about the investigations. ambassador sondland told president trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. following the call with president trump, the member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what president trump thought about ukraine. ambassador sondland responded that president trump cares more about the investigations of biden, which giuliani was pressing for. at the time i gave my deposition on october 22nd, i was not aware of this information. i'm including it here for completeness. >> reporter: that incident taking place just one day after the infamous call between presidents trump and zelensky in which trump asked for a favor and for ukraine to investigate the bidens. taylor and george kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, over the course of half a day laying out for lawmakers what they saw and heard as the trump administration held up military aid and dangled a white house meeting while demanding political investigations. >> i encountered an irregular, informal channel of u.s. policymaking with respect to