had been frozen as well since he when he s about to sign a check. and by that, he clearly meant that president trump was was responsible for doing that, thinking about or had in front is that correct? that s what i had been told. of him the possibility of that s what we heard on that conference call, yes. providing security assistance to to neither of your knowledge, ukrainians were not aware of that at that point? ukraine. not to my knowledge. it was similar to writing a not to my knowledge. right after president zelensky thanks president trump check to someone who you re about to send. for his great support in the he used that analogy very area of defense, president trump clearly to indicate that this then says and we ll go to the next excerpt i want you to do would be this would require us a favor, though, because our something. if that person owed him country has been through a lot something, before he signed the and ukraine knows a lot about check, he wanted to get
it s like in a movie. type of activities. they re sitting there and other now, i m going to move ahead people at the table are hearing now to july 25th, which was when the president s voice. president trump and president zelensky had the phone call. and they hear him say, what but before we get to the phone call, i want to show both of you about the investigations, showing as all this evidence a text message. shows that the only thing the neither of you is on this text president cared about ukraine message. it is between ambassador volker he didn t care if these people were dying. and andre yermak, a top aide to he didn t care about russian president zelensky. invasion. he wanted these investigations. i will read it. by the way, what kind of ambassador volker says, good lunch, thanks. heard from white house. secure devices is the president assuming president z convinces and ambassador sondland using in trump he will investigate/get to a restaurant where people can hear? the botto
credible witness. there? and ukrainian officials were to john s point of bringing in that meeting, yes, sir. around this same time in mid up what the republicans are saying, well, look, this was the july, did you have any president just interested in changing foreign policy. discussions with ukrainian officials about these this really wasn t a changing investigations? foreign policy. i don t recall. this was executing a private well, let me show you a text policy by the president that would benefit him. message that you wrote on july he kept calling it there was a regular policy and there was 21st where you wrote it again to an irregular policy which was run by rudy giuliani and the ambassador sondland and volker. president. a couple of things strike me if you could just read what you about ambassador taylor today. wrote here on july 21st. number one, we learned something gordon, one thing curt and i new, that ambassador sondland had a direct phone call with the talked ab
i want to particularly note four president trump used his enormous power as president not to help our security but to excerpts of the transcript, one benefit himself personally. as you watch this piece by piece that relates to the security this picture being built by the assistance we ve been talking professionals, is that the about, another that discusses a picture you re seeing? favor that president trump asked if it is, it s impeachable. of president zelensky, a third not to fight the russians. where president trump asks the ukrainian president to our security as ambassador investigate his political taylor said, our security is in opponent, former vice president a world governed by rule of law biden, and then a final one where the ukrainian president where you do not violate the directly links the desired white sovereignty of your neighbors, house visit to the political that you respect international investigations that president trump wanted. so let s look at the first covenant
nunes called this whole thing, a not in this way mr. goldman, low rent ukrainian sequel. but i knew that ambassador his whole intent today was to volker was prepping ukrainians frame the conversation and the for the phone call earlier on. testimony of these two credible men as being part of a last ditch effort to relitigate not only the election but the that is, at a meeting in toronto mueller probe as well. what you saw instead from these on july 2nd ambassador volker two individuals were not people who were fawning to try to become partisan. had a conversation with they weren t answering yes or no when yes or no was really the only response they should have president zelensky and had given in some instances. indicated in a phone call that he at that time was going to instead they were very clear to say here s what i heard, here s who i heard it from, giving you talk president zelensky through the steps that needed to be the flowchart and the sense of taken in order to get to the ph