to play off. it was a quick call. it really helps establish that he had that point of contact with the president that morning. interesting. after sondland speaks to president trump. he texts volker. former u.s. special enjoy to ukraine to set up a phone call. volker texts yur mac. the aide. heard from the white house? he will investigate get to the bottom of what happened in 2016. we will nail down date for visit to washington. is that the ground work being laid for a quid pro quo? i think the ground work already had been laid. this is confirming that everything is in place. because of the way he worded that. and if you look at the his testimony later and the text that have come out, what it shows us is that sondland is
ukraine revealing one of the staffers over heard a phone call with the president asking ambassador sondland about the investigations in ukraine. that staffer, david holmes. now scheduled to testify before house investigators tomorrow. if you happen to be watching the protump shows. you barely heard about it. watching fox news in prime time is like watching one of the president trumps dreams come true. day one. of the impeachment farce. such a disaster. triple fold disaster for the democrats. complete and utter disaster for adam schiff. a schiff show. elsewhere news reporting on the explosive testimony. on fox, the president won. the democrats lost. and the show is over. even though the impeachment hearings are really just beginning. it s boring. flat out boring. what about the witnesses? a bunch of professional
most people. you get to the heart of a bigger picture look. we have that conversation between sondland and trump on the 26th. it s made very clear what president trump is interested is in the investigation. two more text messages after that call on the 25th. in which he went to volker and said we did what we were supposed to do and let us know about meeting. i passed your message along. there s all the threads. just outside of the transcript. where the communication between volker and sondland in between the ukrainians and americans. what s being laid out in the transcript is this exchange. meeting for the investigations. which we see reflected in the call between the sondland and president. thank you both. the president has a lot of legal trouble with his hotel. taxes and roger stone.
if you read what you read. it seems zelensky says i ll do the investigation. he says cool, come to the white house sometime. that morning. trump and sondland spoke. sondland texts vel volker. and the message he sends is you say we ll do the investigations and we ll give you meeting. if you know that context when you read the transcript you understand. this is exactly what they had set up. this exchange of yes, i will do the investigations for you. in that case we ll i vit you to the white house. july 26. sondland is in ukraine. he meets with president zelensky. and other officials. ambassador taylor is also in ukraine for the meetings. and here s what he testified. president zelensky told volker and me that he was happy with the call. didn t elaborate. president zelensky asked about the fates to face meeting in the
with zelensky adviser. and this is a bomb shell that taylor dropped yesterday. following that meeting in the presence of my staff at a restaurant. sondland called president trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. the member of the my staff could hear trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. sondland told president trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. following the call with trump the member of my staff asked sondland what president trump thought about ukraine. sondland responded that president trump cares more about the investigations of biden which giuliani was pressing for. you say that by expanding how we look at this, it gets thoort of it. the president says look at the transcript. the transcript is damming.