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On the recordDecember 16, 2019
This was an arrangement where the President conditioned all of this foreign assistance that we had sent, $200 million to the Department of Defense, $191 million to the Department of State, to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia, and the President said--but what he was holding out for was the interference of the Ukrainian President in our election to harm his political opponent.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Raskin discusses Trump's conditioning of aid on political interference.

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