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Meeting, they get the money. its not two plus two. its 0 for 3. ive never seen anything like that and you told mr. castor that the president never told you that the announcement had to happen to get anything. in fact he didnt just not tell you that. he exquisitely said the opposi opposite. the gentleman from texas just read it. you said to the president of the united states, what do you want from ukraine? the president : i want nothing. i want no quid pro quo. i want zelensky to do the right thi...

That three people were involved, and those three people refused to testify adds deny it, the fact will infer that the witnesses comments were true, because of they werent true -- >> neil: even if they put up press statements to the effect -- >> a press statement is not tested by cross-examination. it will not carry water. what will carry water is the picture that gordon sondland painted today of our president willing to trade and seek political favors in return for something of national security...

"i dont want anything, i wanted to do the right thing." referring to zelensky. during that testimony, bret, there was the comment he offered about ex-president pens when he went to poland on the 1st of september. i want to bring this to your attention now. the vice presidents office put out a statement in real time during this hearing. i will share part of that with you. full-screen number 9a, put on screen here in a moment. three different sentences. "the vice president never had a conversation...

>> to the white house meeting. >> and lisa kenna responds, gord gordon, ill pass to s. and s is secretary pompeo? >> correct. >> thank you, lisa. now, two days later, you have a text exchange with ambassador volker again. and this is at the end of it. but the earlier text which we dont have here, you may recall, includes the press statement, the revised press statement that includes burisma and the 2016 election. do you recall that? >> yes, if i could see it, that would be helpful. but yes. >> s...

Responded that he asked to set up the call for the next day, is that right? >> thats what it says. >> now, lets go to that press statement that you were discussing in august. and you testified, i believe, that you understood that b rudy giuliani was representing the presidents interests with regard to ukraine, is that right? >> thats what we all understood. >> and "we all," who do you mean, "we all"? >> secretary perry, ambassador volker, myself. >> in august, you and ambassador volkeram were co...

Sondland became aware of the suspension of security assistance to ukraine, which had been announced on a secure interagency video conference on july 18th, telling us that it was extremely odd that nobody involved in making and implementing policy toward ukraine knew why the aid had been put on hold. during august, sondland participated in conference calls and text messages with volker and giuliani, who said that the gist of every call was what was going to go in the press statement. in august 9,...

Democrats put you through this. you have served your country way and the kind of diplomat we want serving and heres -- heres one of the saddest things about what the democrats are putting us through, you two guys who are here telling it straight you both decided you will step out of government because of what these guys are doing and thats the sad thing. people like ambassador volker and tim morrison who have served our country so well are now stepping out of our government because of what these...

Saddest things what the democrats are putting us through, you two guys who are here telling it straight, you both decided to step out of the government because of what these guys are doing and that is the sad thing. they are now stepping out of our government because of what these guys are doing and that is why mr. turner got so fired up and why i am so fired up because we appreciate what you guys did. i yield back. >> ambassador volker, i want to focus on the press statement that president trum...

You testified a little bit about you have served our country the june 28th conference call that you had with ambassador well. and heres the saddest, one of sondland, ambassador taylor, im the saddest things about all this what the democrats are putting us through, you two guys not sure if deputy secretary kent was on the line. who are here telling it >> i dont believe so. straight, you both decided >> and secretary perry before youre going to step out of you looped in president government becaus...

>> i mean, there have been rumors out there about things like that. but, you know, there was nothing hard. at least nothing that i was aware of. >> there was nothing based in fact to support these allegations. >> right. yes. >> and, in fact, who was responsible for interfering and meddling in the 2016 election? >> well, the u.s. intelligence community has concluded that it was russia. >> ambassador yovanovitch, are you aware that in february of 2017, vladimir putin himself promoted this theory o...