laura cooper: absolutely not. my chain of command was supportive of advocating for removing the hold on the funds. >> of you were not restricted? laura cooper: i faced no restrictions. >> thank you for that. i thought you might be more in touch with the specifics of the accounting process. thank you for being here tonight. i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. hill, when did you find out about the assistance? july 21? david hale: yes. deposition, i misspoke. i confused june 21. after july 18, july 21 is when i heard about the potential hold. >> did you attend the july 26 meeting that occurred? david hale: i did. >> the president directed the hold? david hale: we were told in that meeting that they were objecting to proceeding with the assistance because the president had so directed through the acting chief of staff. >> what was the position on the hold? the state department advocated for proceeding with all of the assistance, consistent with our interest in ukraine. >> you believed in the release of the hold?

cooper? >> a non-what? >> a non-impeachment inquiry question? >> my time is yours. >> what can we do to help the ukrainians defend against russian electronic warfare? what more can we do? >> what i can say in open hearing, there actually is some electronic warfare detection equipment that is included in equipment that is included in the usai package. there's a piece of capability downward already working to provide. i think the specific topic is more suitable for a closed door session. >> that's a good copy. >> thanks for both of your service and chairman i yield back. >> mr. castro. >> thank you chairman and thank you all for your testimony today. i want to make an important distinction. a few my colleagues have rattled off countries where we actually held up aid. there is a big distinction between holding up aid for legitimate policy reason and holding up aid because it's part of a shake down. it is in the service of the president who asked for a political favor of a country to investigate

patrioticll it our duty to cooperate. i this respect, by the way, would like to thank you very .uch for your work of gettingme example artificial intelligence right. we need much more of that and we need much more of that in europe. a stronger transatlantic cooperation. we should stop the fight between europe and america. there is too much at stake. .hat we need is cooperation moree must do much constructively, increase its own investments. the european union should .ncrease funds the european defense fund was established a couple of years ago. it is only around $600 million a year. it is tiny compared to what the chinese invest in this area. gradually, nato allies are investing in defense. in 2014, we decided that within the next decades, all allies will invest at least 2% of gdp in defense. at that time, only three would fit that criteria. by the end of this year, eight countries will do it. to his credit, president trump has done a lot to raise awareness of the 2%. there is another goal that is equally important. namel

aid cooper along with others learned about the freeze during a series of interagency meetings in the last 2 weeks of july at the 1st meeting on july 18th and on the representative relayed that quote the white house chief of staff has conveyed that the president has concerns about ukraine and ukraine security assistance unquote and that a hold had been ordered by the president no explanation was provided all of the agencies responsible for ukraine policy supported security assistance and advocated for lifting of the hold the only dissenting voice was the office of management and budget which was following the orders of president trump and still no good explanation of the hold was provided while the 8 suspension had not been made public word was getting out catherine croft special advisor for ukraine to go she should work closely with ambassador volcker and who testified before this committee at a deposition received 2 separate calls in july or august from officials at the ukrainian embassy who quote approach me quietly and in confidence to ask me about an m.b. hold on ukraine security

cooper? >> a nonwhite? >> a nonimpeachment inquiry question? >> sir, my time is yours. >> what are we doing to help the ukrainians defend against russian warfare? what more can we do to defend? >> what i can say in an open hearing is that there is some electronic warfare detection equipment that is included in the usi package. so there is a piece of capability that we are already working to provide them. i think this specific topic though is more suitable for a closed-door session. >> that is a good copy. thank you for both of your service to this country. and i yield back. >> think you chairman, thank you for your testimony today. i want to make an important distinction, because a few of my colleagues have rattled off countries where we actually held up aid. there is a big distinction between holding up aid for a legitimate policy reason, and holding up aid because it is part of a shakedown. because it is in the service of a president who asked for a political favor of a country to go invest

we should cooperate instead of confronting each other. on the data privacy issue, i would say my advice to american tech companies would be to be at the forefront when it comes to the data protection. you should realize that for historical reasons the protection of personal data is an essential issue in europe. in germany, for obvious reasons, in eastern europe for similar obvious reasons. people are very much concerned about government control and government supervision. i think you should realize how important data privacy is in the european context. so my advice would be, on the one hand, to be at the forefront when it comes to protection of data, personal data. but at the same time at the forefront when it comes to protection of free speech. this strategy of two legs, so, so to speak, i think could make it easier for american tech companies to improve their image in europe. >> i think i've got a question over here. >> thank you. i am a professor at the smith school of business and germany's school. anyway, i'm really glad to hear the

