documents by october 14, testimony by october 16. that s a week from tomorrow. text released last week reveal sondland s involvement in trump s conversations with ukraine s president and the concerns raised by other u.s. officials. acting ambassador to ukraine bill taylor, a career diplomat messaged sondland, quote, i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. nbc news has confirmed earlier reports that sondland replied to taylor after talking with president trump, and he texted back in part, quote, the president has been crystal 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. according to the
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 inquiries. remember that lawyered up text. quote, the president has been crystal kier, no quid pro quos of any kind and he said that to
that s a week from tomorrow. text released last week reveal sondland s involvement in trump s conversations with ukraine s president and the concerns raised by other u.s. officials. acting ambassador to ukraine bill taylor, a career diplomat messaged sondland, quote, i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. nbc news has confirmed earlier reports that sondland replied to taylor after talking with president trump, and he texted back in part, quote, the president has been crystal 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.
time of mr. trump s july 25th call. as i said on the phone, i think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a politic campaign. sondland replied, bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trump s intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. before sondland sent that response, he called the president. cnn has learned white house and national security officials scrambled to contain the fallout of the comments on call including moving the rough transcript of the conversation to a more secure system. fellow republicans see no wrongdoing. the president is doing his job. the president, when you talk about the hard-earned tax dollars of the american people going to a foreign government, the president will make sure there is no corruption there. reporter: still a new washington post poll found 58% agree that the impeachment inquiry should have begun. a huge jump from over the summer.
conclusion by u.s. intelligence that russia interfered in the election to help president trump. that conversation on top of the recently released text messages linking u.s. aid to ukraine, to ukraine investigating the bidens. the top diplomat in ukraine bill taylor wrote to sondland, quote, as i said on the phone, i think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with the political campaign, unquote. sondland waited about five hours and then replied, quote, bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trump s intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. a source now tells cnn that during that time gap, sondland phoned president trump himself. now the president has said publicly that the ukraine conversation was, quote, perfect and there is nothing wrong with what he s done and there is no quid pro quo. that is what he says. and what he and the white house have done, well, that is a different matter. they hid the rough transcript of the