giuliani is a central figure in the effort. attorney general bill barr appears to be involved as well. one of the whistle-blower s biggest allegations is the white house tried to hide the records of the phone call between trump and zelensky. the whistle-blower wrote, white house officials told me that they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcripts from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored. instead the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system used to handle classified information of a sensitive nature. according to white house officials i spoke with, this was not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this code-word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. the complaint goes on to say that multiple u.s. officials
nation to dig up or manufacture dirt on his opponent. if there s an effort to cover up any of this conduct. i have no confidence this attorney general will investigate anything except the president s adversaries. or claims that give fodder to the conspiracy theories which the president wishes to peddle which indeed he was peddling with president zelensky. sos as the department is unwilling to look into this, this will fall within our responsibility. interviews with rudy giuliani, with bill barr, and will you subpoena for those transcripts that were allegedly stored separate from the individual i won t get into specific investigation gate differen
whistle-blower. i learned from u.s. officials that on or around 14 may the president instructed vice president pence to cancel his travel to attend president zelensky s inauguration on 20 may. secretary of energy rick perry le led the delegation instead. it was made clear with them that the president didn t want them to meet with president zelensky until he saw how zelensky, quote, chose to act, close quote, in office. i also do not know whether this action was connected with the broader understanding described in the unclassified letter that a meeting or phone call with the president and president zelensky would depend on whether zelensky showed the willingness to play ball. do you know whether mr. pence, vice president pence s trip was
call in question happened in july and we know the president chose, based on the information in the whistle-blower complaint to freeze the transmission of u.s. resources to ukraine prior to that call. so this is another piece of information from the u.s. government that suggests that there was evidence that ukraine was, in fact, moving in a direction away from corruption and toward a more stable government. it also comes at about the time of the election of president zelensky, the new president of ukraine. so this is just one more piece for people to evaluate in the rationale being given by the president who said he withheld, through these documents, in part because he wanted europe to pay more to ukraine, also the concerns about corruption that the president has expressed and his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, of course, some of that being in the judicial part of ukraine s government, perhaps separate from their military. but this is the kind of
dealing, it is incredible he says. days later, this ambassador is recalled from kiev where she has been opposing giuliani s meetings. volcker is empowering giuliani, setting up these meetings, making this all take place. and then only days later, a week later, she loses her job. and she has all along been objecting to the ex parte efforts by the state department and giuliani s behalf and according to the president william barr as well. andrea lays out all these data points that are not in dispute. the transcript or the notes from the call that the white house put out yesterday was put out by the white house. it is not in dispute that donald trump tied military aid to president zelensky investigating the bidens.