in that clip you saw you saw secretary of state james baker in the oval office with him. withlked with -- we talked secretary baker about his memories from that day, about being in the oval office that day and what it was like to watch the fall of the berlin wall from the white house. this is secretary baker from houston, texas, talking about where he was when he heard about the news on november 9, 1989. [video] >> i was hosting a lunch for the president of the philippines in the dining room at the top of the state department. hers hosting a lunch for when an aide passed me a note saying the instrument government has just announced -- east has justvernment announced they will permit traffic from east germany to west germany. i read the note to the assembled group of the table. proposed a toast and then excused myself to go to the white house to meet with the president. host: do you were member what you said in the toast? >> i don't remember the words of the toast except it probably spoke to the importance of the to the concept of freedom presidentall american , democratic

chance to meet with president erdogan for several hours in that meeting also included a meeting in the oval office with a handful of g.o.p. senders. many lawmakers say they remain troubled over turkey's decision to purchase a russian-made missile defense system and that purchase has stopped turkey from being able to buy the f-35 jet. president trump was also asked about another issue that is troubled so many here in washington and that was turkey's recent invasion into northeastern syria i'm a region that was home to the kurds, a u.s. ally who spent years fighting isis in syria. >> we have a shortage other than turkey will continue to uphold what it is supposed to hope upholds. i'm a big fan of the president to tell you that. i know that the cease-fire, while complicated is moving forward and moving forward at a very rapid clip. >> sources tell fox news that lindsey graham had "several tense exchanges with turkish president during their oval office meeting, senator graham's office put out a statement and i'll show you what his office had to say. i realize turkey has legitimate national secu

what do you think was going on in the oval office late today? marine one is idling. and it's not quiet when it is. it's very clear your ride has arrived if you're the president but he stayed behind in the oval office and, again, all we saw was gesticulation and both men with his ag talking in the oval office. >> yeah, brian, to be a fly on that curved wall, right? >> yeah, exactly, the wall with no corners. >> we don't know what was being discussed in that moment but there are a couple of things to keep in mind about attorney general barr. he's in the middle of personally overseeing this investigation into the investigation that the probe that the justice department has launched into the origins of the russia investigation, something that president trump cares very deeply about. perhaps that came up in the discussion, something that barr himself has traveled to several foreign countries to try to get to the bottom of. there is a desire on the president's conservative allies for the conclusion of that investigation to be reached sometime this fall as a way to detract

nor should they bring summaries to the oval office.bring paper then powerpoint was preferred because he's a visual learner. okay, that's fine many thought to themselves, leaders like to absorb information in different ways. then officials were told that powerpoint decks needed to be slimmed down. the president couldn't digest too many slides. he needed more images and fewer words. then they were told to cut back issues to just three main points. that was still too much. soon west wing aides were exchanging best practices for success in the oval office. the most salient advice, forget the three points. come in with one main point and repeat it over and over again even if the president inevitably goes off on tangents, repeat until he gets it. steer the subject back to it. one point, just that one point because you cannot focus the commander in chief's attention on more than one gosh darn thing over the course of a meeting, okay? some officials refused to believe this is how it worked. are you serious, they asked, quizzing others who brie

it is an honor to have you at the white house come here in the oval office. we have a meeting coming up in a little while where you will have your representatives and i will have my representatives. they have purchased a lot of military equipment from the united states, the best equipment in the world. and i look forward to our meeting. >> [indiscernible] >> that is very good. we have a big nato meeting coming up. we have had a very good relationship. we are going to formalize some things. the relationship we have with all gary has been very strong. great people. -- with bulgaria has been very strong. great people. >> [indiscernible] >> we have been thinking about that for a long time. that did not just happen. i have to protect my war fighters. a lot of were fighters and people in the military have thanked us very much. it is about time. i had one young man in for six years. he had many years to go. a lot of people did not think we should be there. with eddie gallagher, you know the story well. not take itwould away. he was a great writer. an ultimate fighte

