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Giuliani. Mr. Giuliani said they thought ukraine should make a statement about Fighting Corruption and mr. Yermac provided me a draft statement and i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. Giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to President Trump and solve this problem that i had observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. The problem being that hes getting bad set of information. A Statement Like this could potentially correct that. So was mr. Giuliani satisfied with this statement . N...

What does the president want to know . Did he ask about ukraines efforts to battle corruption . Of course not. Did he ask how the war with russia was going . Not a chance. On the phone, his voice loud enough, President Trump asked sondland, is hes going to do the investigation . The answer was clear. He ensured trump that the ukrainian president was going to do it and that he would do anything you asked him to. If that wasnt telling enough, my colleagues, in a conversation that followed, an american Diplomat Dining with sondland asked if it was true that President Trump didnt give a blank abou...

Didn't work so well. then it was bribery extortion. then they brought witnesses in and not one could answer if they saw any evidence of bribery, extortion, or any crime when questioned. there was silence. the witnesses always testified i heard this from so-and-so. when the democrats brought their star witness income ambassador sondland, when he asked he said i presume the aide was held up. i presume? testimony was all hearsay, conjecture, and assumptions. now it's abuse of power with no underlying crime, which is opinion. abuse of power to the diagram rats is they don't like his policies or he...

Discussion about not -- there not being a full throated embrace of the ukrainian reform agenda. is that fair? >> yes, congressman. >> okay. but with respect to his concern about something improper, specifically at no point did he come to you and say i heard something that i thought was improper and was a crime. >> sir, i have no recollection of him doing that. >> no bribe, no extortion, no quid pro quo? >> no, sir. >> all right. and as you were listening, did you hear president trump make a demand of anything that would constitute a crime? >> sir, i've been trying to stay on the same side of m...

Were listening to the call you weren't thinking wow the president's bribing the president of ukraine. >> that never crossed your mind. >> it did, not sir. >> or that he was extorting the president of ukraine. or doing anything improper. >> correct, sir. >> have you read where president zelensky agrees with you and said repeatedly and consistently he didn't hear any demand, he didn't hear any conditions, he didn't feel any pressure, he didn't experience anything improper or corrupt on the call? >> sir, i attended the bilat in new york in the general eassembly and he made clear at the time he fe...