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
Shared their recollection of overhearing this call. For g 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 a ap rocky. Its true that the president likes to use color of language. Anyone who has met with him for 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 members of this committee frequently framed these complicated issues in the form of a simple question. Was the
Hit new record highs. The president highlighting his support for the men and women of our military. He was asked if he disparaged the because of his removal Richard Spencer and Lieutenant Colonel alexander vindman. There has been then a president who would stick up for them and has like i have, including the fact we spent 2. 5 trillion on rebuilding our armed forces. You let Sergeant Bergdahl go, you let others go, including a young gentlemen now a person who president obama let go who stole tremendous amounts of classified information. And you let that person go. So when you have a system that allowed Sergeant Bergdahl to go and you probably had 5 to 6 people killed, no one knows the number, because he left, and he gets a slap on the wrist if that. Then you have a system where the warriors have been put in jail for 25 years, i will stick up for the warriors. Lou the American People understand the president is working for them. The president s approval numbers are on the rise. Support
The president highlighting his support for the men and women of our military. He was asked if he disparaged the because of his removal Richard Spencer and Lieutenant Colonel alexander vindman. There has been then a president who would stick up for them and has like i have, including the fact we spent 2. 5 trillion on rebuilding our armed forces. You let Sergeant Bergdahl go, you let others go, including a young gentlemen now a person who president obama let go who stole tremendous amounts of classified information. And you let that person go. So when you have a system that allowed Sergeant Bergdahl to go and you probably had 5 to 6 people killed, no one knows the number, because he left, and he gets a slap on the wrist if that. Then you have a system where the warriors have been put in jail for 25 years, i will stick up for the warriors. Lou the American People understand the president is working for them. The president s approval numbers are on the rise. Support to impeach him falling
The september time frame, but i want to go back two months, to july, before the july 25th call. You testified, ambassador taylor, in your Opening Statement that it was in the middle of july when you understood that the white house meeting was first a condition on these investigations. Is that accurate . Yes. We were preparing and i agreed that the white house meeting was going to be an important step in u. S. ukrainian relations. So, in june and in early july, attempts to work out a way to get that meeting included a phone call. And so there were several conversations about how to have this phone call that eventually happened on july 25th. And you described in your Opening Statement a july 10th white house meeting with a number of officials where ambassador bolton used the term that something was a drug deal. What did you understand him to mean in hearing that he said used this term, drug deal . I dont know. I dont know what ambassador bolton had in mind. Was that in reference to a dis