Security and that such investigati investigations the nsc was not going to be involved in or push. when sondland testified before investigators he offered a different version of events saying if ambassador bolton, or others had misgivings about the propiet of what we were doing, they didn t share those with me then or later. burisma wasn t connected to the bidens until much later. hill told investigators that bolton exclaimed he wasn t going to get involved in whatever drug deal sondland and acting chief of staff mick mulvaney were cooking up, sources told cnn. john bolton is a very important witness. he has relevant information. we want him to come in and testify. reporter: sara murray, cnn,
Statement, he said ambassador sondland started to speak about ukraine delivering specific investigations in order to secure the meeting with the president at which time ambassador bolton cut the meeting short. following this meeting there was a scheduled debriefing during which ambassador sondland emphasized the importance that ukraine deliver the investigations into the 2016 election, the bidens and burisma. i stated to ambassador sondland that this that his statements were inappropriate, that the request to investigate biden and his son had nothing to do with national security and that such investigations were not something the nsc was going to get involved in or push. dr. hill then entered the room and assert today ambassador sondland that his statements were inappropriate. and gordon sondland apparently says none of that happened. here what we have from him. under oath he said we have regular communications with the nsc about ukraine both before and after the july meeting and nei
Which ambassador sondland emphasized the importance that ukraine deliver the investigations into the 2016 election, the bidens and burisma. i stated to ambassador sondland that this that his statements were inappropriate, that the request to investigate biden and his son had nothing to do with national security and that such investigations were not something the nsc was going to get involved in or push. dr. hill then entered the room and asserted to ambassador sondland that his statements were inappropriate. and gordon sondland apparently says that none of that happened. hir here s what we have from gordon sondland in his opening statement. under oath he said we have regular communications with the nsc about ukraine both before and after the july meeting and neither ambassador bolton, dr. hill nor anyone else on the nsc staff ever expressed any concerns to me about our efforts our most importantly any concerns that we were acting improperly.
His statements were inappropriate, and that such investigations were not something had the nsc was going to get involved in or push. that testimony seems quite problematic and remember vindman testified for more than 10 hours. joining me now is the congress person who attended vindman s deposition today and called him a credible witness, democratic congresswoman debbie wassermann schultz of florida. i understand mr. vindman, the lieutenant colonel, just ended his testimony. how would you summerize what you learned from him today? lieutenant colonel vindman besides being an incredible patriot and really one of the significant assets our country obviously has defending us was really extremely credible. you could see his integrity really just came right through. he was very earnest and committed to making sure that
Election, the bidens and burisma. i stated to ambassador sondland his statements were inappropriate, and that such investigations were not something had the nsc was going to get involved in or push. that testimony seems quite problematic for trump s u.n. ambassador, and, remember, vindman testified for more than ten hours. joining me now is the congress person who attended vindman s deposition today and called him a credible witness, democratic congresswoman debbie wassermann schultz of florida. she s a member of the house oversight committee. i understand mr. vindman, the lieutenant colonel, just ended his testimony. how would you summarize what you learned from him today? well, lieutenant colonel vindman, besides being an incredible patriot and really, you know, on of the really significant assets that our country obviously has defending us was really extremely credible. you could see his integrity really just came right through.