led by giuliani to get the ukranians to investigate the bidens. and he will go into the details about how expensive it was, how many people were involved, how premeditated it was, how long giuliani had been working on this for months and months in advance, and how assertive giuliani, volker, sondland were in trying to get the ukranians to do this. and we heard testimony from george kent, a top state department official, that they were trying to get zelensky to publicly declare on tv that they were officially investigating the bidens and even drafting a statement to help help do lp th. so we will learn more about the process of shadow diplomacy and why this is just it goes so much against the way diplomacy normally works and functions. so we ll be getting a look at that and we re also getting a look at a new bombshell book, we ll talk about that now. and we want to thank yyou for
order to get a meeting. vindman adding there was this ambiguity that white house meeting was contingent on ukraine opening an investigation into joe biden and his son hunter. several witnesses testified that the hold up of military aid was also directed by mulvaney. hill recounted how the proposed deal alarmed john bolton who she said immediately stiffened and ended the july 10th meeting. last month mulvany admitted that there was indeed a quid pro quo before he later walked it back. i have news for everybody. get over it. there is going to be political influence in foreign policy. reporter: vindman also discussed how he drafted talking points ahead of the july 25th phone call between trump and zelensky and said that his suggestions definitely did not include anything about investigations into the 2016 election, the bidens or burisma. when fiona hill finally read the rough transcript of the president s call with zelensky, she said she was very shocked and very saddened about trump
policy at the behest of the president. and at a key time in relations with ukraine. and in which ukraine was seeking vital aid, roughly $400 million that had already been approved by the u.s. congress but then delayed by the administration, also the new president of ukraine, zelensky, had sought a meeting with president trump in washington to essentially show support for zelensky. but the white house put that on hold too. why? according to testimony that you will hear next week, because ukranians announce this investigation. essentially the president wanted the announcement to be made before moving forward. and you will hear questions about why the aid was withheld. bill day alreataylor has testif the aid had been withheld from what he had been told because the president was waiting for zelgs to announ zelensky to announce the