to prohibit cooperation with huawei. i would prefer a common european approach to that. i share the concerns concerning cooperation with huawei. so it's a mixed picture. >> so avril, i'll tackle you with this one. how do we have a dialog around this? you've got the military infusion in china. i think it was general shanahan referred to may even be potentially a canary in a coal mine and being of concern. how do we have a conversation both within the united states and outside of the united states and this concept of norms ap values, and what that would mean to the long-term way of life that we've become so accustomed to in the free world? how does that conversation go on? and who leads it? >> i think, you know, at least from my perspective, i mean, anders said it as well, people look to the united states for leadership on these issues and i think it'sit is to our advantage to have this conversation and it's to our advantage to lead this conversation. and so you know, i think the first step of it in the norms and values sp

to prohibit cooperation with huawei. i would prefer a common european approach to that. i share the concerns concerning cooperation with huawei. so it's a mixed picture. >> so avril, i'll tackle you with this one. how do we have a dialog around this? you've got the military infusion in china. i think it was general shanahan referred to may even be potentially a canary in a coal mine and being of concern. how do we have a conversation both within the united states and outside of the united states and this concept of norms ap values, and what that would mean to the long-term way of life that we've become so accustomed to in the free world? how does that conversation go on? and who leads it? >> i think, you know, at least from my perspective, i mean, anders said it as well, people look to the united states for leadership on these issues and i think it's-- it is to our advantage to have this conversation and it's to our advantage to lead this conversation. and so you know, i think the first step of it in the norms and values

sharing of the burden of that cooperation. other countries should not be benefiting unduly on the back of the united states and its taxpayers. on the other hand, there is this wool is being pulled over our eyes as to the way these institutions operate and the things that get trotted out our things like venezuela being on the u.n. human rights council or any other number of countries with dubious human rights records. things that in and of themselves might not be systematic structural issues with multilateral institutions but twitch -- but seem to suggest institutions' true purpose is being perverted. the balance between the goals and purposes of the multilateral institutions are being properly served but everyone is investing in them fairly i think is the tension that we have. i would go beyond saying there is a need for cooperation in solving global challenges and say there is an important role for multilateral institutions -- organizations in coordinating global responses. rushes to tunisia to invest in countries that requir

chris cooper, was d.o.d. able to put all these security system funds before the end of the fiscal year? >> no sir. >> how much were they not able to obligate? what was left on it? >> i believe the figure was 35 million. we were able to actually obligate 80% in total. >> you mentioned you were able because of legislation the congress passed to do that, exonerate? >> the remainder were in the process because of the provision in the continuing resolution. >> but for an act of congress, you couldn't have spent all the money? >> if we have not received the provision and the continuing resolution, we would've obligated 88% but not the full amount. >> right, which of course would be a violation of law do not spend money that congress appropriated. >> circle, not a lawyer but that is my understanding. >> sure. thank you. secretary hale, where were you born? >> and arbor michigan. >> as you're family from ireland? >> no sir. >> strike it. another question. with respect to secretary yovanovitch. and he served as ambass

cooper? >> i'm not a lawyer but that approximates my understanding of the provision of the impoundment control act. >> i will go with that, thank you very much. >> mr. conaway. as paul harvey said, here's the rest of the story. certain issues with respect to the certification. dod certification was not corruption writ large through the entire country of ukraine. it was focused on defense institutional reforms and combat capability. >> that is correct. >> ms. cooper, thank you for being here. i appreciate it. my colleagues seem to leave that out. he left off the correct emphas emphasis. certification in may didn't really speak to the broader concept of corruption throughout the rest of ukraine that the president would be familiar with, the -- >> the main certification was specific to the defense sector, defense industry, and it did reference the importance of civilian control of the military which relates more broadly. >> none of us would argue that that fixes corruption throughout the rest of

