encourage, suggest, but he used the word demand. it turns out during the course of his testimony he went beyond that prepared statement. and investigators were told by two sources familiar is that the president drew a direct line between the white house deliverables, this noelgz that there would be a meeting between presidents trump and zelensky, this delivery of nearly $400 million in security and aid money and to this demand that ukrainian officials open investigations into a number of things, burisma, the company on which hunter biden sat on the board of, the bidens, the 2016 election into crowd strike. and so basically what he s doing, he s telegraphing this quid pro quo that president trump and his allies say did not exist. the same quid pro quo that mick mulvaney the acting white house chief of staff openly admitted to in the white house briefing room before trying to walk it back a day later, chris. this gets to the heart of those who think trump is a
that the president was seeking recordings of joe biden talking about ukrainian corruption according to our sources, one of whom was a lawmaker president in the room, another source familiar with the testimony. and also, that that the ukrainian president zelensky was talking directly about barisma, was familiar. the implication with what it was president trump was seeking investigation into, barisma being the company hunter biden sat on the board of. kelly, do we have a response from the white house about that testimony? not specifically. the white house has been using the president s twitter feed as a means of giving a response. and the president has again referred to lieutenant colonel vindman as a never-trumper, which is of course using a very politically-charged political term to describe someone who is wearing the uniform of the united states. an employee here of not only the army, the branch he serves, but
to say, this is about what s happening in the united states. it s not about ukraine. and, please, let us stay out of this situation. josh, you ve been to the headquarters of burisma. vindman mentioned burisma, the gas company, in his testimony. it has not been the focus of a great deal of attention but this is a natural gas company, natural gas company, on which hunter biden sat on the board. how is this company responding to all of to being in the center of this news? yeah. i think it s fair to say that just a few weeks ago, no one in the united states really had heard of burisma. now, it s becoming more of a name we re talking about in the news because of these unfounded corruption allegations by president trump against vice president biden and his son. so we paid a visit to burisma, this gas company here in kiev and found they did not want to talk to us about what was going on. we visited a very non-descript office building they have here. nobody from the company was willing
energy firm where hunter biden sat on the board, the push to make volodymyr zelinsky commit to investigations of burisma and interference in the election showed how the official foreign policy of the united states was undercut by the efforts led by rudy giuliani. my ten short months in congress, it is not even noon and this is my most disturbing day in congress so far. reporter: news of the hold on usaid did not leave until august 29th, five weeks after the president s phone call with the ukrainian leader which they say undercut democrat claims of a quid pro quo. taylor s explosive claim, republicans accuse their colleagues of unfair tactics. democrats will not even allow republicans to have a copy of the transcripts from the witnesses we have interviewed. if we want to look at the transcript we have to go in and there has to be a democrat staffer.
text message revealed allegations of military aid for political favors, and accusation the trump administration strongly denies. sources familiar with the closed-door session tell fox news william taylor told congressional investigators there were two channels for policymaking on ukraine, one regular and one highly irregular. he described himself as a diplomat and so the regular channel went through traditional state department avenues and be a regular channel went through the president s people naming former special envoy kurt volcker, the president s personal attorney rudy giuliani and energy secretary rick perry. according to prepared remarks taylor explained the significance of donald trump of ukrainian probes into the last presidential election as well as the ukraine energy firmware hunter biden sat on the board, quote, the push to make him of his interfere in the election shows how the official policy of the united states was undercut by irregular efforts led by mister giuliani