in that clip you saw you saw secretary of state james baker in the oval office with him. withlked with -- we talked secretary baker about his memories from that day, about being in the oval office that day and what it was like to watch the fall of the berlin wall from the white house. this is secretary baker from houston, texas, talking about where he was when he heard about the news on november 9, 1989. [video] >>

trump congratulated president zelensky on his election victory and invited him to a meeting in the oval office. once i arrived in kiev i discovered confusing and alarming circumstances. first the encouraging, president zelensky was reforming ukraine in a hurry. he appointed reformist ministers and supported long-stalled anti corruption legislation. he took quick executive action in terms of opening the high anti corruption court with a new parliamentary, he changed the ukrainian constitution to remove absolutely immunity from the source of raw corruption for two decades. the excitement in kiev was palpable. this time could be different, a new ukraine finally breaking from its corrupt post soviet past. yet, i found the confusing and unusual arrangement for making u.s. policy towards ukraine. there appeared to be two channels of u.s. policy making and implementation, one regular and one highly irregular. as the acting ambassador, i had authority over the regular, formal diplomatic processes including the bulk of the u.s. effort to support ukraine against russian invasion and help it defea

i was seeking to solve the problem i saw when we met with president trump in the oval office on may 23rd. as a professional diplomat, i was comfortable exploring whether there was a statement ukraine could make about its own intentions to investigate possible corruption that would be helpful in convince plg giuliani could con take to mr. trump a positive assessment of the new leadership in ukraine. on august 16th, he shared a draft with me which i thought looked perfectly reasonable. it did not mention burisma or 2016 elections but was generic. ambassador sondland and i had a conversation with mr. giuliani who said in his view in order to be convincing that this government represented real change in ukraine, the statement should include specific reference to burisma and 2016. again, there was no mention of vice president biden in these conversations. ambassador sondland and i discussed the points and i ended the statement drafted by mr. yermoc to include the points to see how it looked. i then discussed it further with mr. yermoc. he said for a number of reasons including the fact that h

trump congratulated president zelensky on his election victory and invited him to a meeting in the oval office. once i arrived in kiev, i discovered a weird combination of encouraging, confusing and ultimately alarming sessions. first the encouraging, president zelensky was reforming ukraine in a hurry. he appointed reformist minsters and supported long-stalled anti-corruption legislation. he took quick executive action, including opening ukraine's high anti-corruption court. with a new parliamentary majority stemming from snap elections, president zelensky changed the ukrainian constitution as to remove absolute immunity from deputies, the source of raw corruption for two decades. the excitement in kiev was palpable. this time could be different, a you new ukraine finally breaking from its corrupt post-soviet past. and yet, i found it confusing and unusual arrangement for making u.s. policy towards ukraine. there appeared to be two channels of u.s. polymake and implementation. one regular and one highly irregular. as the acting ambassador, i have authority over the regular formal diplo

oval office. shortly after that, a photographer caught barr talking with white house counsel. here for our lead off discussion, phillip rucker is here with us in new york. in washington tamyra keith, white house correspondent for npr and peter baker, our correspondent for the new york times and coauthor of "impeachment" book. >> phil, i would like to begin with you. what does mark sandy bring to the conversation, remind the omb role in this story? >> mark sandy is as career official at the office of management and budget. he's not as political appointee of president trump. he decided to defy the order, trying to present all of these lawyers testifying. it was the omb that was involved and stopping the $400 million aid from flowing into ukraine. the aid went to ukraine but there was a delay, it was ordered according to reporting by the president, sets forth by mulvaney and the omb director and mr. sandy should shed much more light and details in the process inside. and what the system was for docum

trump congratulated president selenski on his election victory and invited him to a meeting in the oval office but once i arrived in cave i discovered a weird combination of encouraging confusing and ultimately alarming circumstances 1st encouraging president alinsky was reforming ukraine in a hurry he appointed reformist ministers and supported long stalled anti corruption legislation he took quick executive action including opening ukraine's high anti corruption court with a new parliamentary majority stemming from snap elections president zelinsky change the ukrainian constitution to remove absolute immunity from rada deputies the source of raw corruption for 2 decades the excitement in kiev was palpable this time could be different the new ukraine finally breaking from its corrupt post soviet past and yet i found it confusing an unusual arrangement for making us policy towards ukraine there appeared to be 2 channels of u.s. policy making in implementation one regular and one highly irregular as the acting ambassador i had authority over the regular formal diplomatic processes includ

