and ambassador sondland wrote, he has prepared to receive potis call, president of the united states. will assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will, quote, turn other every stone unquote. both secretary perry and chief of staff mulvaney quickly responded to the email, noting that given that conversation a date would soon be set to schedule the white house telephone call. the evidence also unambiguously shows that the ukrainians understood this quid pro quo and had serious reservations, particularly because president zelensky had won the election on an anti-corruption platform. in fact, a few days before the july 25th call, ambassador william taylor, the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine and the former permanent ambassador to ukraine texted ambassador sondland and volker. rather he satated in his testimony on july 20th i had a phone conversation during which was conveyed to me that president zelensky did not want to be used as a pawn in a u.s. re-election campaign. but president trump's pressure campaign on president zelensky did not relent and just