I thank Leader McConnell as I mentioned before working hand in hand with us not

letting partisanship get in the way. I thank Speaker Johnson who rose to the

occasion in his own words, said he had to do the right thing

despite the enormous political pressure on him. And I thank Leader Jeffries

who worked so well together in his bipartisan way with Speaker

Johnson. And let me say this once again about my friend, the Republican leader. We were of one mind to get this

bill done. It was our bipartisanship, our linking of arms together that got this

large and difficult bill through the Congress despite many

political ideologues who wanted to bring it down.

By partisanship once again prevailed and I thank him for his leadership.

But what took so long to get some of these other eight Republicans persuaded to your position there?

Was it the overall nature of this bill and what was lost in that time

period for Ukraine? Well that's a good question. You already know the answer. I think the

demonization of Ukraine began by Tucker Carlson, who in my opinion ended up where he

should have been all along, which was interviewing Vladimir Putin. And so he had an enormous audience which convinced a lot of rank-and-file Republicans

that maybe this was a mistake.

Right, there is currently deliberation over Steve Bannon's name into this conversation

that the defense for Donald Trump is asserting and objecting to this line of questioning of

David Becker around Steve Bannon in his relationship with Becker because

Becker has now testified that in October of 2016 that Donald Trump introduced Steve

Bannon to David Peker.

Now of course in October of 2016 was at the heart while all of the deliberations over the Storm

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