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what was he doing then in the oval office the day before he takes the job? he denied he was interviewing for fbi directorship but i interviewed the president of the oval office and said absolutely he was great that's why he was there. i interviewed his personal assistant to set up the meeting and was pretty to the conversation so yeah, it was an interview for fbi director. multiple administration witnesses and documents demonstrate that mueller was either terribly mistaken or not telling the truth when he denied all of that but it invites the question what is he doing there and if he is already deciding to take the job as special counsel why is he in the oval office and was that a conversation under false pretenses so that mueller could gather information from trump in the oval office to be used against him in the special counsel investigation and the key question is did the president explain to mueller his reasons for firing comey? if the answer to that question is yes, then mueller cannot have served as special counsel because that makes them both prosecut

the present and then asked about the meeting in the oval office as promised in the may 29 letter. we could give him no firm answer. , the our meeting ambassador and i traveled to the front lines to receive a briefing on the line of contact. , theing in the briefing commander thanked us for .ecurity assistance i was aware this assistance was on hold, which made me uncomfortable. the investor and i could see the armed and hostile russian forces on the other of the damaged bridge. russian forces continued to kill ukrainians in the war, one or two a week. more would undoubtedly die that u.s. assistance. though i spent the morning with president zelensky, the first i heard frome call anybody inside the u.s. government was during a phone call i had with tim morrison, the recent replacement at the nsc. the call could have been better and that president trump had suggested president zelensky order staff to meet with mr. giuliani and attorney general william barr. i did not see any official readout of the call until it was publicly released. by august, i was becoming more concerned. i exch

just remember that vividly in the oval office. in the speech one out to staffing and for three weeks between that meeting in the oval office and the day he delivered the speech the state department and national security council tried to suppress it or they submitted my journal showed seven different drafts on several different pretexts for limiting the call to tear down the wall. they thought it would raise expectations that howard baker chief of staff years later found state department concerns that would put gorbachev on the spot by calling them out personally. this went on and on and on and finally the deputy chief of staff a friend of yours i know sam set the president data they were now or in italy the person was speaking before going to berlin. it was a sound economics than -- summit inn to the speech back to the president for another decision talked about the objections have the president read the central passage and told me they talked about in ronald reagan got that little twinkle in his eye and said now i'm the president

>> that is correct. >> why was that oval office meeting so important to president zelensky? >> i think that he felt that he was not well understood by president trump. he is a charismatic leader who ran a remarkable campaign in ukraine and against the legacy of corruption and he had a massive showing in the presidential election, 73% support. he believed he was leading a movement of major change in ukraine and that president trump didn't see that or appreciate that. but if he had a chance to sit down and speak with president trump face-to-face, he believed that he could be very convincing about that and i agreed with him. >> that is certainly your assessment, right. >> it was my assessment and also what president zelensky believed. >> and certainly you understood from your experience in ukraine that there would be a significant boost in legitimacy at home for president zelensky if there were photos of him in the oval office, et cetera, is that right. >> yes, that is correct. >> now you testified in your opening statement that mr. giuliani and mr. yermak, zelensky's aide, met

