ukraine as part of their portfolio. it was very disturbing to them and rightfully so. so vindman also writes about the july 10th meeting between t top. he says, on july 10th, 2019, the secretary of the national security and defense council for ukraine visited washington, d.c. for a meeting with national security adviser bolton. ambassadors volker and sondland also attended along with energy secretary rick perry. the meeting proceeded well until the ukrainians broached the subject of a meeting between the two presidents. the ukrainians saw this meeting as critically important in order to solidify the support of their most important international partner. ambassador sondland started to speak about ukraine delivering specific investigations in order to secure the meeting with the president, at which time ambassador bolton cut the meeting short. following this meeting, there was a scheduled debriefing during which ambassador sondland emphasized the importance that ukraine deliver the
about something that happened in july. this is july 10th. it s in advance, that means, about two weeks in advance of the president s call with the president of ukraine. he says, quote, on july 10th, the secretary of the national security and defense counsel for ukraine visited washington for a meeting with national security adviser john bolton. ambassadors kurt volcker and gordon sondland also attended along with energy secretary, rick perry. the three amigos, right? the meeting proceeded well until the ukrainians broached the subject of a meeting between the two presidents. ambassador gordon sondland started speaking about ukraine delivering specific investigations in order to secure the meeting with president trump, at which time ambassador bolton cut the meeting short. following this meeting, there was a scheduled debriefing, during which ambassador gordon sondland emphasized the importance that ukraine deliver the investigations into the 2016 election, the bidens, and burisma.
the policy on ukraine. in the spring of 2019, i became aware of outside influencers promoting a false narrative of ukraine inconsistent with the consensus views of the interagency. this narrative was harmful to u.s. government policy. and then he gets very specific about something that happened in july. this is july 10th. it s in advance, that means, about two weeks in advance of the president s call with the president of ukraine. he says, quote, on july 10th, the secretary of the national security and defense counsel for ukraine visited washington for a meeting with national security adviser john bolton. ambassadors kurt volcker and gordon sondland also attended along with energy secretary, rick perry. the three amigos, right? the meeting proceeded well until the ukrainians broached the subject of a meeting between the two presidents. ambassador gordon sondland started speaking about ukraine delivering specific investigations in order to secure the meeting with
investigations of burisma and alleged ukrainian interference in the 2016 elections, and that s what the irregular, informal part of u.s. policy towards ukraine was trying to achieve. this is where taylor then starts to put it together that it s not just a meeting with the white house that is conditioned on those investigations, it s also the military aid from the united states that s being made contingent on ukraine coughing up these investigations that rudy giuliani was demanding. taylor says, quote, on july 10th in kiev i met with president zelensky s chief of staff and his foreign policy adviser who said they learned from rudy giuliani that a phone call between president trump and president zelensky was unlikely to happen. they were alarmed and disappointed. days later in a regular national security council secure conference call, taylor says, quote, i heard a staff person from the office of management and budget say there was a hold on security assistance, meaning military aid to u
talking to jerry nadler what the expectation is, what happens over the next couple of days? most difficult thing for nadler has been the lack of cooperation. they re getting fought on everything, the subpoena, every witness. so he d had to assemble this piece by piece. the big break through was getting mueller to come up there and at least talk about the parameters of the report he s given. as most americans probably most member of congress have not read that report. but you think that letter last night from the department of justice to robert mueller telling him the parameters is significant? i do. mueller sent the letter to the justice department. the letter came back. he asked them, he said what are the parameters and he said that on july 10th? on july 10th.