but not voelker shortly after this text. according to ambassador taylor who testified again on his real time notes. let's hear what what he said. >> the following day, september 8th, ambassador sondland and i spoke on the phone. help confirmed he talked to president trump as i suggested a week earlier. but president trump was adamant that president zelensky, himself, had to clear things up and do it in public. president trump said it was into the a quid pro quo. >> it's all very consistent here what the president said no quid pro quo, but zelensky must announce the investigations publicly. that's what he was telling sondland. no quid pro quo except for the quid pro quo. the president's attorneys rely on the first half of that sentence and would like you to frth the second half ever happened. we don't have to leave our common sense at the door. we don't have to rely on an incomplete description of that call. we have instead the detailed notes of mr. morrison and ambassador taylor. but we also know what president trump told so

parasite, joakim phoenix for best motion picture drama in "voelker" and renee zellweger for her performance as judy garland in "judy." >> cbz says the future of quarterback tom brady is uncertain after the playoff loss. the patriots lost to the tennessee titans 20-13 in saturday's wild card game. the 42-year-old brady has won six super bowls. but he's not under contract for the patriots next season. it's unlikely he will retire soon but acknowledged he's not sure where he might play next year. >> i just don't know what will happen. i will not predict it. no one needs to make choices at this point.

voelker testified that president zelenskyy's senior 8 approached him to ask to be connected to mister giuliani. democrats rely on testimony that mayor giuliani told ambassadors voelker and sondland that in his view, to be credible, a ukrainian statement on anticorruption should specifically mention investigations into 2016 election interference and burisma. when ambassador voelker was asked whether he knew if giuliani was, these are his words, conveying messages that donald trump wanted conveyed to the ukrainians, voelker said that he did not have that impression and he believed giuliani was doing his own communication about what he believed he was interested in. even more significant than reliance on presumptions and unsupported conclusions. it was not in any fair context. mister giuliani's actual rolling ukrainian corruption. to hear the presentation, you may think rudy giuliani had parachuted into the president's orbit in the spring of 2019 for the express purpose of carrying out a political hit job. they have you believe rudy giuliani to dig up dirt against former vice president b

parasite, joakim phoenix for best motion picture drama in "voelker" and renee zellweger for her performancerland in "judy." >> cbz says the future of quarterback tom brady is uncertain after the playoff loss. the patriots lost to the tennessee titans 20-13 in saturday's wild card game. the 42-year-old brady has won six super bowls. but he's not under contract for the patriots next season. it's unlikely he will retire soon but acknowledged he's not sure where he might play next year. >> i just don't know what will happen. i will not predict it. no one needs to make choices at this point. >> brady has said he would like to play football until he's at least 45. >>> still to come, a revolution in artificial intelligence. a peek at the artificial human project that's reportedly being revealed this week at samsung at the consumer electronics show. when considering another treatment, ask about xeljanz xr, a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis or active psoriatic arthritis for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. it can reduce pain, swelling, and significa

look at the other new york times report last night about ambassador voelker -- several members of the ministration had concerns about the president's deals with autocrats particularly xi of china and erdogan of turkey. did the president have financial interests at stake when he was talking to erdogan or xi and others? may be his kids have economic interest at stake. did it impact our nation's foreign-policy with those countries? those questions are not the subject of the president's impeachment trial but this report should be a warning sign to any republican in the senate. if you vote with the white house to suppress and cover up evidence the odds are strong to the truth, the truth will eventually come out. in a few weeks or a few months do my republican colleagues want to pick up the paper and read that one of the witnesses they blocked had crucial information about the president's misconduct? the documents they voted to hide turned out to shed damning light on the truth? at this point, how can senate republicans not vote for the witnesses and documents we are seeking? the president

