had to make the statement and he had to want to do it. and by that point, did you understand that the statement related to the biden in 2016 investigations? i think i did, yes. and that was essentially a condition for the security assistance to be released? i understood that that is what ambassador sondland believed. after speaking with president trump? what he represented. you said it gave me a sinking feeling. why was that? if we are all on september 7th, the end of the fiscal year, september 30th, these are one year dollars. the dod and the department of state funds. we only had so much time. in fact, because congress imposed a 15-day notification requirement on the state department funds, september 7th, september 30th, that really mean
opening the barisma investigation. on september 7th, ambassador sondland had a telephone call with trump and asked him what he wanted from ukraine. according to morrison he spoke with sondland after the call, trump insisted that there was no quid pro quo and president zelensky must personally announce the opening of the investigation and he should want to do it and sondland said if president zelensky didn t agree to a public statement about the investigations the u.s. and ukraine would be at a stalemate, meaning it would not receive the much-needed security assistance. morrison had a sinking feeling after the call. as he realized that the ask was now directed at zelensky himself and not the prosecutor general as sondland relayed to a senior aide in warsaw september 1st. while president trump claimed there was no quid pro quo his insistence that zelensky himself must publicly announce the
believe and the irregular line is pompeo is essentially throwing giuliani under the bus at this stage. he wants to be in the regular, legal path and not the irregular one. so part of what taylor says involving morrison in his opening statement. on september 7th, i had a conversation with mr. morrison in which he described a phone conversation earlier that day between ambassador sondland. according to mr. morrison, the president told ambassador sondland that he was not asking for a quid pro quo and he asked him to go to a microphone say he was opening investigations of biden and 2016 elections interference and that president zelensky should want to do this himself. how damaging is this for trump that morrison would back this? very. as if ambassador taylor s statement and testimony wasn t
it. i went back yesterday and actually read what was said, and there is. there s a lot of secondhand information. reporter: other republicans continue to dodge questions. do you have any concerns with that, as in bill taylor s testimony? sir, did you want to weigh in about the bill taylor testimony? do you have any concerns about what he said? democrats say the impeachment inquiry is pressing ahead with plans to interview a senior state department official on saturday behind closed doors. at least two more next week, including a top national security council official, tim morrison, who referenced taylor s testimony. taylor testified on september 7th, morris relayed a phone call between the president and ambassador sondeland in which the president said he was not asking for a quid pro quo, but wanted president zelensky of ukraine to go to a microphone and say he s opening investigation investigations of biden in 2016 election interference and that president zelensky should want to do
rantings. we need to pause and remember this. rudy guiliani is one of the nation s most revered and celebrated, famous u.s. attorneys. and it is clear listening to him talk these days that he has forgotten more about the way the justice department operates than most people in their lives ever know, with emphasis on the word forgotten. he keeps inventing these policies and timetables that don t actually exist and have no bearing on bob mueller s investigation. just to be clear, they ve been setting timetables since thanksgiving, it was christmas, then spring, then june 12 after the korean summit, then july 4th, then september 1st. now we know mueller is taking some testimony related to roger stone. yep. on september 7th, i believe. that means there s no way they re going to be done with a report in the next three weeks, just to state an obvious issue