Schumer calls for hearings, subpoena following whistle-blower complaint

The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, asks the Republican Senate to hold hearings and issue a subpoena to the Trump administration in response to a whistleblower's complaint regarding the alleged request of the president Donald Trump asking Ukraine to open an investigation into one of its political opponents.

In a letter Monday morning to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Schumer (DN.Y.) said that the Senate should hold hearings on any link between delayed aid at the time of the hearing. Ukraine and Trump's claim that the country would investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden, one of the leading Democratic candidates in the presidential election next year . Schumer also asks McConnell to compel the Senate to issue a subpoena to bring the whistleblower's complaint to Congress "in accordance with the requirements of the law."

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Schumer calls on "Senate, Republican Majority, to take immediate action to prevent President Trump from withholding a whistleblower complaint from the intelligence community that the law must be passed to Congress, and to open an investigation on the treatment by the administration of the security assistance provided to Ukraine, "reads the letter. "The Senate, led by the Republicans, remained silent and submissive, shirking the constitutional obligation of this institution to conduct surveillance."

Schumer also asks McConnell to rely on the White House to identify the administration officials who had delayed $ 250 million of aid paid to Ukraine earlier this year and publish a transcript of Trump's conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which President Trump reportedly lobbied the Ukrainian government to investigate Vice President Biden and his family, "as Schumer says.The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had lobbied several times about Zelensky about Biden's son.

Trump told reporters Sunday that he had warned the Ukrainian president of corruption in his country and that he "does not want our people, like Vice President Biden and his son [Hunter], thus creating corruption already in Ukraine. "Trump suggested disclosing more information about his conversation with Zelensky and Senator Lindsey Graham (RS.C) said Monday at the Hugh Hewitt Show show that Trump" was going to amaze you with his willingness to disclose and be transparent about this phone call ".