Yes. Now, ambassador taylor also testified that and mr. Morrison both of them testified that you told them that President Trump said there was no quid pro quo which you also included in the text message that you referred. But then you went on and they had slight variations as to what you told them, but then you said that to ambassador taylor that president zelenskiy himself not the Prosecutor General needed to clear things up in public or there would be a stalemate. And mr. Morrison recounted something similar. You dont have any reason to doubt that both of their very similar recollections of the conversations they had with you, do you, ambassador sondland . Let me break that down, mr. Goldman. The text as i said about the no quid pro quo was my effort to respond to ambassador taylors
concerns to go to President Trump apparently ambassador taylor had access to Secretary Pompeo. He did not have access to President Trump so i made the phone call. I said what do you want . President trump
i think both you have said that and ambassador volker have said that from that may 23rd meeting. the first question i have is were you aware of the anti-trump efforts by dnc operative alexandra chalupa? i m not aware of it. so in 2000 there was a 2017 article that also quotes ukrainian parliamentarian art da men coe saying quote it was clear they were supporting meaning the ukraine, supporting hillary clinton s candidacy and they did everything from organizing meetings with the clinton team to publicly supporting her to criticizing trump. i think that they simply didn t meet with the trump campaign because they thought hillary would win. do you know that ukrainian official by any official i don t.