communications with ambassadors volker and sondland, they relayed to me that the president wanted to hear from zelensky before scheduling the meeting in the oval office. it was not clear to me what this meant. on june 27th, ambassador sondland told me during a phone conversation that president zelensky needed to make clear to president trump that he, president zelensky, was fought standing in the way of investigations. i sensed something odd when ambassador sondland told me on june 28th that he did not wish to include most of the regular inner agency participants in a call planned with president zelensky later that day. ambassador sondland, ambassador volker, secretary perry and i were on this call dialing in from different locations. however, ambassador sondland said he wanted to make sure no one was tran strike or monitoring as they added president zelensky to the call. also, before president zelensky
communications with ambassadors volker and sondland they relayed to me that the president wanted to hear from zelensky before scheduling the meeting in the oval office. it was not clear to me what this meant. on june 27th ambassador sondland told me during a phone conversation that president zelensky needed to make clear to president trump that he, president zelensky was not standing in the way of investigations. i sensed something odd when ambassador sondland told me on june 28th he did not wish to include most of the regular interagency participants in a call planned with president zelensky later that day. ambassador sondland, volker, secretary perry and i were on this call dialing in from different locations. ambassador sondland said he wanted to make sure no one was tribing or monitoring as they added president zelensky to the