why he didn t put it in the opening testimony. you saw the president there basically write out the transcript of his call and read it on the white house lawn. there was another call and i want to play this here. this is what bill taylor said of a call that happened before the september 9 call. september 7, i had a conversation with mr. morrison. he described a phone conversation earlier that day between ambassador sondland and president trump. according to mr. morrison, president trump told ambassador sondland he was not asking for a quid pro quo. president trump did insist that president zelensky go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of biden and 2016 election interference and that president zelensky should want to do this himself. this call, of course, not as favorable to the president and much different from the one sondland describes. we have seen sondland change his testimony multiple times
bidens in exchange for military aid and a white house visit. last week, sondland testified that i told him quote what do you want from ukraine? i said, i want nothing. this is a quote. i want no quid pro quo. reporter: but the president was reportedly briefed about whistleblower s complaint, alleging the quid pro quo in late august. he spoke to sondland several days after that on september 9, and released the nearly $400 million of u.s. military aid to ukraine on the 11th. democrats say that proves the president only said and did the right things because he got caught. it tells me that a lot of scrambling went on after the fact, to try to cover their tracks, including the ultimate resumption of aid itself, because he realized he had been fingered by somebody in the know.
profit from anything that i know of in the ukraine. as we mentioned here last night, according to reports from nbc news, abc news, and the washington post, giuliani has either done consulting work, delivered speeches, or represented clients or governments in at least 19 foreign countries. there are their flags. back in september giuliani insisted that his contacts with ukraine were solely at the request of our state department. i never talked to a ukrainian official until the state department called me and asked me to do it. and then i reported every conversation back to them. it s all here. right here. the first call from the state department. meanwhile, the washington post tonight is also reporting about another important impeachment witness. according to the paper, there are new questions about a phone conversation that gordon sondland said he had with the president on september 9. remember, sondland testified that during the call the president said he wanted no quid
pro quo with ukraine. immediately after sondland s testimony the president highlighted that at the white house. i say to the ambassador in response, i want nothing. i want nothing. i want no quid pro quo. tell zelensky, president zelensky, to do the right thing. but tonight the post reports this. no other witness testimony or documents have emerged that corroborate sondland s description of a call that day. trump himself in describing the conversation has referred only to the ambassador s account of the call. and the white house has not located a record in its switchboard logs of a call between trump and sondland on september 9. that talking point that there was no quid pro quo even though it s on the call summary and sondland testified to a quid pro quo, it has clearly been adopted by trump nation as they positively chanted it in unison
of in the ukraine. as we mentioned here last night, according to reports from nbc news, abc news, and the washington post, giuliani has either done consulting work, delivered speeches, or represented clients or governments in at least 19 foreign countries. there are their flags. back in september giuliani insisted that his contacts with ukraine were solely at the request of our state department. i never talked to a ukrainian official until the state department called me and asked me to do it. and then i reported every conversation back to them. it s all here. right here. the first call from the state department. meanwhile, the washington post tonight is also reporting about another important impeachment witness. according to the paper, there are new questions about a phone conversation that gordon sondland said he had with the president on september 9. remember, sondland testified during the call, the president said he wanted no quid pro quo with ukraine.