enclosing the call, president trump told senator johnson that we are reviewing it now referring to the security assistance and guess what? you will probably like my final decision, he told that to senator johnson on august 31st. this statement strongly suggest that that president trump was already leaning toward lifting the aid. separately, on september 9th, president trump spoke by phone with ambassador sondland. ambassador sondland asked the president what do you want from ukraine? the president respond i want nothing, i want no quid pro quo, i want zelensky to do the right thing. in addition, senior ukrainian government officials denied any awareness of the language between u.s. security assistance and investigations. these denials are persuasive because if there was an orchestrated scheme to pressure ukraine by withholding security assistance, one would think the pause on security assistance would have been clearly communicated to the ukrainians.
sinking feeling? thinking feeling, correct. he went and talked to the lawyers at the direction of ambassador bolton. correct. and mr. goldman, ambassador taylor also testified that he concluded that the military aid was conditioned on the zelensky announcing the investigations and he testified that this was illogical, crazy, and wrong. is that right? that s what ambassador taylor testified to, yes. my colleagues have also pointed out that on september 9th, a text message from sondland, crystal clear that there is no quid pro quo. mr. goldman, am i correct in that ambassador sondland has now testified that prior to sending his text, he himself came to believe that the aide was conditioned on the announcement of investigations? yes. ambassador sondland s testimony revealed two things that were precisely false, that were not
true in the text message, including that there was no quid pro quo of any kind when he testified and we saw the video earlier that they are absolutely assuredly was as it related to the white house meeting. this september 7 call andy september 9th text occurred after the press reports, that is after the press reports that president trump is conditioning military aid on investigations of his political rivals, is that correct? yes. this text occurred after ambassador sondland relayed the message to president zelensky. mr. goldman, the investigative committee receive any other evidence relevant to the credibility of the president s assertion that there was no quid pro quo? received a lot of evidence and all of the evidence points to the fact that there was a quid pro quo. thank you. i yield. mr. chairman, i have unanimous consent request.
those excuses. the first excuse offered by president trump is that the aid was ultimately released and president trump met with mr. zelensky. we heard it today. the challenge with that, though, as an excuse is the aid was only released after president trump got caught doing the scheme. on september 9th the committees of this house started their investigation and announced they were investigating his conduct with regard to ukraine. two days later is when he released the aid. he also there was a news article that we ll talk about in a moment by the washington post on september 5th exposing his scheme. it was only after that that he met with president zelensky not in the white house but in new york. another excuse offered. the president was motivated by general corruption concerns. and again the evidence shows that is not true that that s what caused him to withhold the aid. president zelensky was elected on an anti-corruption platform and a reform candidate.
offered by the president. i would like to briefly talk about those ex cus. the first excuse offered by president trump is that the aid was ultimately released and president trump met with mr. zelensky. we heard it today. theea challenge with that, thou, as an excuse is the aid was only released after president trump got caught doing the scheme. on september 9th the committees of this house started their investigation andst announced ty were investigating his conduct with regard to ukraine. two days later as when he released the aid. and there also was a news article which we ll talk about in aic moment by the washingto post on september 5th ex sploezing hsploe spoezing his scheme. and after thathi he met with president zelensky not at the white house butky in new york. then the president was motivated by general corruption concerns. and byagain, the evidence shows that is not true that that s what caused him to withhold the aid. president zelensky in fact was elected on an anti-corru