security assistants and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations. sondland replies, call me, let s take this off text. that assistance referring to the nearly $400 million in aid that was initially withheld from ukraine by the white house and finally released on september 11th. two days before september 11th, taylor brings up the point, i think it s crazy to with hold security assistance for help with a political campaign. sondland texts back later defending the president saying i believe you were incorrect about president trump s intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of my kind. sondland suggests they stop texting and they do. so while this notion of quid pro quo seems to be called into question here, brooke, this series of texts shows how involved these top officials were in pushing the president s
happened in 2016. we will nail down date for visit to washington. according to president trump last month there was never any quid pro quo. reporter: but senior u.s. diplomat in ukraine bill taylor questioning if that s the case. texting on september 9th, i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with the political campaign. more than four hours later, ambassador gordon sondland responding. i believe you are incorrect about president trump s intentions. the president has been clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. the texts also revealing how close rudy giuliani was in setting up the call between trump and zelensky. the whistle-blower complaint alleging volker held meetings with giuliani where in one according to the washington post he warned giuliani against trusting information he was receiving from ukrainian political figures about biden and his son. if volker had said to me that
to washington. according to president trump, last month there was never any quid pro quo. but senior u.s. diplomat in ukraine bill taylor questioning if that s the case. texting on september 9th, i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. more than four hours later, ambassador gordon sonland responding, i believe you are incorrect about president trump s intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. the text messages revealing how involved trump s personal attorney rudy giuliani was in setting up the call between trump and zelensky. the whistle-blower complaint alleging volker held meetings with giuliani, where in one, according to the washington post, he warned giuliani against trusting information he was receiving from ukrainian political figures about biden and his son. if voke her said to me, that my, if volker had said to me that my sources were incredible or wrong or any of them, i would
the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine. he writes i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. excuse me. gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the eu responds, bill, i believe excuse me you are incorrect about president trump s intentions. the president has been kris cal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. the president is trying to evaluate whether ukraine is truly going adopt the transparency and reforms that president zelensky promised during his campaign. sondland then asked to take it off line. quote, i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. congressman mike quigley is on the intelligence committee. his staff were among those interviewed the source of those texts. kurt volker. congressman quigley, i ll get to the text in a moment. your take on rachael bade s reporting that volker testified a meeting between ukraine s president and president trump was contingent on the ukrainian
references that would imply investigations of joe biden and his son, hunter, and the 2016 election. a u.s. top diplomat was concerned president trump withholding hundreds of millions of military aid would result in a quid pro quo. bill taylor texted the u.n. ambassador. taylor wrote this, are we now saying security assistance and a white house meeting are conditioned on investigations? suthland responded, call me. on september 9th, as i said on the phone, i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. 4 1/2 hours later sondland said i believe you are incorrect. the president has been crystal clear. no quid pro quos of any kind. he urged ukraine not to interfere in u.s. politics. the washington post reports volker warned giuliani that