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Through the formal systems theres a lot of questions here but these are a distraction, a sideshow from what we are really concerned about witches implementation of president trumps national defense strategy and making sure we are protecting americas interest both at home and abroad. >> trace: what is your biggest concern? you say there is a list of them but what are we focusing on here? at a gallows eddie gallagher ia distraction, what should we be focusing on? >> the increased politicization of...

Buying into these notions. >> okay, ive noticed. by the way, the people that believe in a conspiracy theory, they believe in all of them. >> thats probably true. >> at the outset the drive to advance -- and trump is one of them. anyway, trumps political agenda in ukraine was described as a separate irregular channel of foreign diplomacy. heres ambassador taylor. >> there appeared to be two channels of u.s. policymaking and implementation, one regular and one highly irregular. the official policy...

And implementation, one regular and one highly irregular. >> one of the main players to help carry it out came clean to congress yesterday. and not only pointed fingers at those high up in the white house for their involvement in the scheme -- remember, he said everybody knew about it. but trump donor and ambassador gordon sondland directly implicates the president in the scheme. >> so we followed the presidents orders. was there a quid pro quo? the answer is yes. everyone was in the loop. >> at...

Next day. david holmes told us just today about it. he overheard the presidents ambassador to the eu gordon sondland talking to the president of the united states from a restaurant in kyiv. the president followed up with him after his own call with zelensky. heres what mr. holmes says he heard. >> i could hear the presidents voice through the ear piece of the phone. ambassador sondland replied yes, he was in ukraine and went on to state that president zelensky, quote, loves your ass. i then hear...

And kosovo. as the political counselor at the u.s. embassy in kyiv, i lead the political section covering ukraines internal politics, foreign relations and security policies. and i serve as the senior policy and political ambassador to the -- adviser to the ambassador. the job of an embassy political counselor is to gather information about the host countrys political landscape, to report back to washington, to represent u.s. policies to foreign contacts and to advise the ambassador on policy de...

As the political counselor in kiev i lead the political section covering ukraines internal politics, foreign relations and security policies. and i serve as the senior policy and political ambassador -- adviseor to the ambassador. the job of an embassy political counselor is to gather information about the host countrys political landscape. to report back to washington to represent u.s. policies to foreign contacts and to advise the ambassador of policy development and implementation. in this ro...

The implementation there is there was a quid pro quo. he lays out that he told the ukrainians that they werent going to get the aid unless they investigated the bidens. that, in fact, is pr sh. that is, in fact, leaning on somebody, a shakedown or what you would call a quid pro quo. so youre talking about threading the needle by suggesting it wasnt the bidens. how else do you think that sondland could navigate this without ending up in legal jeopardy? i talked to jim baker a little while ago. ba...

Implementation of needed reforms. i found myself faced with the choice, to be aware of a problem and to ignore it or to accept that it was my responsibility to try to fix it. i tried to fix it. the problem was that despite the unanimous positive assessment and recommendations of those of us who were part of the u.s. presidential delegation that attended the inauguration of president zelensky, president trump was receiving a different negative narrative about ukraine and president zelensky. that ...

With, you are not part of an irregular channel, arent you the official channel? >> that is correct. >> explain how you are the official channel? >> i was appointed by the secretary of state. a secretary tillerson in july 2017 to be the u.s. special representative for the ukraine negotiations. that is different from executive secretary of state or different from ambassador in ukraine. that role is particularly focused on the diplomatic activity surrounding the efforts to reverse russias engagemen...

Up ukraines fight against corruption and implementation of needed reforms. i found myself faced with a choice, to be aware of a problem and to ignore it or to accept that it was my responsibility to try to fix it. i tried to fix it. the problem was that despite the unanimous positive assessment and recommendations of those of us who were part of the u.s. presidential delegation that attended the inauguration of president zelenskyy, president trump was receiving a different negative narrative abo...