reporter: david boney continued and then told him he used to be a state trooper. at the end of that day, did you know him by name? no, i didn t know his full name until our second chance meeting. reporter: that meeting was in september, boney said, about a week or so before the murders. they ran into each other at a convenience store and got to talking in the parking lot. the gist of our conversation was about, are you employed? are you staying out of trouble? and then, it evolved into, well, what types of things did you do to get in prison in the first place? he was creating his own form of intel. he was learning quite a few things about charles boney. reporter: boney told him he d been inside for robbery. and when i slowly started to let him know about some of the things that i did in the past, he asked me, well, are you still able to get untraceable weapons? untraceable. that s, that s what it led to, i m just . a clean, clean gun. a clean gun. throw
look like and whether the facts will be completely different and new elements will come out, new witnesses will come forward before they re drafted is a big question mark. for people that consume this and it all starts to sound the same and drip together, the very interesting piece of news that is being reported tonight by newspapers is that the president caught wind of the fact there was a whistle-blower complaint. he knew the gist of it and then released the money and said to gordon sondland and others, no quid pro quo. the idea that the money was released because they knew there was an investigation going to be happening. right. and in some ways there was already evidence of this. we know that the democrats had announced an investigation of ukraine matters on september 9th, two days before the aid gets released, but this tells you even more that the president and his team was aware at least in a broad way of what the whistle-blower had concerns about. and so we now know a new el
there was sort of a change in circumstances that it would seem to me that tmd warrant maybe a second look. and that s exactly what played out for a short time, less than two months and 55 days, our government evaluated the new situation, pretty radical change, you got a new government. in fact, the previous one, we ve heard all kind of things from the democrats about the prosecutor general and the poroshenko regime and mr. lutsenko and how bad it was. so it took a while for that all to happen. new president s sworn in. two months later, the new conference comes in and it takes them a while and it s not about september 5th, and gist a few days late later, but it s
ambassador volker told us that the next five years could hang on what could be accomplished in the next three months. i took it to me if we did not earn president trump s support in the next three months we could lose the opportunity to make progress during president zelensky s five-year term. within a week or two it became apparent the energy sector reforms, commercial deals and the anti-corruption efforts on which we were making progress were not making a dent in terms of persuading the white house to schedule a meeting between the presidents. on june 27th ambassador sondland told ambassador taylor the gist of which he shared with me at the time that president zelensky needed to make clear to president trump that president zelensky was not standing in the way of quote investigations. i understood that this meant the biden/burisma investigations that mr. giuliani and his associates were speaking about in the media since march. while ambassador taylor did not
ambassador volker told us the next five years would determine the next three months in a week or two it became aparent that the energy sector reforms, the commercial deals, and the anti-corruption efforts on which we were making progress were not making aot dent. on june 27th ambassador sondland told ambassador taylor the gist of what was shared with me at theit time that president zeleny needed to make clear that he was not standing in the way ofns investigations. i took this to mean that the biden investigations they had been speaking about in the media