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Zelensky, assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail donwn a date for the visit to washington. good luck. on august 9th, sondland messages volker. i think potus really wants the deliverable. going on to suggest volker should ask for the ukrainian president's aid in crafting a, quote, draft statement so we can see exactly what they propose to cover. volker will also appear on tuesday. >> kurt volker, let's remember, is a former career foreign service officer. kurt volker knew what normal policy looks like. >> reporter: the ...

Peace. so now the tiny extremely thin read the defenders will argue is, okay, yeah, it was a quid pro quo and that's fine because it was about corruption. the thing the trump administration was trying to get was a commitment from ukraine to look into corruption. generally that would be fine if it was generally corruption and it's the last minor plausible argument they could conceivably make but that is totally belied by the documentary evidence we now have before us. we know this from the text messages produced by u.s. special envoy to ukraine kurt volker. on august 12th, a top aide to the pre...

That were specifically being demanded of them by rudy giuliani and president trump and they were investigations that were designed to help president trump's domestic political considerations. here for example -- it's all -- we've got it now. here's a three-way text conversation between gordon sondland and kurt volker, the ukraine envoy, and another ukrainian official. the ukrainian government at this point has sent over a draft statement they're proposing that their president could make announcing vaguely that ukraine will look into interference in political processes of the u.s. and a transpa...

Weeks." and when he says the anti-corruption statement we know from the context here, we know in part from the huge raft of text messages that were just released by the committees today that when ambassador sondland, even in his revised testimony calls it a public anti-corruption statement, we know he was well aware that what he was demanding of the ukrainian government was that they announce investigations that were specifically being demanded of them by rudy giuliani and president trump and they were investigations that were designed to help president trump's domestic political consideration...

Investigate and get to the bottom of what happened in 2016. we'll nail down a date for the visit to washington. good luck. on august 9, a text from ambassador sondland to volker. i think potus want the deliverable. going onto suggest volker should ask ukraine for a draft statement. so that we can see exactly what they propose to cover. >> it basically substantiated every aspect of the whistleblower's complaint. that the president of the united states cohearsed a foreign power to help himself politically. >> republicans hear something different. >> there was no quid pro quo. >> in more than nin...