the transcript and was shocked. i sat in an awful lot of calls, she said, and i ve not seen anything like this. and hills had been told by sondland that mulvaney skrated the ukrainians would get a meeting with the ukrainians started up the investigations again. hill testified that sondland told this directly to the ukrainians in a july 10th meeting. john bolton, national security adviser at the time suddenly ended the meeting. bolton then told hill to report it to the top nsc lawyer saying i m not part of whatever drug deal sondland and mulvaney are cooking up. vindman, who is also disturbed by the meeting reported it as well. hill and vindman had both known about the role that rudy giuliani was playing in ukraine, pushing the conspiracy theories and working to get the u.s. ambassador removed. after he was successful, bolton told hill that giuliani was a hand grenade that is going to blow everybody up. hill left the white house in august and said that during her time there and since th
including death threats, called with obscenities to her house and people hammering on her front door. she was called a mole for george sur os which is a common anti-semitic slander and accused of colluding with enemies of the president. jake. alex marquardt, thanks so much. let s chew over there. mary katharine, vindman testified that sondland, who is the ambassador to the eu, who was running a point for the white house on ukraine and sondland told him he was coordinating with mick mulvaney on the necessity to launch investigations in order to secure a white house meeting with zelensky and trump. answer, this is vindman. so i heard him say, sondland, this is coordinated with white house chief of staff mr. mick mulvaney. question, what did he say about that? he just said that he had conversation with mr. mulvaney and this is what was required in order to get a white house meeting. question, did he explain what the investigations were that were needed. vindman he talked about the inves
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this and much more is democratic congressman ted lieu who serves on the house judiciary and foreign affairs committee. congressman lieu, thank you for joining us. so this is colonel vindman testifying about a conversation he had with ambassador sondland regarding the quote/unquote deliverables, what ukraine needed to do in order to get this meeting. question, do you understand how he came to believe this deliverable was necessary? answer, so i heard him say, sondland, this is coordinated with mick mulvaney. and question what did sondland say about that. answer, he said he had a conversation with mr. mulvaney and this is what was required in order for the ukrainians to get a meeting. question, did he explain what the investigations were that were needed and vind mand and he talked about the investigations and the 2016 election and the investigation into the bidens and burisma. mulvaney defied the subpoenas
to testify publicly? that remains to be seen. but with his new addendum to his testimony it is pretty compelling because with his new addendum he explicitly said there was a quid pro quo between the trump administration and the ukrainians. call it extortion or bribery, it is all the same thing when the president used his powers to freeze military aid, to dangle a critical meeting between the white house and the ukrainian leader in exchange for launching two bogus investigations. sondland did admit in the addendum the meeting would only come in exchange for investigations, although he doesn t use the term extortion or bribery or quid pro quo. john bolton s lawyer said today that his clients, that mr. bolton, the former national security adviser has significant insights into matters involved in the impeachment inquiry but he will not testify until a court resolves whether or not he has to comply with the subpoena. should you, democrats leading the inquiry wait until you could