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Aid unless they opened up investigations that the white house was recommending. we all know the only two investigations that the president mentioned to president zelensky was the investigation into the bidens and the investigation that would re-litigate the 2016 election. now the ukrainians are going to try to put a spin on this. they wont accuse the president of extortion. they are presently reliant on the good will of trump in order to keep their country safe. they cant take on the president b...

Legacy. if it comes out he mislead the committee in his initial testimony or outright lied. there are real consequences for him down the line. >> holmes, david holmes who testified friday, he said he was a note taker for the meeting that you and senator ron johnson had with zelensky of ukraine. holmes testified that senator johnson told zelensky he was shocked by president trumps negative view of ukraine that zelensky, in his view, would have a difficult time overcoming. what was zelenskys respo...

I think were going to learn that sondland, as we already know, was pretty regularly talking to the president and, in addition, rudy giuliani and mick mulvaney were talking to the president and they were telli volker and others to carry out the orders. >> they told ukrainian news agencies that ambassador sondland did not tell us and me about a connection between the assistance and the investigations. i have never seen a direct relationship between investigations and security assistance." yes, the...

Trying to he trying to help him secure a meeting with the president to help the aid flow once more. i reminded him it wont help ukraine for them to get involved in american elections and he shouldnt be listening to giulianis corrupt request and he agreed. he understood that ukraine needed to stay out of american politics. but, of course, it was life and death that the security aid did get turned on. he was going to have soldiers dying as they were during the time we were there on the border. so,...

Any offense. the first two permanent diplomats had no direct knowledge, just overhearing things. the third had no knowledge, not even hearsay. this is a travesty." what is your response to mr. giuliani? >> well, the crimes and the offenses that have been detailed in this testimony are absolutely damming. its clear what happened. the president was using taxpayer dollars, security aid to ukraine, at a white house meeting in order to extort the you cran began president trying to interfere in the 20...

Them to testify before the committee. the white house is violating the law in keeping them from the impeachment inquiry. why? they know those are the individuals who were actually getting most of the direct orders from the president and they dont want that to be on the record. so the white house cant have it both ways. the white house cant say well, you know, mick mulvaney and giuliani arent testifying. theres a reason. the white house is prohibiting them. >> kent and taylor didnt say they were ...

The course of this weekend and what we heard in the public hearings, help us understand how pivotal that testimony is likely to be on wednesday. >> i think of all the witnesses well see, gordon sondland is most anticipated because hes changed his testimony so far. he testified behind closed doors in a deposition. in the interim, the other witnesses that have come forward offering conflicting testimony that he has now had to adjust to. i now recall he says telling a ukrainian official they needed...

Witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. closed door testimony from tim morison paints a picture of john bolton working feverishly during a secret august meeting trying to convince him to release the $391 million in security aid to ukraine. investigators say u.s. ambassadors to the eu says he believes he was acting in president trumps direction urging ukraine to announce political investigations. tim morison was on the july 25th phone call, raised red flags, telling government lawyers it could be d...

Undercuts the defense that the president was merely interested in rooting out corruption in ukraine. according to this testimony, what the president was dead set on was ukraine investigating joe biden. also in this testimony, erin, david holmes testifies about this aide, and there were roughly $400 million in security aid that had been withheld and he says that president zelensky of ukraine was supposed to go on cnn and make an announcement that this investigation was going to happen. he makes c...

Security aid including the possibility that john bolton thought a meeting with trump and making president trump happy was the only way it could be released but also goes into detail about some of the issues they were facing that you heard a lot about today from marie yovanovitch and that is specifically related to rudy giuliani, the presidents personal attorney. at one point in his testimony, he says, quote, someone wondered aloud why mr. giuliani was so active in the media with respect to ukrai...