career foreign service knowing full well that investigators some way was going to read it. now just today the president cited that very same text that sondland presumably cooked up with the president as an albi. i believe you are incorrect about president trump s intentions, the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. that says it all. first of all, it was not a tweet. it was a text message. but here s the other thing about gordon sondland, gordon sondland buzz planning to cooperate. gordon sondland flew in from brussels. he turned over text messages from his personal device which i should note included texts using the crypted messages from whatapp. they re willing to risk looking like they re engaged in an active cover up just to not let
according to texts released last week, a top diplomat messaged sondland, i think is crazto withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. sondland, after talking with president trump, according to a source with knowledge of the situation texting back this the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. adding, i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. now some democrats want sondland to resign. if that s what the ambassador needs to do to testify, he ought to do this reporter: republicans defending the president who is tweeting unfortunately sondland would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court, where republicans rights have been taken away. what we see in this impeachment is a kangaroo court. this entire thing is a political charade. reporter: a congressional source with knowledge of the matter tells nbc news the whistle-blower in a memo says a white house official who listened to president trump s july
clear. no quid pro quos of any kind. he added, i suggest we stop the back-and-forth by text. another state department official, the former ambassador to ukraine, is scheduled to testify to congress on friday. she, too, a career diplomat. not clear, however, whether she will be allowed to appear. meanwhile, the new york times is reporting on new details about that ukraine/trump call back in july. the times says according to the whistle-blower s memo of the call, a white house official described the conversation as crazy and frightening, that the official was, quote, visibly shaken by what they had witnessed. that official also reportedly described the call as, quote, completely lacking in substance related to national security. tonight sources are telling nbc news the trump administration is consulting with former republican congressman trey gowdy of benghazi fame about impeachment-related matters. earlier today, senator lindsey graham, chair of the judiciary
sondland, quote, i think it s crazy to with hold security assistance for help with a political campaign. and what we know is that gordon sondland waited five hours to respond. multiple news outlets are now reporting during that period of time he talked to trump presumably to come up with a cover story before he responded in writing to the career foreign service guy calling him out for quid pro quo. and five hours later with a hilarious worded up text, quote, the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quos of any kind. he ends, quote, i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. what we also know is that esondland had already described what was happening to republican senator ron johnson as a quid pro quo. gordon sondland knew what was happening. he knew what he was tasked with doing. he was the president s guy implementing the president s policy of corruptly coercing a foreign power and that policy in crew crane was to dig up dirt on
the president s political enemies. remember that lawyered up text. quote, the president has been crystal kier, no quid pro quos of any kind and he said that to career foreign service knowing full well that investigators some way was going to read it. now just today the president cited that very same text that sondland presumably cooked up with the president as an albi. i believe you are incorrect about president trump s intentions, the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. that says it all. first of all, it was not a tweet. it was a text message. but here s the other thing about gordon sondland, gordon sondland buzz planning to cooperate. gordon sondland flew in from brussels. he turned over text messages from his personal device which i should note included texts using the crypted messages from whatapp.