ukraine. talk about loud enough to be over heard at times. sondland actually held the phone away from his ear the president was talking so loud. according to the testimony quote i heard sondland greet the president. and explain he was calling from kiev. i heard president trump clarify that the ambassador was in ukraine. ambassador sondland replied yes. and wept onto state president zelensky quote loves your and quote. he s going to do the investigation? the day after he had asked directly the president to do the investigations. ambassador sondland replied that he s going to do that. adding president zelensky will do anything you ask him to. the call ended holmes continues. i asked sondland if it was true the president didn t give a about ukraine. i asked why not. ambassador sondland stated that
that cnn obtained is detailed in several places and damming and wide ranging. you talk about the meeting that taylor first testified about earlier this week. we have plenty of details on that. the holmes statement goes significantly further than that. it talks about the decision to with hold security aide. saying at one point bolton made clear in a private meeting that president trump was likely unwilling to lift the hold unless he was quote favorably impressed by meeting with president zelensky. that was in the offering in a short order. he went in depth about recollection in comments from others about rudy giuliani. someone we heard about from yovanovitch. saying someone wondered allowed about why he was so active in the media with respect to the ukraine. sondland stated every time he gets involved he goes and fs everything up. it s not just the the meeting. but it was the testimony of
appalled. devastated. that the president of the united states would take any ambassador like that to a foreign head of state. and it was me. i couldn t believe it. what did you think when president trump told president zelensky and you read that you were going to go some things? i didn t know what to think. i was very concerned. what were you concerned about? she s going to go through some things it didn t sound good. it sounded like a threat. did you feel threatened? i did. yovanovitch told the committee about the lack of support she saw from secretary of state pompeo. in the face of the smear campaign did colleagues try to get statement of support for you from pompeo? yes. were they successful?