anda thoritatively about the pressure campaign waged against ukraine. they described an effort to leverage that country to deliver the politically motivated investigations the president wanted. and it was gent that backdrop the star witness, ambassador taylor, dropped an important new revelation, a bombshell really linking the president directly to that scheme. one day after the president asked ukrainian president zelensky to dig up dirt on his political opponents a member of taylor s staff heard a conversation. and here s how taylor described what he heard. in the presence of my staff at a restaurant ambassador sondland called president trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. the member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations.