That was the only person i could think of. Prior to working for the yurt council worked for Ranking Member nunes, is that right . I only found that out after the fact. I wondered why i was being asked about him, so i looked it up. You cautioned us on dangers that members of this committee pedaling any Conspiracy Theories that could benefit russia, i want to ask if you heard the nameless parness who was questioning Rudy Giuliani about the Conspiracy Theories. Are you aware he was indicted october 10 for making foreign contributions to republicans in u. S. Elections . I am aware of the reports, yes. Are you aware of yesterdays daily beast story reporting the indicted Ukranian Parn as is working with nunes on his overseas investigations . I am not aware of that. I ask unanimous consent to put in the daily beast story from yesterday. First two paragraphs reading lev parnas, indicted associate, helped arrange calls. Nunes aid derek harvey participated in meetings which were arranged to help
so their job is to go out and collect information about what our leadership is thinking, what they re planning to do and how they re going to execute those actions. there is no bigger target in the world for policies, plans and intents and information than the president of the united states. he is the crown jewel of all targets. so let s put aside for a moment the question of whether or not the president is actually using a cell phone from the oval office and think about the president speaking to someone else in a country like ukraine, who is using a cell phone. right now we know that rudy giuliani is supposedly doing that. we have reason to believe from the phone records that he has talked to the president from there before and we know that gord gordon sondland did that as well. ukraine operates almost with complete freedom there. rudy giuliani is known as a close adviser and confidante
do it. he ll do anything you ask. i have a clear recollection these statements were made. i believe my colleagues also knew what was going on. no notes. is it corroboration that makes it strong testimony? is. the reason he is so credible is because all of these are hearsay. holmes actually heard trump and gord gordon sondland interpret those to him after the phone call. the fact that he doesn t take notes is another exception to hear hearsay. in the days prior, there was a lot of talk that this is all second hand. holmes actually heard or saw these events himself.
meet it. how did ambassador sondland get there? this is not a man who had any qualifications, except one. he wrote a check for $1 million. and that tells us about what s happening in washington. we have a criminal living in the white house. ambassador sondland by his own words told us, that everyone was in the loop. that means it is a criminal enterprise, engaged in by the president, from what we heard today, the vice president, the secretary of state and the chief of staff. i want you to extrapolate everything that we ve been seeing on capitol hill. how much you think impeachment is going to play into 2020. and who you think won the night of the candidates? look, in terms of impeachment, i think it s going to be difficult for the democrats running for president, they re all on the same page. no one is saying anything differently as it relates to the impeachment process. and that i think from what
engage in a back channel. the day before, kurt volker took it like, go talk to rudy, if you don t believe me. he did not see it as an order. sondland saying, no, i took it as direct order. that creates quite a divide between the two witnesses on the same side. ambassador sondland is involved in another point made by david holmes about that phone call that happened at that kiev restaurant. here is that moment. so you heard president trump ask ambassador sondland is he going to do the investigation? yes, sir. what was ambassador sondland s response? he said, oh, yeah, he s going