transcripts for ambassador sondland and volker. the first testimony from officials who were part of president trump s core group. sondland revised his testimony he submitted to the committee on monday. he says after he testified, he then remembered a conversation he had had with a ukrainian official but left out. that official he remembers telling him u.s. aid to ukraine won t likely resume. asked about a meeting with secretary perry and kurt volker sondland said the president directed him to talk to his personal attorney saying he wasn t even specific what he wanted us to talk to giuliani about. he kept saying talk to rudy. but he also says on september later in september he called president trump directly and asked him point blank what do you want from ukraine to which
behalf of the mexican government? what are they prepared to do? so far the response has been typical. they said the authorities are making a lot of promises, that sort of thing. so it s to be seen. experience will tell us that they will go unpunished and things will continue as usual. we are really hoping that the u.s. maybe gets involved. we know that president trump offered his help as well as senator kramer from north dakota so we re hopeful that at some point the mexican government will come to its senses and in some way accept some help. bill: daniel, how are you and the rest of your family
the identity of the whistleblower. i support the whistleblower laws. you want people to come forward. he should be treated fairly. president trump should also be treated fairly, sandra. what we have right now is a partisan impeachment. there is no precedent to that anywhere in the history of the united states. so i think the whistleblower should come forward to testify. in person under oath. so people can then assess the credibility, the believability, can challenge the whistleblower. this is not something that needs to be done through emails or behind an attorney. needs to be done in person under oath. sandra: i hear you abiding by the whistleblower laws and protecting the whistleblower s identity. senator rand paul and the president, are they wrong? the president has a right to be able to have his people directly question the whistleblower to know who that person is. what their motives might be and if they are believable and credible in direct questioning
interesting about everything you ve said. what you put your finger on in kentucky. maybe it was an issue with this republican governor that he was unpopular and unable to get across the finish line with 4500 outstanding votes. if he didn t talk about donald trump and he didn t talk about impeachment what in the world are your democratics colleagues doing in washington are they listening? if that s what you believe are they listening to what his campaign is? they re duel tracking this. in washington they re taking seriously their role of accountability and oversight. but out on the campaign trail, that s not what the presidential candidates are talking about and what congressional and senate candidates are talking about and not what the voters are talking about. it is possible to do a dual track. bill: i find that rather revealing. again, congress does have a role to play here. i think they are focusing on that role. and the presidential candidates i think are very smart to say le
it relates to ukraine. as for u.s. ambassador to the e.u. gordon sondland he recounted a phone call with president trump about ukraine aid. sondland described it, as i recall he was in a very bad mood, a very quick conversation. he said i want nothing, no quid pro quo, i want zelensky to do the right thing. sondland testifies by the beginning of september 2019 i presumed that the aid suspension had become linked to the proposed anti-corruption statement to be made by president zelensky. a key house democrat offering this reaction. it s extremely important, it s one more confirmation the whistleblower was correct in the allegations he brought forward and that had been reviewed by the inspector general. all of this is getting deeper and deeper and much more difficult for the president. all eyes of president trump