emails of his political opponent, russia in fact tried to do that for the first time. the very officers who were then indicted by the department of justice for that conduct, they took candidate trump s invitation. now, the american people learned a lesson. president trump unfortunately, apparently, learned a different lesson. let s look. well, i would think that if they were honest about it, they would startut a major investigation into the bidens. it s a very simple answer. they should investigate the bidens. so this was president trump answering ais question about wh didqu he want president zelensk to do. so event after he got caught, is saying again this vulnerable nation dependent on u.s. support militarily and otherwise, and unlike in 2016 when he only had
to try to resolve the conflict in the east. now the day after this phone call president trump sought to ensure thatto president zelensk got the message. on july 26th, u.s. officials met with president zelensky and other ukrainian officials in kiev and president zelensky mentioned that president trump had broughtio up some quote ver sensitive issues, unquote. after that meeting ambassador sondland had a private one-on-one meeting with president zelensky s top aide. during which ambassador sondlana said that they probably discussed tissue of investigations. at lunch right after that with mr. holmes and two other state department officers, ambassador sondland pulled out a cell phone and called president trump. somewhat shocked, mr. holmes recounted the conversation that followed. i heard ambassador sondland greet the president and explain that he was calling from kiev.
president trump required and that ambassador sondland had testified sor clearly about. numerous witnesses testifiedbo about the importance of a white house meeting with the president of the united states. specifically a meeting in the oval office, an official act by president trump. as davidy holmes senior offici in theni u.s. embassy in ukrain said, it is important to understand that a white house visit was critical to president zelensky. president zelensky needed to show u.s. support at the highest levelsat in order to demonstrat to russian president putin that he had u.s. backing as well as to advance his ambitious anti-corruption reformit agendat home. in other words, the white house visit would help zelensky s anti-corruption reforms. and that support remains critical as r president zelensk meets today with president putin
bolton, vice president pence all becamede convinced that zelensk was, in fact, worth the risk. he was, in fact, legit and the real deal and a real change. and guess what? they told the president he s a reformer. release the money.th and that s exactly what president trump did. over the next few weeks, we re going to have more witnesses likeg we ve had today that the democrats will parade in here and they re all going to say this. so ande so said such and such so and so and, therefore, we got to impeach the president. actually, we can get more specific. we covered this a little bit ago. they ll say something like, ambassador sondland said in his deposition where he said ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told ambassador taylor that i told mr. morrison that ito conveyed this message september 1st, 2019, in connection with vice president pence s visit to warsaw and a meeting with president zelensky. if you can follow that,re that the f democrats plan and why th