democracy, brand-new president, in change for dirt on a political opponent. the president tried to self-deal. tried to bribe the president, president zelensky, for his own political gain. dr. hill said it so i thought interestingly and i ll paraphrase it only, but she said it was a private domestic errand that mr. sondland and others were on. mr. giuliani were on. for the president of the united states. and she realized that she was on a very different path. she was on a path b about sh national security. ironic that secretary of state pompeo is talk iing about natiol security. the threat was from within. it was from this very administration. withholding aid from an aid from a friend who is under invasion by our foe and their foe. withholding military aid in order to bribe a meeting, bribe dirt on a political foe. it s just grave damning evidence so i look forward to getting
sandy s deposition as well as all others. you know that report is now being report. we saw two weeks worth of public testimony that was i think courageous career diplomats, wu remember there are dozen of f hours of private testimony, depositions, that will be part of the report and evidence that will come to the judiciary as early as next week. the acting eck sec phil re reeker ed that sondland had wha he calls a script for president zelensky to use. is that how fp oreign policy is supposed to be conduct ed? i m not a career diplomat, but that was one of the striking things between the testimony of mr. sondland and the testimony of the career diplomats. certainly that is an extraordinarily irregular way to conduct foreign affairs and di ploem sy. in order to try to preserve
told a story consistent with that fundamental set of facts. the acting assistant secretary says the u.s. ambassador to the eu, sondland, had what he calls a script for the ukrainian president zelensky to use in that phone conversation with the president on july 25th. so why is that revelation significant? because it shows that sondland what was part of the effort to get the investigation open of the bidens, he had to tell zelensky what to say so that the president of the united states would release the, would release the aid. zelensky need ed the money. and he needed to know what to say in order to get the money so that his troops wouldn t die in fight iing the russians. this so sondland had a script for him according to reeker to say the right things so that trump would release the aid. mark sandy, the deputy
yovanovitch. he says that i know there was an understanding certainly from volcker and others that were there that rudy giuliani is feeding the president a lot of very negative views about ukraine. now he also says that he has concerns about the ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland. sondland was told by the president to be involved on ukraine matters. he said he didn t know why he was involved in these issues. sondland himself testified last week there was a quid pro quo in the seeking of a meeting with president trump in change for those investigations being announced, but he said sondland had a script of sorts that he had for president slent szelens talk to president trump about in july of this year. he said that i recall he was working with zelensky to work you know as he was preparing for phone calls and engaging the president towards this meeting, he had sort of a script. that s how he described it.