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Schiff: Mulvaney comments on Ukraine aid have made things 'much, much worse'
By Zack Budryk - 10/17/19 02:43 PM EDT 
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/466327-schiff-mulvaney-comments-on-ukraine-aid-have-made-things-much-much-worse
https://archive.is/peuNV

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Thursday that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s comments linked the withholding of aid to Ukraine to investigations into the 2016 election have made things "much worse" for the president. 

“I think Mr. Mulvaney’s acknowledgment means that things have gone from very, very bad to much, much worse,” Schiff, a key Democrat in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump, told reporters Thursday. 
Schiff demurred when asked how Mulvaney’s comments would affect the pace of the House’s impeachment inquiry.

Schiff added that he hopes every member of Congress, Democrat and Republican, will “speak out and condemn this elicit action by the president and his chief of staff.” 

Schiff did not respond to questions over whether Mulvaney will be brought in to testify as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry. 

The California lawmaker's comments come after Mulvaney had earlier indicated that the Trump administration held up military aid to Ukraine in part because officials wanted Kiev to investigate unproven election interference allegations linking the country to a Democratic National Committee (DNC) server.

“I have news for everybody. Get over it. There’s going to be political influence in foreign policy ... that’s going to happen. Elections have consequences,” Mulvaney told reporters Thursday, saying “we do that all the time with foreign policy" when asked if a “quid pro quo” was involved in the eventual release of the aid.

Mulvaney denied any aid was withheld to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.

The comments came the same day that Sondland testified. He was expected to tell members that a text message in which he said Trump “didn’t want a quid pro quo ... didn’t want anything from Ukraine” was dictated by Trump himself.

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