because this is laura cooper's job. she handled the defense department portion of the military aid and even she was having a hard time, wolf, explaining to a congressional investigators what was going on. she said she became aware of it in july. but there was a concern about whether or not this was even legal because congress had already appropriated this money, wolf. >> what did she tell investigators about specific conversations that she had with ambassador volker for example. >> reporter: well she was trying to get to the bottom of why the money was being withheld and she was told by kurt volker an effort was being pead to see if the government of ukraine would make a statement to disavow any interference in the u.s. collection and commit to the prosecution of any individual involved in election interference. that is about as specific as it got. again, woit is clear she was having a hard time explaining exactly what happened. even though this is her job, this is kept very tightly around the president of the united st

cooper? >> no, that does not sound appropriate. >> ambassador hale, you testified that you were aware ambassador sondland was involving himself in matters that, and i quote, went beyond the normal writ of an ambassador to the european union, unquote. as you understood it, who authorized ambassador sondland to work on ukraine? >> i had no first-hand knowledge of that. i received a readout from a meeting that the president of the united states had with the delegation on may 23rd in which the briefing i received anyway, indicated that the president wanted the members of that delegation which included ambassador sondland to carry forth the policies that were discussed in the course of that meeting. >> so that occurred in a meeting in the oval office is when you heard that information with the written readout of that, yes. >> you testified and i quote, it was clear that the members of that delegation were empowered by the president and it's what you testified and you also said, and i quote, as a p

miss cooper may -- >> madam cooper, would you like to comment? >> i do believe that was my deposition. could you repeat the question briefly? >> the ukrainian armed forces were, quote, significantly less capable than it is today. would you say that ukrainian forces were outmatched by russia's military in critical ways? >> absolutely. >> are the ukrainian forces now completely self sufficient in your mind? essentially in their ability to deter russian aggression? >> no, sir. they have a long way to go. >> would you say that the ukrainian armed forces are now completely self sufficient or how much of an impact does the u.s. need to have in terms of that deterrence and how critical is the relationship between both ukraine and the u.s.? >> sir, the ukrainians are on the right path to be able to provide for their own security, but they will still need u.s. and allied support for quite some time. and they need that support in the form of tangible assistance as well as political and diplomatic support. >> so this question is to the both of you. why was

miss cooper. >> mr. chairman, ranking members of this committee, i appear today to provide facts and answer question based on my experience as a deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia. i would first like to describe my background as well as my role and vantage point relative to your inquiry. i bring to my daily work and this proceedings my sense of duty to u.s. national security, not to any political party. i have proudly served two democratic and two republican presidents. i entered government service through the presidential management internship competition joining the state department in 1999 to work on counter-terrorism in europe and the former soviet union. inspired by working with the u.s. military on a department of defense rotational assignment, i decided to accept a civil service position in the policy organization of the office of the secretary of defense in january, 2001, where i have remained for the past 18 years. my strong sense of pride in serving my country

this is laura cooper senior u.s. department of defense officials already working to provide them i think this specific topic though is more suitable for a closed door session that's a good be thankful to your service to our country that is castro thank you chairman and thank you all for your testimony today i want to make an important distinction here because a few of my colleagues have rattled off countries where we've actually held up aid there is a big distinction between holding up aid for a legitimate policy reason foreign policy reason and holding up a because it's part of a shakedown because it's in the service of a president who asked for a political favor of a country to go investigate a political rival i think that's important for us to know. and i want to ask you. this cooper you said that the money was cleared to go private may 23rd is that right that's correct and it didn't get released until september 11th yes i should just clarify. the 2nd half of the ukraine security assistance and initiative was noti

laura cooper. she works at the pentagon. when her transcript was released, it was of course released in the 4:00 hour so i had to read it stabbing myself in my eye with my glasses. but what jumped out at me reading it like that was that there were questions at the pentagon about the law. there were questions about whether or not it was illegal. so you talk about that which is impeachable. there were questions about -- at least questions about what was legal. >> so after congress appropriates money, there's a big question about whether the president can -- can then stop that. so i think that cooper will be important, one, in tying the halting of a directly to the white house. but remember, she is the deputy secretary of defense. so she also understands how vital this aid is to ukraine. so i think she will also establish that this shakedown was extremely effective because ukraine had to have this money. and they expressed their concerns to the department of defense. >> you know, ari, some of the most

