what s striking about bolton. well can i get legal for a second? get legal then we ll bring garrett in. this is where knowledge overlaps with intent. they say ignorance is no excuse, no defense in the law. but ignorance taking it a long way. but it can help you if you can reasonably state, particularly in the government context, i was somewhere in the chain of command, i heard about something, i filed it in, they said it was take ben care of. that happens a lot and sometimes, there are rumors and misunderstandin misunderstandings. you are pinpointing why these lawyers who had information knew enough that they should have been on the hook to potentially have done more. why mr. bolton knew enough, mr. trump and jugiuliani appear tha they know more. so this is where the republican attacks on here say and were you in the room double back to oh, bring the people who were in the
bribery plot so this is going to get very hot potentially for some individuals. and vindman did correct himself from a demand and requirement, making it sound very clearly like in his view, it was. he also ratcheted it up. all right. i m told we are going to sneak in a quick break, that we have time to do that. they re taking some votes, but don t worry, you won t miss anything. coming up, the afternoon session, stay with us. coming up, the afternoon session, stay with us. the day after you appeared for your deposition, lieutenant colonel, president trump called you a never trumper. would you call yourself a never trumper? representative, i d call myself never partisan. do you have any political motivations for your appearance here today? none. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. itso chantix can help you quit slow turkey.
no. in fact, sondland tomorrow is going to be cross examined by the fact he said well trump s a business man, if he s going to dwif somebody something, he wants thome write a check for it. hello, that is fact pattern of bribe bry. trump could not guilty. zelensky needed trump. he needed his approval desperately. he had just gotten elected. russia is breathing down their neck. killing their people. strangling them out of existence. he has to have america. and trump knows this. and trump leverages the fact that he has to have them by saying you got to give me something i want and it didn t have anything to do about security of this country. that is bribery. now they can dance around it, but the fact pattern is very clear. and the judge in the impeachment trial, which in this instance, if he s impeached in the house, it will go to the senate for a trial unlike the immepeachment
as they think. so tim morrison behinded closed doors hold house investigators that in his mind the interaction of president trump and zelensky wasn t illegal but just politically problematic and damaging if it leaked. kurt volcker told house investigators that he wasn t aware of a quid pro quo and republicans seized on that to form late the talking point he said there wasn t one. our team learned from a source familiar when he testifies today he ll amend his prior testimony to make the point he doesn t dispute that the president ordered and instructed officials to link the delivery of that aid, the coveted meeting and the demand of the opening of those investigations that he wanted. he just wasn t aware of it. when ukrainian officials and rudy giuliani in ukraine talking about barisma kurt voluntarily
saw schiff and pelosi start to play up that prospect. meaning this could lead to an article of impeachment based on bri bribery. i want to a key moment on this issue. you ve never used the word bribery or bribe to explain president trump s conduct, correct? no, sir. colonel vindman, you haven t either. that is correct. the problem is in an impeachment inquiry that the speaker of the house says is all about bribery, where bribery is the impeachable offense, no witness has used the word bribery to describe president trump s conduct. none of them. these aren t all of the deposition transcripts. these are just the ten that have been released. six weeks of witness interviews in this impeachment inquiry.