and bill taylor in his testimony giving credence to was ambassador sondland of the eu said, the push to make president saying everything else was zelensky publicly commit to basically just leaked to the investigations of burisma and media and we can t verify it as fact. allowed interference in the 2016 these are allso the republican election showed how official talking points circulating policy of the united states was around capitol hill where they undercut by the ir rell efforts led by mr. giuliani. say, we don t know this is the truth of the matter and we mr. giuliani insisted he worked should use it moving forward. with these people, not over a lot of democrats wanted this them. i discussed with them. hearing from the beginning, the statement is clearly from since donald trump took office, the text, they re idea, not my she can t hold weight on it. idea. they asked me my advice about the text. i didn t tell them, he must, he those republicans who know should, he has to, he must
convicted felon, donald trump s first national security advisor, michael flynn. is rudy giuliani next? before ambassador william taylor testified today rudy giuliani was already under federal criminal investigation for his back channel dealings with ukraine along with two of his associates, lev parnas and igor fruman. lev and ignor will be arraigned tomorrow. they ll surely be studying the transcript of today s deposition with ambassador william taylor for more evidence of what rudy giuliani has been up to. we have access only to ambassador taylor s opening statement in what became ten hours of testimony. in that opening statement ambassador taylor said, the push to make president zelensky publicly commit to investigations of burisma and the uh-uh ledged interference in the 2016 election showed how the
people. naming ambassador gordon sondland, former special envoy kurt volker, the president s personal attorney rudy giuliani and energy secretary rick perry. according to his prepared remarks, taylor explained the significance to president trump of ukrainian probes into the last presidential election. as well as the ukraine energy firm where hunter biden sat on the board. quote: the push to make president zelensky publicly commit to investigations of burisma and the alleged interference in the 2016 election showed how the official foreign policy of the united states was undercut by ther rig efforts led by mr. giuliani. taylor went further relaying second hand information about what he described as a september conversation between mr. trump and the administration s point manafort european union. quote: president trump told ambassador sondland that he was not asking for a quid pro quo. but president trump did insist that president zelensky go to a microphone and say he is opening investi