meeting are conditioned on investigations? as summer turned to fall, it kept getting more insidious, mr. sondland testified. mr. taylor who took notes of his conversations said, ambassador told him at a september 1st phone call that everything was dependent on the public announcement investigations including security assistance. president trump wanted mr. se mr. zelensky in a public box. mr. trump is a businessman, sondland said later. when a businessman is about to sign chic to someone that owes him something, the businessman asks that person to pay up before signing the check. in a sworn declaration of taylor's testimony, sondland would admit to telling ukrainians at a september 1st meeting in warsaw, quote, that