sche scheme, because mr. mulvaney was in the loop. everyone was in the loop. as ambassador sondland summarized in his testimony on july 19th, he e-mailed several top administration officials including mr. mulvaney that president zelensky was prepared to receive potus s call and would ensure president trump that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will turn over every stone. mr. mulvaney replied i asked nsc to set it up for tomorrow. the above email seems clear, ambassador sondland testified that it was clear, that he was confirming to mr. mulvaney that
he complains that few witnesses spoke directly to the president about his misconduct beyond his damning conversations with sondland and mulvaney. okay. let s hear from others, then. the witnesses the house wishes to call directly , to the president s own words, his own admissions of guilt, his own confessions of responsibility. if they did not, all the president s men would be on their witness list, not ours. these witnesses and the documents that their agencies produce tell the full story. and i believe that we are interested in hearing the full story. you should want to hear it. more than that, the american people, we know they want to hear it. the house republicans own
investigations. there is simply no evidence anywhere that president trump ever linked security assistance to any investigations. most of the democrats witnesses have never spoken to the president at all, let alone about ukraine s security assistance. not a single witness testified that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigations and security assistance, a presidential meeting or anything else. simply not true, as the testimony of ambassador sondland and the admission of mick mulvaney make very clear. the evidence before you proves that the president not only linked the aid to the investigations, he also conditioned both the white house meeting and the aid on ukraine s announcement of the investigations, but if you want more, a witness to acknowledge that the president told them directly that the aid was
i have a deal here with chief of staff mulvaney there will be a meeting if the ukrainians open up or announce these investigations into 2016 and burisma, and i cut it off immediately there. ambassador bolton told me that i am not part of this whatever drug deal that mulvaney and sondland are cooking up. what did you understand him to mean by the drug deal that mulvaney and sondland were cooking up? i took it to mean investigations for a meeting. did you go speak to the lawyers? zb . i certainly did. what i want to ask you about he makes reference in that drug deal to a drug deal cooked up by you and mulvaney. it s the reference to mulvaney that i want to ask you about. you ve testified that mulvaney was aware of this quid pro quo of this condition that the ukrainians had to meet that is announcing these public investigations to get the white house meeting.
he had told president zelensky he had to tell president trump on that july 25th call that he would announce the investigation, which he explained was a reference to one of the two phony political investigations that president trump wanted. and mr. mulvaney replies that he ll set up the meeting, consistent with the agreement that sondland explained he d reached with mr. mulvaney to condition a meeting on the investigations. but if there s any uncertainty, if there s any lingering questions about what this means, let s just question mick mulvaney under oath. so mulvaney also matters because we have heard several questions from this distinguished body of