finally sondland texted taylor and voelker on september rates that he had conversations with potus him the meaning donald trump and president zelinsky. the conversations must've happened before the morning of september 8th when the text was sent. for his part, sondland who doesn't take notes also recall that on that call he asked donald trump an open-ended question what he wanted from ukraine. donald trump immediately responded i want no quid pro quo. let's stop here for a second. the president has latched onto the statement that he said that. because he said it it must be true, right? but wait just a minute. remember what is happening here at the same time. the president had just learned about the whistleblower complaint in the washington post editorial linking the military aid to the investigations just two days before. the fact that the president immediately blurted out speaks volumes. i am a parent and there are a lot of parents in this room and many of you could relate to a situation where you are in a room and you hear a large crash in the next room and you walk in and your kid i

after the inauguration, ambassadors voelker and sondland let key have with a very favorable impression of president zelensky. ambassador volker said they believed it was important that president trump personally engaged with the president of ukraine in order to demonstrate full u.s. support for him. with the inauguration team returning to the united states, they had a meeting with president trump on may 23. the may 23 meeting with president trump proved to be important for two good reasons. first, with ambassador yovanovitch out of the way, president trump authorized ambassador sondland, secretary perry, and ambassador volker to lead engagement with the new administration in ukraine. and, two, president trump instructed them to satisfy giuliani's concerns. in order to move forward on ukraine matters. these officials were all political appointees, and ambassador sondland had donated $1 million to the president's inauguration. the president the president sawe political appointees as officials who would fulfill his requests. ambassador volker testified that he, ambassador sondland, secret

rudy giuliani, trumps personal attorney meets with ambassador voelker and they make it clear that it was important if the zelinski wanted to say he would have to help in the investigation. now we lead up to the most important dates. on july 24 is when we have six hours of testimony from robert mueller. during this testimony he's talking about the report and special counsel people out in march and said the russian government interfered in our election and in sweeping and systematic fashion but regarding the instruction of justice he said we decided we would not make a decision to whether the president committed a crime but yet the report to which he referred set out several instances where there was substantial evidence of obstruction of justice and at the hearing mueller said objection of justice strikes at the core of the government's effort to find the truth and to hold wrongdoers accountable. fresh off this testimony the next morning donald trump has the now infamous phone call that was perfect with president zelinski. what is interesting and i know he made -- even if you follow t

kurt voelker, they've called him, we did not have the opportunity to cross-examine if wore calling witnesses, he is a witnesses you heard from. we would have. the right to call witnesses and to cross-examine mr. volume kerr. george ten nat the deputy assistant secretary of state for fifth bureau of european and eurasian affairs of you saw his testimony. they called him. i if we we have witnesses we have. the right to call that witness, and to cross-examine deputy assistant secretary kent. the... ... >> these are witnesses against the president. laura cooper, deputy assistant secretary for russia ukraine and eurasia, same thing. david hale. under secretary of state for political affairs. he was called by the house , you saw his testimony we never saw the upper one - - had the opportunity to cross-examine if we have witnesses we have to have the opportunity to do that. there were other witnesses called that you saw their testimony special advisor for ukraine negotiations the deputy associate director for national security programs, christopher anderson special advisor for ukraine negotiation.

july 1 --dash investors taylor and voelker and t3 discuss rudy giuliani and his push abroad. while discussing the problems rudy was creating by meddling in official said he reaped him this afternoon. and secretary pompeo in a statement that but to make it happy enough but then ambassador to and works from him. >> we negotiated this system on - - the system i will follow you in a day or two. now the state department executives and sent an e-mail that she has that information but to take a pause why this message is important to conceal in this exchange and then helping you can make a statement and then t3 could make the boss happy enough to authorize the invitation. it shows the senior state department leadership including secretary pompeoer were quite aware of the deal. to traded invitation to the white house for a statement from president zelensky. and ambassador t3 confirmed in the loop and here is his testimony. >> we kept the leadership of the state department and the sea of our activities in that but the executive secretary and also communications with ambassador bolton,