had toward ukraine i was seeking to solve the problem i saw when we met with president trump in the oval office on may 23rd as a professional diplomat i was comfortable exploring whether there was a statement ukraine could make about its own intentions to investigate possible corruption that would be helpful and given seeing mr giuliani to convey to president trump a more positive assessment of the new leadership in ukraine on august 16th mr year mark shared a draft with me which i thought looked perfectly reasonable it did not mention breeze month or 2016 elections but was generic a better song london and i had a further conversation with mr giuliani who said that in his view in order to be convincing that this government represented real change in ukraine the statement should include specific reference to breeze and 2016 again there was no mention of vice president biden in these conversations a master solon and i discussed these points and i edited the statement drafted by mr yarmuk to include these points to see how it looked i then discussed it further with mr. he said that for a nu

did it get to the oval office?it didn't get to the oval office it doesn't seem like such a big deal. if the president himself was personally engaged it's a big deal. >> yeah. >> we ought to look at the evidence and the holmes testimony just came out. he said he heard the president say, what about the investigations? and then he gets off the phone and he says he doesn't give a shit about ukraine. the only thing he cares about the ukraine is getting political advantage about it. he doesn't care about ukraine. except for the improper purpose. >> yeah. we got to end it there. no doubt i think we'll be talking about this all week. thank you all for being with us. appreciate it. up next legendary white house correspondent and abc news anchor sam donaldson joins me. (contemplative synth music) - [narrator] forget about vacuuming for up to a month. shark iq robot deep-cleans and empties itself into a base you can empty once a month. and unlike standard robots that bounce around, it cleans row by row. if it's not a shark, i

dom sibley and england are under way against new zealand at the bay oval. and great britain are off tog start in the new look davis cup — with doubles delight against the dutch. thanks forjoining us. he's been the special one. the successful one. now, he's the spurs one. you're looking at tottenham hotspurs‘ new manager right there. jose mourinho is back in the premier league. 11 months after leaving manchester united, he replaces mauricio pochettino — who was sacked just over 2a hours ago. we'll analyse just what went wrong for poch shortly but let's find out just what spurs fans can expect from one of the most enigmatic men in football. starting sportsday this evening is our editor dan roan. things move very fast and premier league football. another reminder of that. just how ruthless it can be because he did come as a shock to many people in many spurs fans that despite the reported unrest and tension that had been developing between pochettino and the board, given the progress that is been made during the five and a half years and given how popular he is, i think it still came as a

with an oval office meeting for president zelensky. which so irritated, then natiol security adviser john bolton. he abruptly ended the meeting telling doctor hill. and lieutenant colonel van that they should have nothing to with domestic politics. he also directed doctor hill tobrief. e lawyers. doctor hill said that investor bolton referred to thideal is e this is a drug deal. after the july 10th beating. besser bolton opposed toall between president zelesky and president trump out of concern that it would be a disaster. the range of the meetings were consed. and the regular ukine policy decision-making channel want talk about security energy reform. that's a song the participate in the irregular channel want to talk about the connection between a white house meeting and ukrainian investitions. also during our july 19tcalled doctor hill and for me that investor volcker had met with mister giulii to discuss ukraine. it's called me by surprise. next to ask about bulger about that meeting but received no response. i began to sense that

he calls people early in the morning he usually doesn't come down to the oval office from 11:00 or sos usually up in the residence watching tv, reading the news, he calls foreign leaders from there. he'll have meetings up there, he'll even call down to senior staff in the white house and ask them to come up for the meeting. it's something that as he's gotten more and more comfortable in the presidency, this is where he likes doing his work. >> his home away from home, so to speak. >> rick perry becoming the latest trump official who says the president was sent by god as the chosen one. the impact of those words in this political climate. i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. i suffered with psoriasis i felt gross. people were afraid i was contagious. i was covered from head to toe. i was afraid to show my skin. it was kind of a shock after... i started cosentyx. i wasn't covered anymore. four years clear. five years now. i just look and feel better. see me. c

