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On the recordSeptember 19, 2019
I used the word 'extortion' deliberately, Anderson, because you accurately recall, inexplicably, President Trump decided to suspend almost a quarter of a billion dollars of foreign military aid to Ukraine.

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Connolly discusses Trump's suspension of military aid to Ukraine and describes it as extortion.

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