that said, i m asking you to address the substance of what holmes said he heard which was president trump telling sondland, he s going to do the information. that must alarm you? well, i can only comment on the portion which is public, which is, you know, ambassador taylor in his opening statement last week. right. referenced this phone conversation. i ll talk about ambassador taylor. under the gag order from adam schiff, i m not able to talk about what holmes said. what ambassador taylor said is that the aid had overheard the word investigations. now, as you know, you personally watched donald trump at a microphone say he thought that ukraine should undertake an investigation of burisma and the biden s connections to that. you actually know as much as he does. that s a scandalous about the fact he claims to have overheard this conversation, which happened the day after the conversation with president zelensky. that conversation, which you
exchange for information about his ukraine. i the angst and anxiety is far worse than people are presenting. they re saying it doesn t matter. they shouldn t be worried about it. but looking at last week, you had all these incredibly credible and powerful and compelling foreign service officers, people that served our country, not in a partisan way, making the case that the president did something for personal gain. i wouldn t feel good, if i were them. if i look at this strategically, i don t know who is advising the president but i m going to give a shoutout to the clinton administration was going through the same thing. he put the president on the northbound train with a vision for the american people so they can focus on something else. and i think that is one of the things that is missing here. you ve got the president that is tweeting out while and it s not
direct not testimony. it s not testimony that heard from somebody who heard from somebody. i hope sondland tells the truth. he had to amend his deposition. i hope everybody tells the truth. agreed. and what i would like is the people who are leaking information to you guys tell the truth. because story after story happens where you report what happened in triptds and then when they come out, they don t match. that s not true. being straight with you. well, most of them what happened on that phone call between sondland and taylor and you can go to page 225 okay. i m in the interest of time, i would like to focus on what the president did and what you think about it. because i guess one question i have is perhaps sondland and you have mulvaney publicly saying that in order for people either publicly saying it or saying in the depositions behind closed doors. in order for them to the get the money or the white house meeting, they need to do the
aid unless they opened up investigations that the white house was recommending. we all know the only two investigations that the president mentioned to president zelensky was the investigation into the bidens and the investigation that would re-litigate the 2016 election. now the ukrainians are going to try to put a spin on this. they won t accuse the president of extortion. they are presently reliant on the good will of trump in order to keep their country safe. they can t take on the president because at any moment, he could stop the security aid once more. nobody should be surprised when the ukrainians are trying to put a good spin on this or trying to stay in the president s good graces. h he still holds enormous leverage over that country s independence and sovereignty. a lot of democrats care about the quid pro quo that ukraine, in the case, as you noted, relies on sondland. he s testifying on wednesday in
electorate doesn t know enough about them. he did a $2 million ad buy in south carolina. he has to eat his wheaties before the debate this week. everybody will be after him. i think it s more than the golding locks. i think people are seeing something they like. and, congressman love, i want you to listen to something president obama said on friday. you weren t a particular supporter of the president s but it might be something you can agree with. we