in that, he congratulated president zelensky and invited him to a meeting in the oval office. once i arrived in kiev, i discovered a weird combination of encouraging, confusing and ultimately alarming circumstances. first the encouraging, president zelensky was reforming ukraine in a hurry. he appointed reformist minsters and supported long stalled anticorruption legislation. he took quick executive action including opening ukraine's mi antiskrupgs court with a new parliamentary majority stemming from snap elections, president zelensky changed the ukrainian constitution to remove immunity, the source of raw corruption for two decades. the excitement in key ev was pal pavl. a new ukraine finally breaking from it's corrupt post-soviet past. and yet i found confusion policy making. there appeared to be two channels, one regular and one highly irregular. as the acting ambassador i had power over the regular ones including the support against russian invasion and to help it defeat corruption. my colleague, deputy is sisnt secretary of state george kent and our colleagues at the nat

i was seeking to solve the problem is solved when i met with president trump in the oval office on may 23rd. as a professional diplomat, i was comfortable exploring whether there was a statement ukraine could make about its own intentions to investigate possible corruption that would be helpful in convincing mr. giuliani to good faith to president trump a more positive assessment in the new leadership. on august 16th, he shared a draft with me which i thought looked perfectly reasonable. it did not mention him or 2016 elections, but was generic. we had a further conversation with mr. giuliani that said in his view, in order to be convincing that this government represented real change in ukraine, the statement should include specific reference. there was no mention of vice president biden these conversations. we discussed these points and i added the statements to include these points to see how it looks. i then discussed it further. he said that for a number of reasons, including the fact that he was still officially the prosecutor general, they do not want to mention 2016. i agreed.

if you don't have anybody who can take us into the oval offic oval office, it seems to me that createsroblem, and the other question i have, is how credible is gordon sondland as point? he already had to revise his testimony wants to tell you about a meeting that he never discussed. only after other witnesses cornered him on it and his july 26 phone call in a restaurant -- him in the president of the president saying he's going to do the investigation. he never even mentioned that to you, so is he even a credible witness? >> representative himes: that's a good question, and again, we do have -- we do have people who were in the room, chief amongst them ambassador sondland. we will say, i'm not going to try to prejudge his testimony, but yes he has amended his testimony. it was not lost on ambassador sondland what happened to the president's close associate roger stone for lying to congress. to michael cohen for lying to congress. my guess is that ambassador sondland is going to do his level best to tell the truth, because otherwise he may have a very unpleasant legal future in front of

i remember that vividly in the oval office. then the speech went to staff, and in the three weeks between that meeting in the oval office and the day before he delivered the speech, the state department, the national security council tried to suppress it. they submitted -- my journal shows different drafts of seven eliminating the call to tear down the wall. they thought it would raise false expectations. howard baker told me he thought it sounded unpresidential. the state department was concerned it would put gorbachev on the spot by calling him out personally. this went on and on, and finally ken duberstein, deputy chief of staff, sat the president down, speaking before going to berlin, and he took the speech back to the president for another decision and talked about the objections, had the president read the central passage, and en told me that they talked about it and ronald reagan got that twinkle in his eye and said, "now, i am the president, aren't i, ken? [laughter] yes sir, we are clear about that much. i get to decid

we shake hands in the oval office. in the good news is as an 18-year-old first quarter ohio state freshman i spent 20 minutes alone with the president of the united states the bad news is i spent 18 years in congress and a if you add up all that time i peeked out at the age of 18. it should've transferred to miami. well have a lot of students here tonight. but schools around the country. i tell that story and really everybody here you just never know what's can happen. if you think big and dream big. a couple other stories i would like to tell you. when i graduated from ohio state. i went looking for a job in downtown columbus. i looked and i saw the statehouse. did they hear about politics you've to know some need to get in. there was a guy i the name of salty lewis. i had used his name out in the last three months. i'm looking for a job i would just like to use my brain and to go to law school. i will hire you. you will write resolutions. we will send out with the ribbon on and it will be great. i went in on monday a

