haven t seen it yourselves. i m asking for your takes on the fly here. but again from the stone trial, and gates testimony, he is highlighting just how extensively stone told the campaign and this is prior to the first wikileaks campaign of emails stolen by russia, prior to that release july 20 tw2nd t they should be expecting drops that would help trump and he should expect a call after that drop. and what s the significance here of stone communicating or getting information from someone that these drops intended to influence the campaign and emails stolen by russia, who s getting heads-up about them in advance? significant in the broader investigation? well, i mean, i would say that, you know, the significance is it s yet another example of senior trump officials having awareness of this damaging
we re back now with frank, laura, and harry. so frank, let s talk about we re getting a sense of what was going on in the background leading up to that now infamous trump-zelensky call. here he is describing the conversation he had a few days before the call, okay? he said, later on july 20 i had a phone conversation with ambassador sondland while he was on a train from paris to london. ambassador sondland told me that he had recommended to president zelensky that he use the phrase i will leave no stone unturned with regard to investigations when president zelensky spoke with president trump. also on july 20 i had a phone conversation with mr. danyliuk during which he conveyed to me that president zelensky did not want to be used as a pawn in a u.s. reelection campaign. the next day i texted both ambassadors volker and sondland about president zelensky s concern.
background leading up to that now-infamous trump/zelensky call. here he is describing the conversation he had a few days before the call, okay? he said, later on july 20 i had a phone conversation with ambassador sondland while he was on a train from paris to london. ambassador sondland told me he had recommended to president zenls can zelensky that he would use the phrase i will leave no stone unturned. also on july 20 i had a phone conversation with mr. dannyliuk during which he conveyed to me that president zelensky did not want to be used as a pawn in a u.s. reelection campaign. the next day i texted both ambassadors volker and sondland about president zelensky s concern. this illustrates the degree to which they were feeding zelensky the language to use with trump to try to butter him up.
in country. since november 8. the day i got elected, from there until july 20, the market went through the roof. do you know why it went through the roof? because they got rid of obama, they got rid ofme. the 401(k)s would go down the tubes. they would go down 70 or 80 and destroy the country. i think they want to impeach me because it s the only way they re going to win. they have nothing. they had a phone call chfwhich perfect. all they have is a whistleblower. the second whistleblower hot kircht
matter tell the washington post that it centers on ukraine. nbc news has not confirmed that ukraine is at the center of the issue. the white house did not immediately respond to a request for comment. the post, citing two former u.s. officials previously reported that the complaint was made by a u.s. intelligence official who was alarmed by a promise that the president made to a foreign leader in a phone conversation. trump spoke with the new president of ukraine on july 20 5th. the whistleblower complaint was filed less than three weeks later. ukraine is significant because of reporting that the president was withholding military aid to the country while at the same time trump s personal lawyer rudy giuliani was pushing for the ukrainian government to investigate democratic presidential front runner joe biden and his son hunter. the compliments of these two