cooper. >> mr. chairman, ranking member, members of this to many, i appeared today to provide facts and answer questions based on my experience has a deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine, and eurasia. i would first like to describe my background as well as my own role and vantage point relevant to your inquiry. i bring to my daily work and to this proceeding my sense of duty to u.s. national security, not to any political party. i have probably served to democratic and to do. i entered government service through the internship -- working on counterterrorism in europe and the former soviet union. working on a defense's rotational assignment, i decided to accept a civil service position in the policy organization of the office of the secretary of defense in january 2001 where i am remained for the past 18 years. my strong sense of pride in serving my country and dedication to my pentagon colleagues were cemented in the moments after i felt the pentagon shake beneath me on septembe

if we want to make a difference in these countries, we need not just cooperation and cooperation, but coordination between countries that share the same objectives and values. that is why you have seen the united states rely more on organizations that share its values to some degree, like nato rather than the united nations when it needs to achieve harder goals like in afghanistan or iraq. liselotte: thanks. martin, you get the final word before the q&a. martin: just on that point which goes to the heart of the legitimacy. of the u.n.. it is important to recognize. americanformer president, i can't remember which one, but someone said you have to recognize the u.n. is a bit of a hybrid. on one hand, a lot of these value-based things, the universal declaration of human rights, by eleanor roosevelt, the human rights council is one. and on the other hand, it is hybrid because it mixes that with the balancing of the power of states. the respect for sovereignty. noninterference, and that sometimes produces what seems in our views very odd situations. catherine, i think the point you made,

miss cooper may -- >> miss cooper, would you like to comment? >> i'm sorry. i do believe that was my deposition. could you repeat the question briefly. during the time of russia's 2014 attack the ukrainian armed forces were quote significantly less capable than it is today. would you say the ukrainian forces were outmatched by russia's military in critical ways? >> absolutely. >> are the ukrainian forces now self-sufficient in your mind, in their ability to deter russian aggression? >> no, sir. they have long way to go. >> would you say the ukrainian armed forces are now completely self-sufficient, or how much of an impact does the u.s. need to have in terms of that deterrence, and how critical is the relationship between both ukraine and the u.s.? >> sir, the ukrainians are on the right path to be able to provide for their own security, but they will still need u.s. and allied support for quite some time. they need that support in the form of no tangible assistance as well as political and diplomatic support. >> this question is to the both of you. why was r

despite current friction, there is ample room for us to cooperate on trade issues. a major priority to the u.s. and for european partners is wto reform which we should all support. i'm encouraged the trend, european union and japan are cooperating to fight policies that undermine free markets. i support the administration focus on reforming developing country status within wto. the wto remains crucial to a functioning international trading system but to compete with china we can put all our eggs in that basket. we must consider other forms of economic harding such as more cooperation on investment screening and better alignment on export controls to safeguard critical technologies. we should also work to secure and strengthen critical infrastructure, particularly ports. china's present is growing from rotterdam. the u.s. department of defense assesses china's greater access to foreign ports that allows china's military to pre-position necessary logistics, support to regularize existing deployments in the far seas, according to the defense department. these ports are

cooper, if i can, page three. the president directed the office of management budget of holding the funds because of the concern about corruption in ukraine. and you come from the dod side. i served a year in iraq and it was important and i think it's something that the army always does as i have seen this we don't want to deliver aid or assistance if it is going toe some corrupt or being delivered in a correct way if we are going to build a medical treatment facility for the iraqis we want to make sure we are not getting charged ten times as much. gein general when we are delivering funds through the dod is that correct? >> yes, sir. >> that is a normal thing to want to be concerned>> about and we would do that in iraq and especially if we are providing payments for something. i just want to go through a few things with you because multiple witnesses testified strong support. ambassador yovanovitch said the president of trump's decision to provide lethal weapons to ukraine the policy of stronger over the last thr

this is quoting chris cooper. in light of how's resolution six 60 which is a procedure per public hearings will you reef a refrain from hearing any other official from cooperating going forward? >> i did not prohibit what i told her the information and spoke to a lawyer and the information we received in interviews about the impeachment process at the challenge we would be able to send a lawyer and have that available information but we understand the individuals are making their own decisions. >> even if you're just forwarding a letter from your department and i forget where it emanated from but for you to send it it does create a chilling effect. are you intending to continue to forward these kinds of letters or from any other? >> i don't know any other individuals but it felt inappropriate do not have their lawyer be aware of this information so that's why we shared it. >> you can understand why? >> it's just if you don't send it what do you do so we strive is that the right tone in the letter. >> in the letter

