hearing this, bolton abruptly ended the meeting. undeterred, sondland brought the ukrainian delegation and alexander vindman downstairs to another part of the white house where they were joined by dr. hill. in this second meeting, sondland was more explicit. ukraine needed to conduct investigations if they were to get a meeting at all. bolton directed dr. hill to report this to nsc legal adviser john eisenberg telling her, you go and tell eisenberg that i am not part of whatever drug deal sondland and mulvaney are cooking up on this. and you go ahead and tell him what you heard and what i've said. dr. hill did so, as did lieutenant colonel vindman, who separately approached the same lawyers with his concerns. on july 18, the day before dr. hill left her post at the nsc, holmes participated in a secure interagency video conference on ukraine. towards the end of the meeting, a representative from the office