political campaign. five hours later in a markedly different tone, much more formal, sondland says bill, i believe you were inkrek about president trump s intentions. the president has been clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. the president is trying to evaluate whether you crane is going to adopt the reforms president zelensky promised. i suggest we stop the back and forth by text if you have still have concerns, i recommend you give lisa kenna a call to discuss them directly. thanks. josh, again, a kimpbt taupe. some different tone. some called this a cya text. your new reporting shows that this ambassador had a phone conversation with the president between those two texts. do you know what they talked about? we don t know. but what nbc news is has confirmed is that after ambassador taylor sent that message saying this was crazy, raising his concerns about deal
mentioned it was kind of cya text where they re coming after us, this isn t a quid pro quo. but to involve all of these senior state department officials and send them off on behalf of the president is incredible. and then with respect to china, simply engaging with what i view as our greatest strategic and economic rival in the world and dragging them into our domestic politics and asking them to interfere in one of our elections is beyond comprehensionable. you ve got diplomats quoted saying we want nothing to do with your domestic politics, you want to talk about trade and tariffs we ll do that. but the president holding the tariffs over their head saying i ve got these tariffs as leverage if you don t help me with the bidens. he lacks any concept of where the guardrails are? you think? yeah, i m kinda getting that. took me a couple years. he s living in his real estate world where you re trying to get a deal done, you pull out every tool in the arsenal that you can