cooper? >> a non what? >> a non-impeachment inquiry question? >> sir, my time is yours. >> what can we do to help the ukrainians defend against russian electronic warfare? what more can we be doing to help defend? >> what i can say in an open hearing is there actually is some electronic warfare detection equipment that is included in the usai package. so there's a piece of capability we're already working to provide them. i think this specific topic, though, is more suitable for a closed door session. >> that's a good copy. thank you both for your service to our country. and chairman, i yield back. >> thank you, chairman. and thank you all for your testimony today. i want us to make an important distinction here because a few of my colleagues have rattled off countries where we've actually held up aid. there is a big distinction between holding up aid for a legitimate policy reason, foreign policy reason and holding up aid as part of a shakedown. because it's in the service of a president who

i want to zero in on one thing we learned from laura cooper. she was talking about the confusion and unease and serious concern for this holdup of $400 million of aid for ukraine. she was at the pentagon and unclear even dealing with her ukrainian counterparts how that money would be released. one important point she did make was all the agencies at the federal government were united in this desire for ukraine to get that military aid, they had done enough to combat corruption. one agency was the exception, office of management and budget led by the acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney. he has been subpoenaed to testify on the hill and he has defied that subpoena. what we will see later this week, wolf, three of the key witnesses in this impeachment inquiry talked about this rogue policy led by rudy guiliani in ukraine. >> reporter: the impeachment inquiry bursting into the open this week. historic appearances by witnesses who gave damning testimony behind closed doors and quid pro quo in ukraine now set to do it for the world to hear. democrat

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prepared to cooperate with china? i guess that would be my question to you. you mentioned fentanyl and north korea. do you see areas where soon or maybe somewhere down the road we could make the case to our european friends we're also prepared to cooperate with china? >> yeah, i think first of all, look, we as i said in my speech, not all engagement with china is bad. certainly, china's got a long cultural history that people are interested in, and there's those kinds of things are important. but they've also got one and a third billion people and those people are consumers so as a result of that, we have in the past done our best to try to cooperate on trade and i think that will happen going forward. look, what's holding up trade right now, in my judgement, is not so much the numbers and the and the tariffs that are put on, but china has got to develop a rule of law we it comehen it comes to handling intellectual property. it must do that. not only must it develop a rule of law, it must commit to the enforcement of the rule of law and they've got to do it b

you are now it was cooper the 3rd witness. before our committee has testified that the ukrainians found out about the problem or a hole in the security systems prior to it becoming public but you're the 1st to indicate that that may go back as early as the date of the president's call the president's olinsky let me move to a related issue in august you testified your deposition that you met with kurt volker i believe was an august 20th the hold on security assistance was still in place you testified that ambassador volcker told you that if you could get zelinsky to make a public statement quote that would somehow disavow any interference in u.s. elections and would commit to the prosecution of any individuals involved in election interference it might lift the hold on security assistance is that current or i believe that i testified that it was my inference that that would lift the hold on ukraine security assistance and that was your inference because at the time you were talking about the hold on security assistance that's c

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prepared to cooperate with china. i guess that would be my question for you. you mentioned fentanyl and north korea, but do you see areas where soon or maybe somewhere down the road we could make the case to our european friends that we also are prepared to cooperate with china? >> well, i think, first of all, look, as i said in my speech, not all engagement with china is bad. certainly china has got a long cultural history that people are interested in and those kinds of things are important, but they've also got one and a third billion people and those people are consumers so as a result of that we have in the past done our best to try to cooperate on trade and i think that will happen going forward. look, what's holding up trade right now in my judgment is not so much the trade -- the numbers and the -- and the tariffs that are put on, but china has got to develop a rule of law when it comes to handling intellectual property. it must do that. not only must it develop a rule of law, it must commit that the en farcement of the rule of law and they've got to d

