volker suddenly s silsuddenly r told friends that he left his post to be free to talk. he was named five times in the whistleblower complaint. he is due there on thursday october 3. and george kent, kent oversees u.s. state policy toward ukraine, his deposition is set for october 7th. and then there is the counselor t. ulrich brechbul who listened to that critical july 25th call. he is one of the few people who was actually there listening into that phone call. of course the whistleblower got that information as we re told secondhand. and u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland who provided advice to ukraine about how to navigate the demands of president trump made of president zelensky. october 10th is the day congress would like to hear from him.
yeef mole uheme emoluments issue, they didn t check with a justice department, a retroactive excuse had made many. so essentially it was whatever the motivation, whether it was political, partisan or not, it was clearly the wrong decision and when called upon to address it, they essentially just punted the issue again. so here you have, you know, the president of the united states personally profiting. we have foreign governments, lobbyists, others spending millions of dollars at trump s properties throughout the world, he is encouraging the vice president, the air force and others to stay at these properties plainly benefiting from it. and clearly a conflict of interest way. and i do mention that early on in the conversation with president zelensky, he did mention that may, i stayed at your d.c. hotel and you noted
about the whole zelensky matter. and based on your reporting, you mention that there are many other issues including the emoluments clause. so is that approach a little too narrow? not necessarily. i think that it is very important to keep it simple. yes, of course you explore those and you may well cite those and the other 17 instances of be a b abuse of power that i cited. but in terms of showing the american public saying okay, the president against the law has now gone out twice and asked foreign powers, not necessarily friendly foreign power, to help him in his election and re-election, potentially compromising american national security. so putting his own interests above the national interests. and i think that is the core of any case that needs to be made. we ll see if that is the core of the investigation and the case that the democrats did make.