erdogan felt so comfortable and cozy in his own skin sitting there in donald trump's oval office that pulled out an anti-kurdish video, shared it with the president and five republican senators on an ipad. it was first reported by axios who wrote this, quote. an oval office meeting yesterday took a dark turn when erdogan pulled out his ipad and made the group watch a propaganda video. erdogan apparently thought he could sway these senators by forcing them to watch a clunky propaganda film. the shock of trump warmly welcoming an autocrat to the white house on the first day of public impeachment hearings was not lost on council foreign relations president richard haass who tweeted this. the president of turkey is invited to the white house despite close ties to russia and contempt for human rights/democracy and the president of ukraine. shameful. tables back. jonathan lemire back at this post. jonathan, what was the white house strategy? i mean, bringing the autocrat that donald trump had another sketchy phone call with and let him run a military op to distract from the sketchy phone ca

who i welcome the white house and i am sitting on something that's right outside of the oval office. a big there many times is that time been at the time am sitting right there that year, and the guys, the oval office is right there in the guy walks up to me and he says, young man, you can get five minutes alone with the president of the united states. i am 18 years old, and the first part freshman. what you say. do you say that is pretty good, pretty bulimic tell you what i am thinking. a new jacket, new tie, new shirt, and pants. i didn't come all of this way for your five lousy minutes okay. and i'm serious. who they open up the door and the president says, hey mr. president john casey, jane pesek the president of the united states. we shake hands in the oval office and i sit down and distance, and the good news is that as an 18 -year-old first order ohio state freshman, i it's been 20 minutes alone with the president of the united states. the bad news is, i it's been 18 years in congress and if he had of all the time i it's been in the oval office, i picked out at the edge of 18.

kaitlan, can you talk to me about this oval office meeting between president trump, a.g.r and his white house counsel? give us some color from our camera's view. >>really interesting. reporters are waiting for the president to go to that rally. see there the attorney general in the oval office with the president. you have a pretty shot. also the white house counsel, pat cipollone. there was a lot of confusion, people wondering what it was they were discussing? it is seemed like a pretty animated conversation that went on for some time. we've now learned from sources that what came up during that meeting there was this review of the origins of the russia investigation. that's something that the inspector general for the justice department has been working on for some time. we knew from our justice team that they were expected to wrap it up soon because witnesses were being called in to review what they had told investigators. so we are expecting it to come out some time soon. barr said imminently today. that's what they were discussing today with the president in part, may

i just remember that vividly in the oval office. out to staffing and for the three weeks between that meeting and the oval office in the day he delivered the speech the state department national security council tried to suppress it. the state department was concerned it would put gorbachev on the spot by calling him out personally. this went on and on and finally ken Ãdeputy chief of staff a friend of yours sat the president down they were in italy which is where the president was speaking before going to berlin. there was a economic summit and he took the speech back to the president for another decision. talked about the objections, had the president read essential passage and then ken told me they talked about it and then ronald reagan got got the ronald reagan twinkle in his eye and said, i'm the president of our die ken? >> that was ronald reagan. >> jeffrey, who was right on this one? president reagan or his entire foreign policy team? >> what you point out before you answer that that we are at a university i have 10 years so

did it get into the oval office?e president himself was personally engaged, it's a big deal. >> but we ought to look at the evidence. holmes' testimony just came out. he said he heard the president say, what about the investigations? >> right. >> then he gets off the phone, and he says he doesn't give a shit about ukraine. the only thing he cares about ukraine is getting political advantage about it. he doesn't care about ukraine except for the improper purpose. >> yeah. we've got to end it there. no doubt i think we'll be talking about this all week. thank you all for being with us tonight. >>> up next, legendary white house correspondent sam donaldson joins me. ime to make mopping history. braava jet, start mopping. introducing the braava jet m6 robot mop. with an adjustable precision jet spray and advanced pad system for mopping or sweeping, braava jet breaks up messes and gets deep in corners. a better way to mop. without any effort. the braava jet m6 robot mop. only from irobot. - [narrator] forget about vacuumi