this abrupt shift from this camp going from suggesting we're not going to cooperate. this investigation is not valid. this inquiry is not valid to saying nope, we're actually willing to cooperate, we're willing to participate. i think we should all be -- we should all be eager to hear, at least hear reports of what's going to happen during that testimony. what are the documents that are going to come forward? because part of what is happening is that a new kind of story, or it's contributing to a new kind of story emerging. and again, rudy giuliani has been in the hot seat for some time now. i would be extremely concerned if i was rudy giuliani, and also explains in part why he continues to do, continues to go on essentially what is a wild goose chase and continues to engage in these off-the-books shadow government meetings because the people are turning up the heat on him right now. so he is concerned that partially explains why we continue to see this behavior. one more thing, ari, that i think is important. there is something to be said about rudy giuliani and his

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in brasilia the so-called brics countries are trying to strengthen economic scientific and security cooperation not an easy task for rather divergent group especially economically china is miles away from the rest of the pack its gross domestic product exceeded 13 trillion dollars last year india's population is almost as high as china is but its g.d.p. was a 5th of that the next 2 are closer to each others levels brazil at $1.00 trillion russia at $1.00 and there south africa at just under half a trillion. now on gallagher is our correspondent in south africa she joins us now from cape town hi alison oh these countries have all ended up in different places economically many have wondered whether brics as a grouping still makes sense so can you tell us what does south africa actually get out of this membership ls are you with us can you hear me. yes and last you know i can hear you again. i would just like to repeat my question that i wanted to ask you what does south africa actually get from this number said of the brics group oh it's incredibly important for south africa mainly now because it

attorney durham's probe ukraine should should cooperate with the united states and to the extent there ukrainians doing improper things the ukrainians ought to investigate that themselves correct this custard the ukrainian american relations are are very supportive the ukrainians wolf will certainly be responsive to 'd requests so when the president on the call transcript the july 25th raises this with presidents lansky and he urges that there be a connection between. the ukrainian government and the justice department officially i mean that's the appropriate way to raise an issue with the ukrainian president correct. it's appropriate for the justice department and the prosecutor general to cooperate and to exchange information but to the extent the president has concerns and to the extent the attorney general is is having years to turn a durham look into that isn't it entirely appropriate for the president to flag this for president selenski and say the you should be in touch with our official channels. i don't know the precise. appropriateness of these kind of violations now were you

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i will say he cooperated and answered all of our questions. we learn more about this investigation and as a former prosecutor, what is remarkable about this investigation is that it is almost entirely driven by witness accounts. or witness accounts. most investigations today are driven by document production, reviewing emailed communication, electronic communication, the administration has refused to turn over any electronic communication and we have been severely limited. because people have come forward and produced information, we learn more. i can only imagine where this investigation will be if documents were actually turned over. in spite of that, brave courageous americans from the state department have aided our investigation. your you enjoy the rest of saturday. >> today was a really bad day for democrats. since i have gotten to congress, this was one of the worst most unsuccessful fishing expeditions that i have witnessed. today, we brought in mark sandy who is a dedicated career employee of the office of management and budget to ans

prepared to cooperate with china? i guess that would be my question to you. you mentioned fentanyl and north korea. do you see areas where soon or maybe somewhere down the road we could make the case to our european friends we're also prepared to cooperate with china? >> yeah, i think first of all, look, we -- as i said in my speech, not all engagement with china is bad. certainly, china's got a long cultural history that people are interested in, and there's -- those kinds of things are important. but they've also got one and a third billion people and those people are consumers so as a result of that, we have in the past done our best to try to cooperate on trade and i think that will happen going forward. look, what's holding up trade right now, in my sjudgement, is not so much the numbers and the -- and the tariffs that are put on, but china has got to develop a rule of law we it che comes to handling intellectual property. it must do that. not only must it develop a rule of law, it must commit to the enforcement of the rule of law and they've got to do i

with china when it comes to cooperation that we've made russia and when it comes to internal issues of the european union as well sometimes you do have the feeling that some smaller member states. for the same things for which some of those got praised you know and this is this is really something that we have to change that's why we are very vocal about it comes to dubai. the future. debates in very actively. now the last time i heard you mention that word was in relation to. central and eastern european countries willingness to do business with china and you made the point that bigger countries like germany and france are far ahead in the game and yet for some reason they seem to be rather displeased about other countries willing to catch up how do you interpret that kind of criticism is a competition is it an effort to control is it something else. making business with china is pretty beneficial for everyone because the chinese companies are getting stronger and stronger. chinese investors. are. countries. no question about it i mean the old. laws. for cheap labor knowledge base

