withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. the new york times reports on what sondland did after he got that text message. after receiving the text, mr. sondland called mr. trump who asserted it was false. sondland then replied to taylor s message, bill, i believe you re incorrect about president trump s intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. and added i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. nbc news confirmed today that sondland spoke with the president before sending that awfully on-message reply and adds that there are more text messages between the officials that haven t yet been released to the public. and if the substance of all those communications were something that white house lawyers felt so good about seems to me sondland would be up on capitol hill right now telling that story and donald trump would be live tweeting his own exoneration. but he s not. and that is where we start today with some of
what we see in this impeachment is a kangaroo court. secretary of state pompeo was asked about this in the last few minutes. watch. you can see nothing from pompeo there. but there is plenty from the dozen plus democrats who want sondland to resign. he was the one featured in the text message exchanges, insisting, quote, the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kien. and then adding i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. for its part, the white house may be about to ex sclat things any minute. we ve got sources telling nbc news a letter may go out to the house speaker as soon as today, demanding they hold a vote to officially have an impeachment inquiry. we ve got our team following all of the fast-moving developments. jeff ben it is on capitol hill, hans nichols is at the white house. both of them i think with their
no quid pro quos of any kind. unfortunately, the next text was wink emoji, cash emoji and then the giuliani emoji. trump keeps saying there was no quid pro quo which can only mean there was mad quid pro quo. whenever a guy with like a 30 world vocabulary starts quoting the law iplatin. if you had said it at any other time in history would have meant you were in the middle of a stroke. that s going to do it for me tonight. declassified, untold stories of american spies starts next. have a great night. thanks for being here. enjoy the show.
his telephone call yesterday with president trump. reporter: text messages released show that sondland wads well aware for the president the u.s.-ukraine relationship was deeply intertwined with the president s desire for ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son. the group message he s on is full of references to rudy giuliani. pushing a biden conspiracy theory with zero supporting evidence. the ambassador to ukraine asked the hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance were conditioned on investigations. sondland responded, call me. a week later the ambassador said i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. sondland denied it was saying president trump has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. the president is trying to evaluate whether ukraine is truly going to adopt the
call. mentioned z making a statement. can we all get on the phone to make sure i advised z correctly as to what he should be saying? the statement was supposed to lay out how ukraine would pursue corruption investigations into the 2016 election and a company hunter biden was involved in but that statement was never released. on august 30th, the top american diplomat in ukraine william taylor tells volker that the president has canceled his trip to ukraine. the next day taylor texted gordon sondland a prominent republican donor and u.s. ambassador to the european union. are we now saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations? sondland responds, call me. on september 9th taylor again brings up the point. as i said on the phone i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. sondland texted back hours later, defending the president. i believe you re incorrect about president trump s intentions. the preside