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Jeff Merkley: “Every piece of evidence from every direction points towards a quid pro quo, and that is that both a meeting with the…”

On the recordJanuary 21, 2020
Every piece of evidence from every direction points towards a quid pro quo, and that is that both a meeting with the president, our President Trump, was held up and aid was held up in exchange for creating pressure for the new president of Ukraine to announce investigations into the Bidens and into the 2016 election to see if Ukraine played any role in that.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley asserts that evidence supports the existence of a quid pro quo involving President Trump.

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