quote, abundantly clear to them that if they wanted the aid, and i quote that they were going to have to make these statements. mr. goldman, beginning on and around the tent 25th of july call through december, would you agree that consistent with the testimony be revealed, ukraine was made aware that to receive our military aid and white house visit, they would have to make a statement announcing the investigations? not only where they made aware, they were made aware either by president trump s proxy rudy giuliani or from president trump himself through ambassador sondland who spoke to president zelensky and andre are yermak that the aide was conditioned o on the investigations. by the end, president zelensky committed to making that statement on cnn. was i correct?
different occasions to note the grave concerns about the president s conduct. what led to draft the notes on these files? there was a conversation at the end of june were several american officials had indicated to president zelensky that he needed to go forward with these investigations. there was one august 14th i recall but you bring up a very important points, which is all of the state department witnesses and particularly, and frankly all the witnesses other than ambassador sondland took unbelievable, meticulous notes. i would ve dreamed of for a witness like that as a prosecutor. it makes for a very clear and compelling record a clear and compelling evidence that spaced on based on contemporaneous notes. do we have mr. kent s notes on this progress? we have none, advisor
right? writes. according to the u.s. investor to ukraine and we have ambassador taylor s testimony there, it wasn t until ambassador sondland told the ukrainians that there would be , but zelensky agreed to the investigations president trump was demanding, correct? that s right, yes. furthermore the committee heard testimonies that they felt they had no choice but to comply with president trump s demands. correct? yes, even after the aide was released. in fact, when asked of president trump in september whether he felt pressured, presidents lenski said, quote , i m sorry, i do not want to be involved in the elections of the usa. is that right? that sounds right if you are reading the quote. the president and some of his
important. and there is a lot of them, running out of time here. but there is a reference to lushenko when others have told us it s likely shokin. vindman and morrison s reason they went to the lawyers from a very different reason the gentleman s time has expired. i recognize the gentlewoman from florida for 5 minutes. mr. goldman, as a director of the intelligence committee, i specifically and first-hand evidence that president trump conditioned our military aid on ukraine, announced investigations into the 2016 election into the bidens, and betrayed our national security interests in the process. for example, ambassador sondland told us that once the ukrainians found out about the aid being withheld, it was made, and i
finally president zelensky relented after months of what he called the domestic u.s. political process and ultimately recognizing that he had no choice to break the stalemate as ambassador sondland told them that he ultimately agreed to go on television before president trump got caught and released the aid of. i d like to direct your attention to the screen in front of you. that headline said, trump tried to force ukraine to metal in the 2020 elections and the article reports that president trump, and i quote, attempting to force zelensky launching and investigating in the leading democrat joe biden. he s not soliciting help with the president shall campaign campaign, he s using united states military aid the country needs and attend to extort it.