Mr. Chairman id like to begin by following up on something that you have disclosed today and disclosed early yr to both majority, minority. But it is some new information for the committee. You said in your testimony that one of your staff was present with ambassador sondland on the day after the july 25th phone call, is that right . Thats correct, mr. Chairman. And as your staff related the event to you, your staff member could overhear mr. Sondland and the phone over hear the president on the phone . Thats correct. So the president must have been speaking loud enough on the phone. This was a cell phone . It was a cell phone. The president must have been speaking loud enough for your staff member to be able to over hear this . It was. And what your staff member could over hear was President Trump asking ambassador sondland about, quote, the investigations, is that right . Thats correct. I think you testified also that you had come to understand that the term, investigations, was a ter
Uptown girl. Shes been living in her uptown world. Ill bet she never had a back street guy. Ill bet her mama never told her why. Im going to try for an uptown girl. Shes been living in her white bread world. Lauren welcome to fbn a. M. Good morning. Im lauren simonetti. The webbing which march equity market opened. Lauren happy veterans day to all those who served out there. The dow is down 102 points, s p is down 10, a third of 1 , nasdaq giving up 36 this morning. Thats about half of 1 in the red. Deirdre if you look, a sea of red in the asian markets right now, the nikkei, shanghai and hang seng all moving lower, this as part in tensions in hong kong soar again. Lauren good news for the u. K. Economy, the they avoid a recession, gdp in the latest quarter growing. The ftse 100 is down a half of 1 . The cac is up a point. Thats good news, i suppose. Deirdre well take it. Lauren he lets start with a bullish bull issue on the u. S. Economy. Jamie dimon talking up the strength of the u.
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
Promised there would at some oint be open hearings. The two other chairmen have agreefment when and how in depth and how far along, how much those opening hearings will matter is anybodys guess at this point because they do seem to be putting together a case. Pretty much in private downstairs in a small room. Well continue foul on twitter house in session. And your report, thanks so much. Cspan will continue follow odays impeachment related updates. That will improve our standing in that regard. I want to congratulate congresswoman lofgren for the work of her committee on the uestion of shielding us from language in the particular says if a candidate or any individual affiliated with a campaign of a candidate knowingly receives an offer for assistance with the campaign from a source the candidate or individual knows is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power, the candidate or individual shall refuse the offer for such assistance and notify the federal bureau of investigation of
Some of it is redacted as you can see the black marks here. We dont know what it is. There is a reference to military aid that was suspended, essentially, or put on hold to ukraine that is raised in the whistleblower complaint. That is at the heart of what some have described as potential quid pro quo, one the president has denied. Let me explain what that is. The United States had been set to deliver this military assistance to ukraine. The president did ask for that to be reviewed. That was not because of anything nefarious, per se, the president wanted to get other allies onboard but it is notable it is raised in the complaint as we take a look inside the hearing room. This issue of Rudy Giuliani repeatedly being mentioned is of concern. The president , when i asked him about his personal attorney over the last 24 hours fiercely defended Rudy Giuliani. He did not try to distance himself from his lawyer who, as this complaint describes and as giuliani himself acknowledges, talked wit