Department brought Gordon Soundland the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union from speaking to three house committees informing him of that Decision Just hours before he was scheduled for a deposition today. Ambassador sondland is among the three diplomats who exchanged potentially damning Text Messages about a possible effort to leverage the government of ukraine last summer. And according to republican senator ron johnson sondland told him over the summer the release was contingent on ukraine pointing a prosecutor who would quote get to bottom of what happened in 2016. House intelligence chairman adam schiff made clear the administrations stonewalling represents obstruction of justice to him. The failure to produce this witness, the failure to produce these documents we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress, a coequal branch of government. In a tweet this morning the president took personal responsibility for the decision
Proxy. My strong feeling, too. Thank you, my friend. I appreciate it. Eek. I have congratulations to offer. Congratulations, you guys. We are getting a new boat. Not right away. We have to wait and see if, in fact, there is a conviction. If there is, look at what we are getting. Now when i first read this in the indictment i thought, oh, were getting a little sailboat thing. Its a catamaran and a number, i thought like a little training sailing boat. Full disclosure, that misconception on my part might be because i know nothing about boats. I do own a canoe, but i still dont even understand how to control that. If i tried to do it myself, i would go around in circles. The only way i can operate is if susan wants to paddle me around in which case i catch gigantic fish like that. Grain of salt here, i dont get boats. Im reading through this part of the indictment and it describes that we, the american taxpayers, are about to get a catamaran, to me, boat concepts, that seems no big deal.
In aid to ukraine. The president now says he talked to the ukrainian leader during that call about joe biden even though there is no evidence of wrong doing by the former Vice President or his son hunter. And note that reversal there by the president. Now he seems to be admitting it, even defending it, perhaps. This controversy overshadowing the president s speech here at the United Nations today before World Leaders. Trump set to address those leaders in just over an hour. We have Team Coverage on these stunning new developments this morning. Lets begin with our lauren fox. Shes on capitol hill. The seven freshman democrats notable in this oped in the Washington Post. They come from swing had districts where the perception had been that a vote for impeachment would be a vote too far, engage their reelection. It appears that calculus may be changing. Thats right. Its really been a Stunning Development over about the last 24 hours as weve seen a slew of freshman democrats coming out say
President trump says that he will soon send his president to saudi arabia. Perhaps targeting similar Oil Facilities in iran. President trump was careful today. He said that it sure looks like they were behind it. President trump were having some very strong studies done, but it certainly looking that way at this moment. Well let you know. As soon as we find out definitively, will let you know. Of the president stood in sharp contrast to his secretary of state. Mike pompeo, yesterday, saying definitively, iran was responsible. President trump says that he is not seeking war with iran. President trump i dont want war with anybody, but with all of that being said, wed certainly like to avoid it. President trump has not promised to saudi arabia that he will come to their defense. He says that the u. S. And saudis will have to sit down and work that out. He will meet with the iranian president , Hassan Rouhani next week. President trump well see what happens. I think they would like to make
Be at camp david as guests of the president , brought here to finalize a deal for pulling u. S. Troops out of afghanistan. Theyd be staying at the very same place as congresswoman liz cheney pointed out today that her father, the Vice President , president bush and other top officials gathered just days after new york and washington had been attacked on 9 11 to plan a response. At least that was the idea, which the president revealed in a tweet on saturday, in which he also rescinded the invitation, citing the Suicide Attack on thursday that killed an american soldier. Now, as you might imagine, the tweet raised a number of questions and criticisms. Why would the president invite the taliban to america days before the anniversary of 9 11 . And why to camp david of all places . Why would ehe have the presiden of afghanistan come as well when the taliban has refused to deal directly with the Afghan Government and has refused to stop attacks against that government . And why reveal anythi