goal is for potus to invite him to oval. volker, perry, bolton and i strongly recommend. mr. morrison acknowledged and said, thank you, and specifically noted that he was tracking these issues. again, there was no secret regarding moving forward, and the discussion of investigations. moreover, i have reviewed other state department documents, some of which are not currently in the public domain, detailing mr. giuliani's efforts. for example, on july 10th, the very same day that ambassador volker, secretary perry and i were meeting with the ukraine officials in washington, ambassador taylor received a communication that mr. giuliani was still talking with ukrainian prosecutor yuriy lutsenko. in whatsapp messages with ambassador volker and i, ambassador taylor wrote to us as follows. just had a meeting with andriy and vadym, referring to ukraine forei 's foreign minister. very concerned about what he told him. meaning according to rg, this zelensky/potus will not happen. volker responded, good grief. please deal vadym to let u.s. government representatives speak for the u.s. lu

oval office is 53%. and the next is the private residence. we're going it see that in the documentary later. the curiosity of. i would like to see with the president lives. and the only thing that surprises me is the east room. it's been seen so many times. particularly since president john who began to use it a lot for press conferences and things. >> here is is a picture of new hampshire's own franklin paris. i want to get back to the stories you have. the story of benjamin paris. and jane and what her years in the white houses were like. and do you remember what years he was president? >> 1853 to 1857. before the civil war. >> what is their story? >> they had two children. he was a quiet intellectual woman. very smart. >> she lost her son at about 10 and it broke her heart. they had a little boy, about 12, benny, he was idolized by her. there was an image of the two of them together. and on the train, a tape trip after pierce's election, there was a train wreck and the little boy was thrown from the train. and rolled down the hill in the s

impeachment inquiry because president donald trump sought to condition military aid to ukraine in an oval office meeting with the you -- with the new ukrainian president in exchange for politically motivated investigations trump believed would help his reelection campaign. the first investigation was of a discredited conspiracy theory that ukraine, not russia, was responsible for interfering in the 2016 election. the second investigation that trump demanded was into a political rival he apparently feared most, joe biden. trump sought to weaken biden and refute the fact that his own election campaign in 2016 had been helped by russian hacking and dumping operations and russian social media campaign directed by vladimir putin, who helped trump. underminedeme military and diplomatic support for a key ally and undercut u.s. anticorruption efforts in ukraine. trump put his personal and political interests above those of the united states. the ambassador would tell david holmes after speaking to the president, trump did not give a expletive about ukraine. he cares about the big stuff that benef

goal is for potus to invite him to oval. volker, perry, bolton and i strongly recommend. mr. morrison acknowledged and said thank you and specifically noted that he was tracking these issues. again, there was no secret regarding moving forward and the discussion of investigations. moreover, i've reviewed other state department documents, some of which are not currently in the public domain, detailing mr. giuliani's efforts. for example, on july 10th, the very same day that ambassador volker, secretary perry and i were meeting with the ukraine officials in washington, ambassador taylor received a communication that mr. giuliani was still talking with ukrainian prosecut prosecutor. ambassador taylor wrote to us as follows, just had a meeting, referring to the ukraine foreign minister. taylor said the ukrainians were, quote, very concerned about what let senk oh told them, according to giuliani, the zelensky/potus meeting will not happen. volker responded, good grief, please tell the dean to let the official u.s. representatives speak for the u.s. lutsenko has its own self-inter

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and that is that he does not take us inside the oval office. he doesn't talk as a lot of us had expected him to about what the president told him directly. as bret mentioned he comes to believe there is a link to military aid. he understands what giuliani is saying but he never recounts specific meetings with the president where the president said do this, tie this, and i suspect that means that there will be a lot of lawyering going on by both democrats and republicans to turn the phrase quid pro quo. how much does it mean with the specific direction you got from the president of the united states? he doesn't state that in his opening statement. >> page 12 i find it odd that neither i nor ambassador taylor or volker ever received a detailed read-out of the call with the biden references. let's see how many times the name of the bidens is invoked or whether or not he reverts back to 2016, the campaign the president mentioned on the phone call and the amount of corruption through burisma and the country and government of ukraine. >> a >> few sec

