sondland e-mailed mr. bret ball to ask him to brief with the aim of, quote, making the boss happy, the boss being the president, enough to authorize the investigation. ambassador sondland arrow kurt and i fwoernegotiated a stateme be delivered for our review in a day or two. the contents will hopefully make the boss happy enough to authorize an invitation. he s talking about the invitation for a white house oval office meeting which we know was much more critical and important than a sideline meeting at the u.n. yet, further evidence and i quote, everyone was in the loop. attorney general barr reportedly responded at some point there was a new york times article that was done and attorney general barr responded to that article by stating that he was aware of doj investigations into
department do the initial investigation here why? because bill barr turned it down. the same attorney general mentioned in that july 25th call said, there is nothing to see here. to there was no doj investigation, there was no special counsel investigation. it was like someone like ken starr handed us a package, saying, now, here s the evidence. you can take up a resolution because we ve done the investigative work. we had to do that work ourselves. they would have you believe that any subpoena you issue as pafrt your oversight responsibility, that down the road reveals evidence that leads you to embark on impeachment inquiry must be disregarded. that cannot be and is not the law. it would render the overwrite function meaningless. court after court that has looked at congress power to issue subpoenas have all reached the same conclusion, and that is, if you have power to
with if we re serious about getting to the truth issuing a subpoena for state department e-mails. if you ll pay attention to the slide, in the email sondland stated quote, i talked to zelensky just now. he is prepared to receive potus s call. we ll assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will turn over every stone. he would greatly appreciate a call prior to sunday so that he can put out some media about a friendly and productive call, no details. plul mulvan mr. mulvaney in the email acknowledging receipt and responds shortly. i asked the nsc to set up the call for tomorrow six days before president trump now infamous july 25th call in which he told president zelensky to conduct investigations into the bidens in the 2016 election. mr. sondland sent an email to the president s top aides updating them on the status of the scheme. again, quote, everyone was in the loop. on august 11th, ambassador
you can look into it, it sounds horrible. well, i would think that if they were honest about it, they d start a major investigation into the bidens. it s a very simple answer. if we feel there s corruption, like i feel there was in the 2016 campaign, there was tremendous corruption against me. if we feel there s corruption, we have a right to go to a foreign country. and by the way, likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens because what happened in china is just about as bad as what happened with with ukraine. the american people deserve to know what happened. the american people deserve know when they go to bed tonight that there s a president that has their interests in mind that will put the national security of the country above his own political self-interest. the american people deserve answers, and yes, it is still a good time to call ambassador bolton to testify.
mr. chief justice. counsel. words that just came out of the manager s mouth, open for business. i ll tell you who was open for business, you know who was open for business? when the vice president of the united states was charged by the then president of the united states with developing policies to avoid and assist in removing corruption from ukraine and his son was on the board of a company that was under investigation for ukraine, and you re concerned about what rudy giuliani, the president s lawyer was doing when he was over trying to determine what was going on in ukraine, and by the way, it s a little bit interesting to me and my colleague the deputy white house counsel referred to this, it s a little bit ironic to me that you re going to be questioning