https://www.c-span.org/video/?468322-1/senate-impeachment-trial-day-3&start=29092
SO, WE HAVE ABOUT 20 MINUTES LEFT IN THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT. I'D LIKE TO NOW GO THROUGH WITH YOU THE PRESIDENT'S EFFORTS TO HIDE THIS CORRUPT SCHEME EVEN AS IT CONTINUED WELL INTO THE FALL OF LAST YEAR. ON AUGUST 12, THE WHISTLEBLOWER IN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES GET A COMPLAINT ADDRESSED TO THE CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES. THIS EXPLOSIVE DOCUMENT STATED THE PRESIDENT TRUMP SOLICITED FOREIGN INTERFERENCE FROM UKRAINE TO ASSIST IN HIS 2020 REELECTION BID. THE COMPLAINT ALLEGED A SCHEME BY PRESIDENT TRUMP TO, QUOTE, USE THE POWER OF HIS OFFICE TO SOLICIT INTERFERENCE FROM A FOREIGN COUNTRY IN THE 2020 U.S. ELECTION. THE COMPLAINT STATED THE PRESIDENT HAD APPLIED PRESSURE ON UKRAINE TO INVESTIGATE ONE OF THE PRESIDENT'S MAIN DOMESTIC POLITICAL RIVALS AND DETAILS OF THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT'S PERSONAL LAWYER, RUDY GIULIANI. THE COMPLAINT ALSO STATED THE WHISTLEBLOWER BELIEVED THE PRESIDENT'S ACTIVITIES, QUOTE, POST RISK TO U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY AND UNDERMINED THE U.S. GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO DETER AND COUNTER FOREIGN THREATS IN THE U.S. ELECTION. UNDER THE LAW, THE WHISTLEBLOWER WAS REQUIRED TO FILE A COMPLAINT THE COMPLAINT WITH THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE WHICH WAS THEN REQUIRED TO BACK AND ASSESS THE COMPLAINT AND DETERMINE IF IT'S WARRANTED REPORTING TO THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES. THE LAW GIVES THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 14 DAYS TO CONDUCT AN INITIAL REVIEW AND THEN INFORM THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ABOUT HIS FINDINGS. ON AUGUST 26, THE INSPECTOR GENERAL SINCE THE WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT INTO THE INSPECTOR GENERAL'S PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION TO THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. THE INSPECTOR GENERAL WROTE A SONG FOR REVIEW, HIS REVIEW OF THE COMPLAINT, IT'S OBLIGATIONS CONSTITUTED AN URGENT CONCERN AND APPEAR CREDIBLE UNDER THE STATUTE. THE INSPECTOR GENERAL CONFIRMED THE WHISTLEBLOWER ACTED LAWFULLY BRINGING THE COMPLAINT AND CREDIBLY RAISED A LEGITIMATE CONCERN THAT SHOULD BE COMMUNICATED TO THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS. THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE QUICKLY INFORMED THE WHITE HOUSE ABOUT THE COMPLAINT. UNDER THE LAW, THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE WAS REQUIRED TO FORWARD THE COMPLAINT AND THE INSPECTOR GENERAL'S DETERMINATION TO THE CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES NO LATER THAN SEVEN DAYS AFTER HE RECEIVED IT. THE LEGAL REQUIREMENT IS EXTREMELY CLEAR. UPON RECEIPT OF THE TRANSMITTAL FROM THE ICY IG, THAT IS THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE TO THE DIRECTOR SHALL WITHIN SEVEN CALENDAR DAYS FOR TRACY FOR TRANSMITTAL TO THE CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES TOGETHER WITH ANY COMMENTS THE DIRECTOR CONSIDERS APPROPRIATE. YET, DESPITE THE CLEAR LETTER OF THE LAW, THE WHITE HOUSE MOBILIZED TO KEEP THE INFORMATION IN THE WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT FROM CONGRESS INCLUDING INVITING THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO RENDER AN OPINION AS TO WHETHER THE COMPLAINT COULD BE WITHHELD FROM CONGRESS. THE STATUTORY DEADLINE OF SEPTEMBER 2 WHEN THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONALDIRECTOR OFNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE WAS REQUIRED TO TURN OVER TO CONGRESS CAME AND WENT INTO THE COMPLAINT REMAINED HIDDEN FROM CONGRESS. FINALLY ON SEPTEMBER 9, A FULL WEEK AFTER THE COMPLAINT WAS REQUIRED TO BE SENT TO CONGRESS, AND ONCE AGAIN COME IN URGENT CONCERN YOU INSPECTOR GENERAL ONE WEEK AFTER HE WAS REQUIRED TO BE SENT TO CONGRESS THE INSPECTOR GENERAL WROTE TO THE LEADERS OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES TO INFORM THEM THAT THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE WAS WITHHOLDING A WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT IN DIRECT CONTRAVENTION OF PAST PRACTICE AND THE LAW. SEPTEMBER 24, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI ANNOUNCED THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS MOVING FORWARD WITH AN OFFICIAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY. THE NEXT DAY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSED A RESOLUTION CALLING ON THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE THE WHISTLEBLOWER'S COMPLAINT IMMEDIATELY TO THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES. LATER THAT DAY, THE WHITE HOUSE PUBLICLY RELEASED SUMMARY OF THE JULY 25 CALL BETWEEN PRESIDENT TRUMP AND PRESIDENT ZELENSKY AND PERMITTED THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TO PROVIDE THE WHISTLEBLOWER'S COMPLAINT AND RELATED DOCUMENTS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES. THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF WAS HAPPY TO DISCUSS THE MOTIVATIONS FOR THIS IN PUBLIC. THAT DAY IN A JOINT PRESS AVAILABILITYWITH PRESIDENT ZELENSKY AT THE ASSEMBLY, PRESIDENT TRUMP REITERATED THAT HE WANTED UKRAINE TO INVESTIGATE THE BIDEN'S. [INAUDIBLE] I WANT HIM TO DO WHATEVER HE CAN. THIS WAS HIS CALL. HE WASN'T THERE. WHATEVER HE CAN DO IN TERMS OF CORRUPTION, BECAUSE THE CORRUPTION IS MASSIVE. NOW,, WHEN BIDEN'S SON WALKS AWAY WITH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM UKRAINE AND KNOWS NOTHING, THAT IS CORRUPTION.
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