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Messaging gordon sondland, the ambassador to the european union and a major trump campaign donor, not a career foreign service officer. taylor says, quote, are we now saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations? ambassador sondland reporting, quote, call me. about a week later, ambassador taylor tries again. quote, as i said on the phone, i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. and then, importantly, there is a gap of nearly five hours in the conversation after which ambassador gordon sondland replies, quote, bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trump s intentions. the president has been crystal clear. no quid pro quos of any kind. the president is trying to evaluate whether ukraine is truly going to adopt the transparency and reforms that president zelensky promised during his campaign, end quote. he then adds, quote, i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. tonight a source ....
Official on the national security consal alerted the white house s national security lawyer s about their concerns. those same lawyers would go on to order the transcript of the call be moved to the highly classified code-word level servererer to keep it hush hush. we re also learning about what happened. in that almost five-hour gap between senior diplomat s text questioning what he perceiveds as holding and ambassador sondeland s actual answer and a source saying that sondeland actual spoke to the president about the situation. that led to his reply of bill, i believe you were incorrect about president trump s intentions. the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quos of any kind. a lot to discuss here and we ....
Tells cnn that before he sent that text, which sounds a lot like the president s talking points, sondland in fact spoke with the president, who told him exactly that. no quid pro quo, which ironically today the president suggested somehow exonerates him, tweeting, ambassador sondland s tweet, which few reports stated, i believe you are incorrect about president trump s intention. the president has been crystal clear. no quid pro quos of any kind. that says it all. it certainly says something that the president is citing the restatement of his own talking points which he gave ambassador sondland as evidence. in addition, he blocked sondland s testimony before congress today which also says something. cnn s jim acosta starts us off tonight at the white house. jim, clearly the white house thinks they have a political argument. does the president s team really think this letter has legal merit? reporter: they do, anderson. i just talked to a source close to the impeachment deliberations ....
Constitutional protection. they say at the other way around. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has that part of the story tonight. just 90 minutes before ambassador gordon sondland was scheduled to swear off with congressional investigators. if democrats that they lend a state apartment pull the plug. the president and secretary of state are taking actions that prevent us from getting the facts. sondland s name appears in the whistle-blower complaint as a key figure in the president s dealings with ukraine after the july 25th phone call with its newly elected president. september shows sondland wanted to take conversations about the allegations off-line and pushed back against claims the u.s. help was tied to an investigation into corruption allegations against the bidens. top u.s. diplomat to ukraine bill taylor says i think it s crazy to withhold security systems for help with the political campaign, with sondland replying the president has been crystal clea ....
With a political campaign. but sondland stood up for trump, responding, the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quos of any kind, but then added, i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. in a statement, sondland s lawyer says he is profoundly disappointed that he will not be able to testify today, noting the ambassador had agreed to appear voluntarily and had already traveled from brussels mr. secretary, why did you instruct ambassador sondland not to testify? thanks a lot, good morning. reporter: democrats accuse the state department of stonewalling. if there is no wrongdoing here, isn t that all the more reason why he should be allowed to come up and testify? just answer all of your questions? yeah, there is no wrongdoing. the two guys on the call, no quid pro quo whatsoever. mary bruce with us live on the hill again tonight. and mary, as you reported there, the white house late today declaring that they will not cooperate with this impeachment inquir ....