'I believe the President broke the law in extorting the president of another country by withholding the military aid,' says Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, reacting to newly released transcripts from the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Ukrainian officials expressed concerns about aid hold "very early on," State Department official saidCatherine Croft, former Ukraine specialist at the National Security Council, leaves the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at the US Capitol on Oct. 30 in Washington, DC. Samuel Corum/Getty Images
The Ukrainian officials quietly reached out to Croft, she said, after one of the July meetings in which the hold on military assistance was discussed, prior to news of the hold appearing in the media on Aug. 28. “I remember telling them that I was confident that any issues in process would get resolved. And I knew from my understanding of having worked with these individuals for a long time that they had no interest in this information getting out into the public,” she added.
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