conversation with the president where the president said, you know, he was trying to get clarity on whether there was a some sort of a holding up of the aid to try to pressure ukraine on investigations. and the president said i want nothing, i want nothing, no quid pro quo. and then something about wanting ukraine to do the right thing. the words quid pro quo were not part of the public vernacular on this at that point. when the president was briefed on this when when he spoke to gordon sondland. it s a notable phrase. and it just any pinpointing of clarity we can get about where the president was in all this is significant. any sense of the detail in which he was informed when he was told about this in august? no, and we addressed that in the story. it s not clear how much cipollone and eisenberg got into with him. it s possible they presented only top lines. i do not believe they told him who the whistle-blower is. we have no reporting indicating that. and based on the fact a
CNN Erin Burnett OutFront November 27, 2019 00:16:15
archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
so damning and then you have the president telling gordon sondland, listen, there s no quid pro quo. he s trying to himself get in front of this story and why would he offer this information, no quid pro quo and just automatically on this phone call, and now i think we know why because he was aware of the contents of this whistle-blower complaint and wasn t aware of some of the connections this whistle-blower was making. more and nor information coming out. drip, drip, drip, drip. thank you very much. a secretary of state playing games when it comes to testifying on the impeachment probe. when the timing is right all good things happen. a trump biographer now working for michael bloomberg. why does he think that that is the best bet to beat trump? hello. the united explorer card hooks me up.
each other to degrade our institutions and the democrat see. hill said that on camera. bolton, though, is still hiding behind twitter and still tech incomely doing the president s bidding because he s refusing to testify in the impeachment investigation and to be clear on two big points here. one, bolton has a lot to say about what trump did and what trump knew and when he knew it. bolton was in the know and you don t need to take it from me. dr. hill said that ambassador bolton referred to this deal as this is a drug deal. ambassador bolton told me that i am not part of the this whatever drug deal that mull vainy and sondland are cooking up. i heard ambassador bolton express to taylor and tim morrison his frustration about mr. giuliani s influence with the president, making clear there was nothing he could do about it. did you tell ambassador bolton about this conversation, as well? i reached out to him, as well
explain what you mean. sure. to your point about congress, this briefing took place at a moment when sipiloni and eisenberg were arguing they didn t think they could have the whistle-blower complaint ask they were covered by executive privilege and they were seeking an opinion from the justice department s legal office and the justice department said they didn t have to share it and they didn t, but to your point, congress ended up finding out anyway, but he found out about this complaint existing prior to a conversation that gordon sondland testified to congress that he had with the president about questions about this aid being withheld and the president said to sondland there s no quid pro quo. that s according to sondland s testimony. that s very specific language and that was language that was not part of the public discussion around this aid being withheld at that time when they had this conversation in the beginning of september. very crucial because as you
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.