a question on behalf of Senator Baldwin and myself, and I send it to the desk. The CHIEF JUSTICE. The question is addressed to the House managers: Is the White House correct in its trial memorandum and in presentations of its case that ``President Zelensky and other senior Ukrainian officials did not even know that the security assistance had been paused'' before seeing press reports on August 28, 2019, which was more than a month after the July 25 phone call between Presidents Zelensky and Trump? Mr. Manager CROW. Thank you, Chief Justice and Senators, for the question. The answer is no. The evidence does not show that. We know that Defense Department official Laura Cooper testified that her staff received 2 emails from the State Department on July 25 revealing that the Ukrainian Embassy was ``asking about security assistance,'' and, in fact, counsel for the President brought up these emails just now. I would propose that the Senate subpoena those emails and we can all see for ourselves what exactly was happening. We also know that career diplomat Catherine Croft stated that she was ``very surprised at the effectiveness of my Ukrainian counterparts' diplomatic tradecraft, as in to say they found out very early on, or much earlier than I expected them to,'' and that LTC Alex Vindman testified that by mid-August he was getting questions from Ukrainians about the status of security assistance.…”