whatsapp messages are so vital, just consider another piece of evidence we've gleaned from ambassador voelker'sartial production. the white house meetings at which ambassador sondland pressured ukrainian officials to announce investigation of president trump's political opponents, a ukrainian government official texted ambassador volker, "i feel that the key for many things is rudy, and i am ready to talk with him at any time." this is evidence then immediately following ambassador sondland's ultimatum, ukrainian officials recognized that they needed to appease rudy giuliani by carrying out the investigations. of course, mr. giuliani had publicly confirmed that he was not engaged in foreign policy, but instead it was advanced in his clients. at the president's own personal interest. further, in another text message exchange provided by ambassador volker, we see evidence that ukraine understood president trump's demands loud and clear. on the morning of july 25th, half an hour before the infamous call between president trump and president zelensky, ambassador volker wrote to a senior ukrainian o

ambassador voelker said that they were tied, the aid was not tied. answer, i didn't say that they were conclusively tied either. i said i was presuming it. question, okay. and so the president never told you they were tied? answer, that is correct. question, so your testimony and a master boulders testimony is consistent and the president did not tie investigations aid to investigations? answer. that is correct. ambassador sondland also testified that he asked president trump directly about these issuesnt and the president expressly told them he did not want anything from ukraine. ii want nothing. i want nothing. i want no quid pro quo. otell zielinski to do the right thing. similar comments were made to senator johnson. those are the facts, stubborn, but that's the facts. no one is above the law. here's the law. as every member of congress knows, undoubtedly aware, separate from even state secret privileges is a president communication executive privilege to communication and performs other presidentss responsibilities. the presidential communicatio

ambassador voelker explained america's policy toward ukraine strengthened. when we want to talk about facts, go to your own discovery and your own witnesses that you called. this all supposedly started because of a whistle-blower. where is that whistle-blower? >> the house managers have 35 minutes remaining. >> mr. chief justice, in war, time matters. minutes and hours can seem like years. the idea that it made it there eventually just doesn't work. the aid was provided, it was provided by congress. this senate in the house of representatives with the president's signature, congress is the one that sends the aid. millions of dollars of this aid would have been lost because of the delay had congress not actually passed another law that extended that deadline to allow the funds to be spent. let me repeat that, the delay had jeopardized the expenditure of the money to such an extent that congress had to pass another law to extend the deadline so that the money and the equipment got to the people on the front lines. need i also reiterate the suppose it interagen

amigo voelker and amigo sunderland, the third amigo's secretary rick perry, the former secretary of energy, we know from sunderland's testimony he was certainly in the loop, we know from ambassador volker's testimony, his text messages and what app, that amigo was in the loop. how about the third amigo? wouldn't you like to know if the third amigo was in the loop? as my colleagues would explain when we get to the department of energy records, well, surprisingly we didn't get those either. any communication between the department of energy and department of state is covered by this amendment, wouldn't you like to know? don't you think the american people have a right to know what the third amigo knew about this scheme? i'd like to know. i think you should be able to ask questions about it in your 16 hours. at the end of the day i guess i'll finish with something mr. sekulow said, he said this is a dangerous moment. because we are trying to rush through this somehow. it's a dangerous moment but we aren't trying to rush through this trial, were trying to have a real trial here. the president

this is from ambassador voelker bolton testimony. the president trump ever withhold a meeting with president zelensky or delay in meeting a with president zelensky until the ukrainians committed to investigate the allegations you just described concerning the 2016 presidential election. answer, the answer to the question is no come if you want a yes or no answer. but the reason the answer is no as they did have difficulty scheduling the meeting, there was no linkage like that. question, you said you were not aware of any linkage between the delay in the oval office meeting between president trump and president zelensky and the ukrainian commitment to investigate the two obligations as you described them, correct? answer, correct. on no fewer than 15 separate occasions, over the past week the house managers played a video of ambassador sondland saying that thed announcement of the investigation was a prerequisite for a meeting or call with the president. 15 times. they never once read to you the testimony that i just did. they never o

