statement and how this statement came about. . the statement was never released by the ukrainian government. but did president zelensky and his aides understand it to be if i come out publicly and say, yes, i will investigate burisma, ei the bidens, ie president etrump political opponent at the moment, then i will get my military assistance? why would he be compelled to do it in the first place and why didn t he do it? from reading of the text messages it seems far clearer that what was at stake was not the military aid in exchange for the assistance, it may have been an oval office meeting. it may have been they would come to the united states to meet with trump. if they put that statement out, it would where have made that meeting a lot easier. the interesting thing about what the ukrainians did is they realized how sensitive of it was to get more deeply involved in american politics and ultimately decided against doing this.
of any kind and quickly suggest they stop discussing the matter over text message. that last exchange happened september 9th, the same date intel community inspector general told the house and senate intelligence committees about the whistleblower complaint. the military aid was released two days later. so, gene robinson, that s a lot to digest and reading by me so i ll let you talk now. and you read it so well. what do you see in those text messages? what s the take way there? this is not rocket science. it s very clear. they were conditioning an improved relationship with ukraine, a white house visit and this military aid on two things, zelensky well, he comes out and gives a statement about two things. they want an investigation into this conspiracy theory about the origin of the of meddling in the 2016 election, somehow
telling taylor that trump, quote, has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind and suggest they stop discussing the matter over text message. that last exchange happened september 9th, the same day the intelligence community inspector general told the house and senate intel committees that the whistleblower complaint, the military aid military aid was released two days later. let s bring in josh letterman. i read a ton of text. i know it s a lot for people to digest that the hour of the day. take us through who these players are and what you found significant about what was released last night in these committees. we ve got these in a document dump and we ve been going through them all night to analyze them. what they show is that this effort by trump to get the ukrainians to get involved in investigating the bidesens was bigger than giuliani. it involved a handful of people