ukraine's most important strategic asset and that president zelensky should not jeopardize that bipartisan support by getting drawn into u.s. domestic politicles. i had been making and continue to make this point to all of my official ukrainian contacts. but the odd push to make president zelensky publicly commit to investigation of burst and alleged interference in the 2016 election shows how foreign policy was undercut by irregular efforts led by mr. guiliani. two days later, september 7th, i had a conversation with mr. morrison in which he described a phone conversation earlier that day between ambassador sondlad and president trump. mr. morrison said he had a sinking feeling after learning about this conversation from ambassador sondland. according to mr. morrison, president trump told ambassador sondland he was not asking for a quid pro quo.