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parnas is going the look for a way to cooperate. he has good attorneys to guy him through this thicket. >> chuck rosenberg gets tonight's last word. thanks for joining us, chuck. really appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> that is tonight's "the last word." "the 11th hour with brian williams" starts now. >>> tonight the impeachment investigation intensifies. one of those two indicted giuliani associates may be ready to cooperate. >>> and the democrats just released transcripts of their tell a remarkable story of the ambassador to ukraine, realizing rudy was conducting foreign policy, realizing she was being drummed out with no support from her boss, feeling threatened on the job and amazed to hear the president talking about her with a foreign leader on the phone. >>> also tonight, the increasing evidence that the ukraine corruption conspiracy theory dates back to paul manafort, who is now in prison. >>> and a big loss for trump today as an important federal court weighs in on his taxes, and tonight the experts weigh in on where they t

laura cooper testified to this. she said towards the end of august when kurt volker met with me for what, you know, i thought was going to be, you know, just a routine touch base on ukraine but also i thought it was going to be a strategizing session on how we get the security assistance released knowing that we both wanted the funding released. so in that meeting he did mention something to me that, you know, was the first about how somehow an effort that he was engaged in to see if there was a statement that the government of ukraine would make that would somehow disavow any interference in u.s. elections and would commit to the prosecution of any individuals involved in election interference. and that was about as specific as it got. questioner, okay, did he indicate to you that if that channel he was working with successful it might lift this issue? yes, it would seem, jeremy bash, we have another witness. this one from the pentagon testifying to the conditioning of military aid on the investigations of both the

there are areas where cooperate and advance values we have this china. on the made in china 2025 question, i always thought it got r more attention than it deserved because again, so much of what was happening in the initiative happened before that. tech transfer through investment vehicles, through theft, cyber espionage, through students. that's long standing. a lot was state directed. in the past and continues to be the present. that was a poor branding choice because it gave a coherent target a. no longer visible. a think tank has done a quantitative analysis thoushowig it's disappeared in china. just gone. it's also inevitable. on the culture point, i very much agree with my colleagues. i focus more on institutions or aim. i think they matter more so i didn't want to get too far into it but others can give you more information. there's a rich discourse on how to quantity certain aspects of culture. may be. >> on decoupling and promoting depend ens is actually going to sell the divergence between the united states and the two economies and two politi

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cooper remain safe. what steps have you already taken to send a clear message to dod staff that their identity, their jobs and take it would be protected if they come forward tove report abuse or misconduct? >> so this is something we have as a matter of fact, it's on all sorts of things. we have ig reports, gao reports. this is part of the culture of how come when people come for respect and be honest and truthful in their dealings and we expect to be taken care been doing so. we look for and i just looks if there's an issue of reprisal to make sure those are held accountable for it and we look for the security. as i mentioned i will not measure but if we think there's a a security issue we do with local authorities. these are the types of things that occur in different forms and we provide the same standard and approach across the fifth i think it's in a fourth signal that we seenen in the way we del with organizations. >> it's very important for the dod from the top to say that the whistleblowers who

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if he does cooperate, if the witnesses do come forward and cooperate, there's no good that is going to come of it from him. already all the information has corroborated what the initial whistle-blower already stated. >> right. there are eight accounts of a quid pro quo of people testifying in the inquiry even with the white house not cooperating. that is mounting evidence that the president used taxpayer money. as far as evidence mounting, it's not looking good. >> no, it's not looking good at all. as we already mentioned, it doesn't seem to affect the way democrats feel. in the same "washington post" poll, most feel the impeachment inquiry is politically motivated and that the the republican response is politically motivated. the evidence is mounting. and if you look back to the nixon case, eventually people started to turn. but for the most it looks like trump's case is incredibly solid. they're happy to believe all the various defenses he has come up with. that there was no quid pro quo. you could delegitimize the people coming forward, it was okay to polledly ask china to investiga