oeu hatches to be in ukraine on a trip. quite unusual. it was probably late at night at dinner. the ought thing i was remembering in his addendum, gordon sondland s iden item, hess references that he can t remember whether he had one or two phone calls with president trump. so i expect that will be a major line of questioning next week. what conversations did he have? now, he was a major donor to president trump. he gave a million dollars to the inaugural committee. that s how he got this ambassadorship. so perhaps well, that s not all. he also seals have been bright, anderson. beyond that so maybe they had a relationship related to 2020. who knows? there s lots of theories here that could be true. if you believe the president, they had no relationship at all. he says, i don t really know him. remember that? today he at least acknowledged that perhaps he had spoken to him for a brief minute. whatever he said. there was one point the president said i don t really know who he i
what, this is not our job. it s as if you transplanted them from another era in another time when diplomats were diplomats and were not political. i think you will actually find more people like them all over the foreign service. that s right. it s just they have been branded otherwise. you don t see them. i want to play a part of the conversation jim jordan said and talk about it with you. now there is one witness, one witness that they won t bring in front of us. they won t bring in front of the american people. that itself the guy who started it all. the whistleblower. nope. 435 members of congress, only one gets to know who that person is. only one member of congress has the staff that gets to talk to that person. the ret of us don t. only chairman schiff knows who the whistleblower is. we don t. i should point out the whistleblower s attorney is pushing back in tweets tonight sake, quote, the whistleblower quote never met with chairman schiff. he did not receive as
trum trump. the member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. ambassador sondland told president trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. following the call with president trump, the member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what president trump thought about ukraine. ambassador sondland responded that president trump cares more about the investigations of biden, which guiliani was pressing for. well, the staff is david holmes, who is now scheduled to speak friday to the committee off camera. jim is the president s tv lawyer, rudy guiliani certainly came up a lot today. rudy guiliani. rudy guiliani. rudy guiliani. guiliani. guiliani. guiliani. guiliani. rudy guiliani. and by the way, have you ever met rudy guiliani? guilianiing as you know is on record about his work if you crane on behalf of the president, senior state official george kent who testified alongside ambassador taylor toda
i think i ll go to court to work it out. congressman raskin, thank you. thank you for having me. president trump reacting to the witness testimony he didn t see and definitely did tweet and retweet a lot about. where we all want more energy. but with less carbon footprint. can we have both? at bp, we re working every day to make energy that s cleaner and better. and we see possibilities everywhere. to make energy that s cleaner and better. 25 cent boneless wings at applebee s. born to be wild. born to be wild. get em while they re hot. a former army medic, made of the we maflexibility to handle members like kate.
aide, overheard a conversation between gordon sondland, the ambassador to the european union and president trump in which president trump said, look, he s interested in these investigation, he s asking about the investigations and sondland is suggesting to him the ukrainians will ultimately give in, give him what he wants. republicans, keep in mind, were critical today of the fact that there was one degree of separation between the allegation that some of these officials today were making and president trump. that is going to change. david holmes, the aide that overheard that conversation between gordon sondland and the president is expected to be deposed at the end of the week and next week, we are expected to hear, of course from gordon sondland, himself, in public testimony. thanks very much. appreciate it. back with everyone. how unusual would it be for the president of the united states, i don t know who called whom, but for the president of the united states to have a phone c