a partisan way, as well as divide the country in her power grab from the rightful occupant of the ovalffice. and the lying sack of schiff is so dishonest his law license should be revoked. he lied about the so-called whistleblower saying we never talked to him when he did. he perjured himself in congress when he talked about what the president said on the ukraine phone call. he lied when he said he had evidence of russia collusion. he was cunning as he created a narrative about ukraine while the deep state cultivated the so-called whistleblower who is reportedly an obama holdover, who has apparently worked with joe biden, john brennan and susan rice. these liars created yet another narrative so they could impeach donald trump. whistleblowers historically were required to have first-hand knowledge. but no the democrats just changed the rules. now hearsay can be the basis to take down a president. you don't have to sight, witness it or hear it firsthand. you can just talk to the other malcontents in the west wing who don't like donald trump, then call yourself a whistleblower. either sch

that oval office meeting that zelensky sought, it still hasn't happened. although we have learned a great deal about these events in the last several weeks, there are still missing pieces. the president has instructed the state department and other agencies to ignore congressional subpoenas for documents. he's instructed witnesses to defy subpoenas and refuse to appear. he has suggested those who do expose wrongdoing should be treated like traitors and spies. these actions will force congress to consider, as it did with president nixon, whether trump's obstruction of the constitutional duties of congress constitute additional grounds for impeachment. if the president can refuse all oversight, particularly in the context of an impeachment proceeding, the balance of power between our two branches of government will be irrevocable altered. that's not what the founders intended. and the prospects were further corruption and abuse of power in this administration or any other will be exponentially increased. this is what we believe the testimony will show, both

>> hopefully. >> it would be an oval office meeting. >> a working meeting. >> so an official act? >> yes. >> and in order to perform that official act, donald trump wanted these two investigations that would help his reelection campaign, correct? >> i can't characterize why he wanted them. all i can tell you is this is what we heard from mr. giuliani. >> but he had to get these two investigations if that official act was going to take place, correct? >> he had to announce the investigations. he didn't actually have to do them, as i understood it. >> okay. president zelensky had to announce the two investigations the president wanted, make a public announcement, correct? >> correct. >> and those were of great value to the president, he was quite insistent upon them and his attorney was insistent upon them? >> i don't want to characterize whether they were a value or not a value. through mr. giuliani we were led to believe that that's what he wanted. >> and you said that mr. giuliani was acting at the president's demand, correct? >> right, when the president says talk to my personal

well mr chairman when we left the oval office i believe on may 23rd. the request was very generic for an investigation of corruption in a very vanilla sense and dealing with some of the oligarch problems in ukraine which were longstanding problems and then as time went on. more specific items got added to the menu including the upper recent and 2016 election meddling specifically the d.n.c. service specifically and over this over this continue on. it became more and more difficult to secure the white house meeting because more conditions were being placed on the white house meeting and then of course on july 25th although you were not privy to the call another condition was added that being the investigation of the bidens i was not privy to the call and i did not know that the condition of investigating the bidens was a condition correct you saw that in the call records wrecked it was not in any record i received when you did yes see i saw that in september correct so under on this continuum the beginning of the continuum begins on may 23rd when the pr

kent i'd like to refer you to the discussion of may 23rd meeting in the oval office. when the president met with those who had gone to the ukraine for the inauguration. you briefly testified that you helped propose nameses for individuals to go to that inauguration. was ambassador sondland who was ambassador to the european union one of the names you submitted? >> no, it was not. >> but he ultimately attended that inauguration. is that not right? >> that is correct. >> do you know how he ended up as a part of that official delegation? >> i do not know for sure but my understanding is once the list left the nsc staff it went through review through the part of the white house that determines presidential delegati delegations. >> you also testified upon returning ambassador sondland used his "connections with mulvaney" to order, in order to secure this meeting in the oval office. is that correct? >> that is my understanding, yes. >> seems this oval office meeting was a pivotal turning point in the ukraine policy coming out of that meeting who was given responsibility to