Insult insulted as you did today essentially blaming you for somalia. As if this is another step by the president to intimidate witnesses. He didnt intimidate you. Youre here. Youve endured. But there are other people out there that can expect the trump treatment if they come forward. Thats a question for us. Now, you also indicated that the president has a prerogative to appoint a noncareer person and to be candid, republican president s and democratic president s have done that. The mr. Sondlands transcript is out and he was someone who indicated that everything hinged, this the white house meeting and the release of the
vital defensive aid. Everything hinged on the president , president zelensky, being willing to do that investigation that would benefit the trump campaign. Youre aware of that . Yes. And youve indicated thats something that you would not agree to do. Yes. And sondland was quite willing to do. Apparently, so. I thank you for your professional service and i yield back.
any mos as they call it. and he picked the infantry. he was a rifle company commander at the height of the vietnam war. by the way, he was 506 regimen, the famous band of brothers brigade. and let me tell you what. from that moment in 1969 until two days ago, he s been serving his country. so who do you believe? ambassador bill taylor? or or an extraordinary person like ambassador yovanovitch who who was told to get on the next plane because they were concerned for her safety at the very moment she s honoring an anti-corruption fighter who was killed by corrupt ukrainian elements by an acid attack. this is not a laughing matter. she is told to get out. we re worried about your security. get on the next plane. but here s the point. that threat s not coming from the bad guys abroad. it s not coming from the ukrainian mob per se. it s coming from her own government and that is the heart of the question she asked, which is how could our system fail us like this?
sondland on the other end of that phone call. what will be your committee s first question to him? well, the bottom line is, what was he doing? what was the policy he was pursuing and he has now, with his do over, acknowledged that there was a quid pro quo there was a quid pro quo, everything depended on ukraine being willing to give the president the investigations he wanted. that was the white house meeting, they had to do the investigations. that was the military defensive aid, they had to do the white house meeting. we re going to want sondland to come clean on this. you know, this is really a tale of two ambassadors. with yovanovitch who with taylor who went to west point, joined the infantry in vietnam, dedicated public servant, pursuing the long-standing effort to have us have a strong, peaceful europe, and then you had had sondland who bought his ambassadorship and essentially was for the president in doing whatever the bidding was of the
at joo giuliani s two business trying to leave the country. here they are laughing with giuliani at the trump hotel. see you in ukraine soon. reporter: she says these businessmen may have believed their personal financial ambitions were stymied by our anti-corruption policy in ukraine. today abc news learned federal prosecutors are investigating the business relationship between giuliani and those two men. lets get to mary bruce, she s live on the hill tonight. the former ambassador, while testifying, describing the state department as attacked and hollowed from within. and we know tonight, house democrats are holding a call at the end of a very busy week reporter: david, democratic h leaders feel they are building a strong case against the president especially now that they re able to question witnesses like yovanovitch. especially after the ambassador
confidence in me, and that there had been a concerted campaign against mer me, even though i was assured i had done nothing wrong. i heard very, very bad things about her for a long period of time. not good. reporter: in the july phone call with the ukrainian president that sparked the impeachment inquiry, trump called her bad news. later saying she was going to go through some things. today, yovanovitch who served in six administrations called idea that she was disloyal to president trump fictitious. incredulous that she was removed from her post based on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives and placed blame squarely president s attorney rebecca jarvis, who claimed yovanovitch was blocki ing i trump s politicalponent i. it stems around the ambassador and embassy being used for political purposes. reporter: the former ambassador also points a finger