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Either to express dissatisfaction that the ukrainians had not yet agreed to the burisma/biden investigations or as an effort to increase the pressure on them to do so. so holmes' impression, at least based on what he saw and what he was involved in, the hold was explicitly related to the opening of investigations and the president's pressure to do just that. there's also another element of that. there's the security assistance but there's also something we've heard a lot about in the last couple of days and that is the scheduled interview, television interview with cnn to announce the said inv...

Following up a day after this phone call with zelensky to check on the investigation that tells you exactly where the president was and what he cared about. >> they're checking on an announcement of an investigation. it's very important for us to remember that these guys weren't really interested in an investigation, because under normal circumstance e s, if you want an investigation you do it through channel and you do a quiet investigation so you can do a legal, defensible investigation. what they wanted was for the new president of ukraine to go to a microphone, to go to cnn, a mainstream o...

We're following the breaking news. a very, very significant statement, this opening statement, a copy of which cnn has obtained by david holmes, the u.s. counselor for political affairs at the u.s. embassy in ukraine. he was having lunch at a restaurant with the u.s. ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland, when gordon sondland phoned the president of the united states on his cell phone. the president of course spoke to gordon sondland, said some potentially very incriminating things about wanting to make sure that the ukrainians launched a political investigation into the bidens and that was se...

The breaking news cnn has just obtained the bombshell ten-page single spaced opening statement from the u.s. official who overheard the phone conversation between the president of the united states and the u.s. ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland, over at a restaurant in ukraine. joining us now, congressman jamie raskin a democrat on the oversight and judiciary committees. he was inside this closed-door deposition. congressman, thanks very much for joining us. i'm going to read one little paragraph from this ten-page document, this opening statement from david holmes, the u.s. co...

It. there had to have been awareness at high level. the other piece that really stood out to me is the fact that this was not the only call. not the only time. yes, he asked the ukrainian president to look for dirt on his opponent. what about his calls with mohammed bin salman? his calls with president pootut and duterte from the philippines? people not aligned with the views or values of the united states? has he asked them for information? where's that? also in the same server? to me, could be the tip of the iceberg. we don't know. a lot more questions i think, adam schiff will ask, journali...