President zelensky decided that they were not going to issue thatt statement that Rudy Giuliani wanted to include burisma in the 2016 elections, there was no white house meeting. It soon became clear to them that the Security Assistance was also at risk. And that took on a renewed importance for them. Well, following the 25th call, the t july 25th call, ambassador sondland and volker worked closely with mr. Giuliani and the ukrainians to help draft a statement that the president could make, president zelensky. Wasnt that right . Yes. And the report said they worked closely and there were also phone calls with the white house around the same time that they werear working closely. Do you know what that statement was supposed tou say according to mr. Giuliani and the u. S. Officials . Well, the key difference is that it had to include that ukraine would do the investigations of burisma which equalled theic Biden Investigatn in the 2016 ukraine
interference. But was there concern about doi
Of law and our fierce constitutional patriotism. Now, it looked like President Trump might get away with his ukraine shakedown. After all most americans didnt know anything about it and the few who learned of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. President trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I count 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes. There was 17. And i counted dozen Career State Department and National Security officials who served republican and democratic president s alike over decades who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security council staffers, hill, vindman, morrison and maguire came
forward to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as soon as they learned of it, didnt they mr. Goldman. Morrison and vindman went to
Ambitions. Our selfrespect. Our love of freedom and the rule of law. Our fierce constitutional patriotism. Now, it looked like President Trump might get might get away with his ukraine shakedown. After all, most americans didnt know anything about it. And the few who learned of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. Fr President Trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I count 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes, there were 17. And i count a dozen Career State Department and National Security officials who served republican and democratic president s alike, over decades, who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security councils staffers, hill,
vindman, morrison, and mcguyer, came forward to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as so
to record his grave contemporaneous concerns about the president s conduct. mr. goldman, what were the events that led mr. kent to draft notes to his file? there were several. there was a conversation at the end of june where several american officials had indicated to president zelensky that he needed to go forward with these investigations. there was one on august 16th, i recall, that he talked about. but you bring up a very important point. which is all of these state department witnesses in particular, and frankly almost all of the witnesses other than ambassador sondland, took unbelievable meticulous notes. i would have dreamed for a witness like that as a prosecutor. and it makes for a very clear and compelling record and clear and compelling evidence that is based on contemporaneous notes. do we have mr. kent s note in this process. we have no state department records including notes and
emolument opportunities to unqualified individuals in order to influence government officials is corruption, plain and simple. mr. castor, here is another key question. given that, one, burisma had a reputation of being a corrupt company, two, obama s own state department was concerned about hunter biden serving on burisma board at the same time that vice president biden was acting as the point person to ukraine, and, three, obama s assistant attorney general said in a similar scheme what that that corruption that there was corruption plain and simple, do you think then it is understandable, reasonable, and acceptable for president trump to ask the ukrainian president to look into the hunter biden/burisma potential corruption scheme?