july 20th, july 28th morrison tells taylor what happened on the trump/zelensky call. august 21st, talks to taylor. october 22nd, september 1st morrison tells taylor what sondland told morrison. and september 7th morrison tells taylor what sondland told trump and september 8th no where is there where the president of the united states told sondland. 13 conversations. i ll get to you. i ll give you a conversation in a second. but 13 rveconversations. 13 conversations from their star witness. you re their closing witness and he can t remember a call from a guy he works with every single day. why?
originally backed president bush in the campaign. he distanced himself from president trump at one point after president trump attacked the conn family after the democratic national convention. after president trump won the election, sondland threw a million dollars into the inaugural committee according to various reports, looking to get some sort of plum assignment, maybe an ambassadorship. what the republicans on the committee, what the white house will be really honing in on is what ambassador sondland said in that amended testimony on october 22nd, where he said i always believed that suspending aid to ukraine was ill-advised although i did not know, i still do not know when or by whom the aid was suspended. beginning of september 2019, in the absence of credible explanation for the absence of aid, i presumed, presumed the aid suspension was linked to the proposed anti-corruption
sondland what president trump thought about ukraine. ambassador sondland responded that president trump cares more about the investigations of biden, which giuliani was pressing for. at the time, i gave my deposition on october 22nd, i was not aware of this information. i m including it here for completeness. so we learn of that story just a couple of days ago. and ambassador bill taylor s testimony at the first impeachment hearing, right? it s kind of a dramatic reveal. a member of his staff coming forward to tell him of something that the ambassador didn t know about before. which is that there had been a phone call between president trump personally and ambassador gordon sondland, who called the president from a restaurant in ukraine on his cell phone on july 26th, the day after president trump had that call with the ukrainian president. that s the call that has basically led to these impeachment proceedings. in that call on july 26th, taylor s staff member says he was able to hea
call, click, or visit a store today. a member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. ambassador sondland told president trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. at the time i gave my deposition on october 22nd, i was not aware of this information. i am including it here for completeness. welcome back to a.m. joy. the impeachment inquiry continues full steam ahead this very hour with mark sandy, the first official from the white house office of management and budget to defy the white house, testifying behind closed doors. but the biggest bombshell of the public hearing so far came from ambassador william taylor on
my staff asked ambassador sondland what president trump thought about ukraine. ambassador sondland responded that president trump cares more about the investigations of biden, which giuliani was pressing for. at the time i gave my deposition on october 22nd, i was not aware of this information. i am including here for completeness. so we learn of that story just a couple of days ago, and ambassador bill taylor s testimony at the first impeachment hearing. right? it s kind of dramatic reveal. a member of his staff coming forward to tell him of something that the ambassador didn t know about before, which is that there had been a phone call between president trump personally and ambassador gordon sondland who called the president from a restaurant in ukraine on his cellphone on july 26th, the day after president trump had that call with the ukrainian president. that s the call that has basically led to these impeachment proceedings. in that call on july 26th, taylor s staff member says