Now that white house meeting was going to be an official meeting between the two president s correct . Presumably. It would be an Oval Office Meeting hopefully . A working meeting. A working meeting, yes. So an official act. Yes. And in order to perform that official act, donald trump wanted these two investigations that would help his reelection campaign, correct . I cant characterize why he wanted them. All i can tell you is this is what we heard from mr. Giuliani. But he had to get those two investigations if that official act was going to take place, correct . He had to announce the investigations. He didnt actually have to do them, as i understood it. President zelensky had to announce the two investigations the presiden t wanted, make a public announcement, correct . Correct. And those were of great value to the president , that he was quite insistent upon them and his attorney was incestent upon them . I dont want to characterize whether they were valued, not valued. Again, thro
Respond to ambassador taylors concerns to go to President Trump apparently ambassador taylor had access to secretary pompei oh he did not have access to President Trump so i made the phone call i said what do you want President Trump responded with what i put in the text and then i strongly encouraged. Embassador taylor to take it up with the secretary and he responded i agree when i said that as far as the other part of your question relating to. Whether or not the prosecutor could make the statement or selenski could make the statement i dont recall who told me whether it was volcker or whether it was giuliani or whether it was President Trump its gotta be zaleski it cant be the prosecutor but thats what i relate whoever i got that information from i relayed that to i believe both mr or excuse me ambassador taylor and to mr morris but as of september 9th you understood did you not that President Trump either himself or through his agents required that president selenski make a public
President zelensky and president shared their recollection of trump and from the podium he overhearing this call. For the most part, i have no said no, absolutely not. I never brought up the word reason to doubt their accounts. Its true that the president burisma in any of my conversations with anybody. Speaks loudly at times, and its lets move on to secretary of also true i think we state, mike pompeo. You will remember he made primarily discussed asop rocky. Television appearances and he acted like he didnt know what its true that the president the interviewer was talking likes to use colorful language. About when asked about the call anyone who has met with him for and the pressure on ukraine and any reasonable amount of time knows this. So now sondland is presenting while i cannot remember the precise details, again, the evidence in exhibits that white house has not allowed me dispute that. Its important to note, norah, that the president himself has to see any readouts of the call
Investigations were important to President Trump. We did not discuss any classified information. Other witnesses have recently shared their recollection of overhearing this call. For the most part, i have no reason to doubt their accounts. Its true that the president speaks loudly at times and its also true, i think we primarily discussed asap rocky. Its true that the president likes to use colorful language. Anyone who has met with him at any reasonable amount of time knows this. While i cannot remember the precise details, again, the white house has not allowed me to see any readouts of that call and the july 26th call did not strike me as significant at the time. Actually, actually, i would have been more surprised if President Trump had not mentioned investigations. Particularly, given what we were hearing from mr. Giuliani about the president s concerns. However, i have no recollection of discussing Vice President biden or his son on that call or after the call ended. I know that
Come to order. I now recognize Ranking Member nunes and minority counsel for 45 minutes of questions. Thank you the gentlemen and for those of you watching at home. That was not a bathroom break. That was a chance for the democrats to go out and hold a press conference for all the supposed bomb shells that were in your opening testimony. I want to get back to the facts of the matter here. And the thing that the democrats have been unwilling to accept is that their operatives got Campaign Dirt from ukrainians in the 2016 election. Now, they know it. They know its true. Because we have financial records that show it. So they were democrats were heavily involved working with ukrainians to dirty up the Trump Campaign in 2016. So ambassador, i want to go through just a few of the incidents that we know. I know you may not know all about them. You may know about them now. But i want to walk through some of those examples of why the president may be very upset with ukraine and think that they