Card witness. Has already revised his initial testimony in the president s dealings with ukraine. Sondland has arrived and will be before the committee in a moment. Late yesterday we had a hearing that lasted deep into the night. Well see how far we go today. Welcome back to continuing coverage on the fox news channel. Im bill hemmer. Good morning, bill. Im sandra smith. Lawmakers are expected to double down on a phone call with the president. Team fox coverage back with us now. Chris wallace, bret baier, Martha Maccallum and bret baier. Well be with you guys throughout the entire day. Ken, we have an oping statement from Gordon Sondland. There are a lot of skipped areas in 23 pages. Opening statement will last at
least 10 minutes. From what youve been able to glean off of this, in a quick speed read what do you see as critical for sondland . Right. It looks as if there may be a bombshell or two in this. Thats what were looking for. Lets see what he says. He could revise this up to the
The Ukrainian Government adopted a unilateral position in favor of one candidate. More than that, certain oligarchs certainly with the approval of the Political Leadership funded this candidate or female candidate to be more precise. And if there was ever any doubt about who benefits from this unfounded theory put forward by President Trump and his associates, President Putin made it clear very recently when he said thank god no one is accusing us anymore of interfering in u. S. Elections. Now theyre accusing ukraine. In the face of clear evidence, not only from Intelligence Community experts, but from his own National Security team that russia, not ukraine, interfered in the 2016 election for the benefit of donald trump, President Trump still pressed the Ukrainian Government to announce an investigation into this Conspiracy Theory. Why . Because it would help his own
political standing. President trump even saukt sought to with hold an Oval Office Meeting from the president of ukraine
personal political gain. and you have to look at all of the evidence in context as a whole. prior to the call, the president had removed the former ambassador maria va onvich to spearhead his corrupt agenda in ukraine. secretary perry, ambassador sondland and ambassador volker, all of whom attended president zelensky s inauguration on may 20th. all political appointees, they proved to be more than willing to engage in what doctor hill later described as an improper domestic political errand for the president. on april 21st, president zelensky won the ukrainian election with 73% of the vote. he had two primary platforms to resolve the war in the east with russia and to root out corruption. that same day, president trump called to congratulate him on his win. even though the white house press release following the call stated that president trump
powers of his office for personal political gain. and you have to look at all of the evidence in context as a whole. prior to the call, the president had removed the former ambassador marie yovanovitch to clear theor way for his three hand-picked agents to spearhead his corrupt agenda in ukraine. secretary perry, ambassador sondland and ambassador kurt volker, all of whom attended president zelensky s inauguration on may 20th, all political appointees, they proved to be more than willing to engaging what dr. hill later described as an improper domestic political errand for the president. on april 21st president zelensky won the ukrainian election with 73% of the vote. he t had two primary platforms. to resolve the war in the east with russia. and to root out corruption. that same day president trump called toe congratulate him on his win. even though the white house press release following the call
ambassador marie yovanovitch in making my first official visit to ukraine for a u.s. navy visit to the strategic black sea port of odessa. the reason i raise these prior ukraine activities, the meetings in brussels, my visit to odessa, is to emphasize that ukraine has been part of my portfolio from my very first days as the u.s. ambassador. any claim that i somehow muscled my way into the ukraine relationship is simply false. during the zelensky inauguration on may 20th, the u.s. delegation developed a very positive view of the ukraine government. we were impressed by president zelensky s desire to promote a stronger relationship with the united states. we admired his commitment to reform and we were excited about the possibility of