phone call or an e-mail was made after this phone call relatively soon thereafter and within a couple of hours raises the question of why. was the preliminary hold only in hold until the phone call at which time the president was seeking an answer to the question about whether zelensky was going to actually order the investigations or announce investigations, and when he didn t provide the information that trump sought, did they then impose the conditionality again, and those are the questions to come up and all of the more reasons that we need witnesses and documents. another group of documents that we need is the documents in mick mulvaney s investigation, because in the e-mails remember at the press conference he said that military assistance was conditioned on at least an announcement of the investigation into the 2016 server conspiracy theory.
this right now we re seeing what ben sasse, a republican center who hasn t crossed president trump in a long time called what he read, quote, very troubling. matt miller, you ve been reading through. what jumps out at you? yesterday republicans set the bar for what would be misconduct by the president at a quid pro quo. there is direct evidence in this document of quid pro quo. what do you see? multiple u.s. officials told me that the ukrainian leadership was led to believe that a meet organize phone call between the president and president zelensky would depend on whether zelensky showed willingness to, quote, play ball on the issues that had been publicly aired by to follow that s right. there are multiple officials who this whistle-blower knows who would be able to who he can identify to come testify to congressional committees about the existence of they ve already been identified. it s also important to note that atkinson has gone through. they corroborated this
helped dig up dirt on joe biden. and really, clair, this underfliens more specific detail because there s follow-on investigation of what we read in the phone call yesterday, this gives us much more detail. what s interesting is the white house distributed talking points, ham handedly because they sent them to the democrats too, and part of that talking point was that zelensky brought up giuliani first. right. well, let s look at this document in that context. and let s go back to april when the president called him first after the election as matt reference and started talking about how you ve got to work with giuliani. right. then giuliani announced he was going to the ukraine. now, wait a minute. what is giuliani doing going to ukraine? and he says that the state department sent him. so talk about ensnaring a web of so pompeo now has some explaining do. exact. i and obviously they knew they brought up giuliani because
inspector general. the appendix points out that on may fourth the president instructed vice president pence to cancel his planned trip to ukraine to attend zelensky s inauguration. rick purchaerry went in said it was made clear that the president did not want to meet zelensky until he showed how he was going to act be in office. it s my understanding a meeting between the president and zelensky would depend on whether he chose to play ball on the issues of and your point about barr, this makes clear that what don mcgahn was somehow able to do perhaps inartfully and getting screamed at all day long was to keep donald trump just on the other side of criminality. and maybe sessions being recused helped some in some mysterious way as well. what happened hasn t in the post mcgahn era is these people have helped him break the law and it may appear they have criminal exposure themselves. on page 5 of the ig s report, what s really important here is the ig who say trained federal
about the information that is provided herein. it is remarkable, again, in this letter that attorney general barr is mentioned as being involved and yet barr chooses to, jeremy said, cover it up. however you want to describe it. chooses to not let the acting dni go to the hill to reveal a whistle-blower report that, as it says right here, attorney general barr appears to be involved in it as well. mika, what are you reading? i ll jump to seven pages in during this same time frame multiple u.s. officials told me that the ukrainian leadership was led to believe that a meeting or phone call between the president and president zelensky would depend on whether zelensky showed a willingness to, quote, play ball on the issues that had been publicly aired by mr. lieutenant searcut