biden formally announced his bid for a the democratic nomination for president. then about aatom week later on 3rd, president trump spoke with president putin on the telephone. one senior state department official testified that the conversation between president trumpen and president putin included a discussion of ukraine.cu third, on may 9th, mr. giuliani told the new york times he intended tork travel to ukraine behalf of his client, president trump in order to quote, meddle in an congestion, unquote. but after public backlash, and apparent push back from the ukrainians mr. giuliani cancelledra his trip the next d claiming that president zelensky was surrounded byes enemies of president trump. at a critical may 23rd meeting in the oval office, president trump said that ukraine was corrupt and tried to take him down in 2016. the same false narrative pushed
bill taylor and ambassador sondland where he says it would be crazy we re conditioning military aid on those investigations. explain for our viewers how you got those and what the importance is of getting more documents like that? it was thedo courage of peopo to come forward and provide information that the white house said notio to provide. ambassador kurt volker provided those terms. david holmes, of course, heard the republican concerns all the wayth over in ukraine this was n based on hearsay and he raised his hand actually i heard the he president ask ambassador sondlandam on july 26th about h investigations. so we have shown time and time again the different acts that are notts in dispute. that s a theme today. there are a number of acts that are not in dispute. not disputed that president trump fired the ambassador who was trying to clean up ukraine. not disputed that president trump pulled vice president pence back from going to ukraine. not disputed that president trump ask
that his demand for a foreign country to interfere in our election is wrong. in fact he repeatedly called on ukraine to investigate vice president biden hisra rival. these and others actions by th president and his associates, demonstrate that his determination to solicit foreign interfence in our election i continues today. it didn t end with russia s support for trump in 2016 which president trump invited by asking forp his foent be hacke by russia and it did not end when his ukrainian scheme was ai exposed in september of this year. president trump also engaged once this investigation began in an unprecedented effort to obstruct the inquiry and i look forward to answering your questions about thatwe unprecedented obstruction. but in conclusion i want to say that the intelligence committee hasat produced to you a nearly 300-page report. and i am grateful that you have offered me the opportunity today
i m glad claire has been tying we re watching live r coverage of the impeachment hearing. while each e side s version of closing argument, it still is startling. every time you hear the fact based case on the democratic side and then you see the antics and the drama, and the tantrum on the right, it is so apparent that, you know, what all of you say, when you don t have the facts you fightt the process. if you don t have the process th you run to the fox news camera. we have a terrific contrast here with the inspector general s report and the impeachment. imagine barack obama, they had that meeting in the senate i should we talk about russian interference and mitchan mcconnl says no. imagine barack obama says in the middle of 2016 russians are involved we think they are involved in president trump s um campaign. that s what president trump is trying the togn do. that s the contrast here you had onere president who was in char
to try to resolve the conflict in the east. now the day after this phone call president trump sought to ensure thatto president zelensk got the message. on july 26th, u.s. officials met with president zelensky and other ukrainian officials in kiev and president zelensky mentioned that president trump had broughtio up some quote ver sensitive issues, unquote. after that meeting ambassador sondland had a private one-on-one meeting with president zelensky s top aide. during which ambassador sondlana said that they probably discussed tissue of investigations. at lunch right after that with mr. holmes and two other state department officers, ambassador sondland pulled out a cell phone and called president trump. somewhat shocked, mr. holmes recounted the conversation that followed. i heard ambassador sondland greet the president and explain that he was calling from kiev.