Mr. Collins, the Ranking Member of the US House Judiciary Committee is a danger to the USA's Constitution.

He is engaged in half-truths STILL.

The truth behind this evening's hearing regarding the impeachment of Donald J. Trump begins with patriots, men and women that have devoted their lives to this country. Those that see the truth should proceed tonight with confidence and resolve.

People like Ambassador Taylor are the Americans that take on the responsibility, they take on the danger and they provide the dignity that conveys the best of the USA. They can't be let down by the very US Congress they have provided with the truth. They matter, their testimony is important and it is in the US House meeting room to carry forward the truth and resolve.

William B. Taylor (click here)

Ambassador, UkraineTerm of Appointment: 06/05/2006 to present

Inevitably, (click here) in the days to come, Republicans will rely on their supporters in the media to present the impeachment hearings as a matter of interpretation. In the moment, though, Taylor, a West Point graduate, Vietnam veteran, and longtime diplomat, was sober and deliberate. Like his co-testifier today, George Kent, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Taylor took pains during his opening remarks to describe himself as nonpartisan. “I am not here to take one side or the other,” he said. “My sole purpose is to provide facts as I know them.” He carefully described the situation he stepped into when he became the acting Ambassador this summer. There were, he discovered, two channels of American policy toward Ukraine. There was the “regular” channel, in which he interacted with Kent and officials at the National Security Council, and there was the “irregular” channel, which included Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer; Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff; and others. It was through this “irregular” channel, Taylor said, that hundreds of millions of dollars in security assistance and a White House visit were used to pressure Ukraine to provide Trump with political ammunition against the campaign of Joe Biden....

Ambassador Taylor walks the same land as President Zelenskyy and would never compromise the Ukraine president as Donald J. Trump has.

Hardly six months into his tenure as the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has already learned to temper his expectations. He does not expect his first round of peace talks with Russia, which are scheduled to take place in Paris on Dec. 9, to end the war that has been raging along their border for the past five years. Nor does he expect too much from his Western allies going into these negotiations, Zelensky said in a wide-ranging interview on Saturday....

...But (click here) he also pushed back on Trump’s recent claims about corruption in Ukraine, and questioned the fairness of Trump’s decision to freeze American aid. “If you’re our strategic partner, then you can’t go blocking anything for us,” he said. “I think that’s just about fairness. It’s not about a quid pro quo.”...

Collins owes the country an apology for his lies in the opening statement of the Ranking member. All the money legislated to Ukraine still has not been delivered.

November 20, 2019
By Shiro Tarlo

The White House (click here) is still withholding some of the congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine that President Donald Trump froze over the summer, even as impeachment investigators scrutinize whether the commander-in-chief used the funds as leverage to pressure a foreign leader to commit publicly to investigations that would benefit him politically.

More than $35 million of the nearly $400 million in military aid that Trump had halted has not been released to Ukraine, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday, citing Pentagon spending documents it had obtained. Instead, the aid for Ukraine remains in U.S. accounts. The newspaper noted it is unclear why the money has not been released....