Obligation to account fully for my role in these events. Did by obligation, you mean simply your legal obligation . Or did you mean something bigger . Well, both my legal obligation and my moral obligation. Your moral obligation . I actually want to present an alternative theory. Your family came here escaping the holocaust via uruguay. And your parents moved lucy and later you here where, frankly, youve been an american success story. Through dent of hard work and innovation, good idea, and knack to hire the right people and some luck, youve built a considerable successful business. One that i know for a fact would make your parents proud. They came here because they knew
that it was here that they could have freedom that they had not enjoyed, security that they had not enjoyed, and opportunity that they had not enjoyed. And no doubt, on some level, youre grateful and its created a sense of patriotism in you. Is that fair to say . Very fair. Why then, sir, with your courage to come be
two plus two equals four. you believe you have some evidence that the ukrainians first inquired about security assistance to someone in your office on july 25 of this year is that right? that s correct. july 25 is also the day that president trump officially talked to president zelensky where investigations of the bideens were brought up is that right? i know what has been reported. that was reportrd is that right? that s correct. the july 25 call between zelensky and trump is the most important fact in this entire inquiry. it has the president s own words. it s his summation. and says what was the nature of the conversation. i found the phone call unusual. in contrast to other calls i observe is it involved discussion of a political matter. the transcript set off alarm
what your customers are feeling. and then do something about it. turn problems into opportunities. thanks drone. customers into fanatics change the whole experience. alright who wants to go again? i do! i do! i have a really good feeling about this. so on july 10 of the white house, sondland, bolton, hill are meet wg top ukraine officials. this meeting is at the center of everything. essentially. these ukraine officials came to the white house thinking they were going to cement this relationship with the united states. sondland ambassador to the eu starts to turn the conversation to the investigations that president trump and rudy giuliani want. to the best of my recollection sondland said in order to get a white house meeting the ukrainians would have to provide a deliverable.
makes himself to president zelenski in a phone call in saying the aid is on the way. if he talked to the administration or their republican allies, they say the concerns had finally been tamped down. they had finally been assured by the ukrainian officials that they were going to change and they were committed to reform. if you talk to democrats or critic of the administration, they say it s much more nefarious than that and it had to do with much more than that. they were going to investigate what rudy giuliani was doing and the whistleblower complaint. i m going to pick up on the conversation in which the president allegedly said i want nothing, i don t want a quid pro quo. i presume that on this september 9th conversation, the president did not mention that that was the same day that we launched a congressional investigation into whether there was a quid pro
few days before the aide was released is bleak. for some officials like ambassador taylor, they were potentially on the verge of quitting their jobs. taylor is extremely concerned. and he gordon sondland is having a conversation with the president during this time in which the president tries to make clear to him that there s no quid pro quo. i finally called the president. i believe it was on the 9th of september. i can t find the records, and they won t provide them to me. but i believe i just asked him an open-ended question, mr. chairman. what do you want from ukraine? i keep hearing all these different ideas and theories and this and that, what do you want? it was a very short abrupt conservation. he was not in a very good mood. he said i want nothing, i want