according to ambassador voelker president trump demonstrated that he had a very deeply rooted negative view of ukraine based on past corruption and that is a reasonable position according to ambassador volker, most people who know anything about ukraine would think that. and doctor hill testified, i think the president has actually quite publicly said that he was very skeptical about corruption in ukraine and in fact, he's not alone because everyone has expressed great concern about corruption in ukraine. the house managers have said that the presidents concern with corruption is disingenuous and they said the president trump did not care about corruption in 2017 or 2018 and he certainly did not care about it in 2019. that was their words. not according to abbasid or jovanovich however who testified that president trump shared his concern about corruption directly with president zelensky's president says are in their first meeting in the oval office and when was that meeti meeting? in june of 2017. that was 2017. the president also has well-known concerns about foreign aid generally sc

similarly, ambassador voelker affirmed that aid gets held up from time to time for a lot of reasons.manager crow told you ukraine's policy was not strong noting we help our partner fight russia over there so we don't have to fight russia here. our friends on the front line in the trenches, this was following the russian invasion of ukraine in 2014, the united states has stood by ukraine, these were your words. more proof the united states has stood by ukraine since the invasion of 2014. only one president since then took a concrete step. some of you supported him. that step included actually providing ukraine with lethal weapons including javelin missiles. president trump did. some of you in this very room, some of you managers actually support that. here is what ambassador taylor said, you didn't hear this. javelin missiles are serious weapons. they will kill russian tanks. ambassador yovanovitch agreed stating ukraine policy under president trump actually got stronger, stronger than it was under president obama. there were thoughts about sanctions. president trump has impose heavy

that morning we have voelker testing and aid in says heard from white house assuming president z and i like how they use codes. president z convinces trump he will investigate / get to the bottom of what happened in 2016 so that would be trying to get to the bottom of what happen because there's nothing to get to the bottom of meaning trying to pump up this false claim that the ukrainian billionaire and i can't believe i'm saying this assuming he does this it will be fine. there is a pre- call prep. then the phone call happens and during this call donald trump after zelinski mentions how desperate they are to get this aid and they are excited to get these weapons trump says i need you to do us a favor though. then he begins to speak about crowd strike which is code for that conspiracy of the server and the bidens and then 90 minutes after the call we have duffy who works over at omb, he's in charge of or looks over at omb and e-mails -- instructed to hold the aid and given the sensitive nature of the rest i appreciate you keeping that information closely held to those who need to kno

according to ambassador voelker president trump demonstrated that he had a very deeply rooted negative view of ukraine based on past corruption and that is a reasonable position according to ambassador volker, most people who know anything about ukraine would think that. and doctor hill testified, i think the president has actually quite publicly said that he was very skeptical about corruption in ukraine and in fact, he's not alone because everyone has expressed great concern about corruption in ukraine. the house managers have said that the presidents concern with corruption is disingenuous and they said the president trump did not care about corruption in 2017 or 2018 and he certainly did not care about it in 2019. that was their words. not according to abbasid or jovanovich however who testified that president trump shared his concern about corruption directly with president zelensky's president says are in their first meeting in the oval office and when was that meeti meeting? in june of 2017. that was 2017. the president also has well-known concerns about foreign aid generally sc

similarly, ambassador voelker affirmed that aid gets held up from time to time for a lot of reasons.manager crow told you ukraine's policy was not strong noting we help our partner fight russia over there so we don't have to fight russia here. our friends on the front line in the trenches, this was following the russian invasion of ukraine in 2014, the united states has stood by ukraine, these were your words. more proof the united states has stood by ukraine since the invasion of 2014. only one president since then took a concrete step. some of you supported him. that step included actually providing ukraine with lethal weapons including javelin missiles. president trump did. some of you in this very room, some of you managers actually support that. here is what ambassador taylor said, you didn't hear this. javelin missiles are serious weapons. they will kill russian tanks. ambassador yovanovitch agreed stating ukraine policy under president trump actually got stronger, stronger than it was under president obama. there were thoughts about sanctions. president trump has impose heavy

ambassador sondland, ambassador voelker. as useful i you saw in june, heg for these investigations and trying to arrange the meetings and make this happen. also in june the defense department announced they were going to release the military aid. the president reads about this and then he stops it. he stops the aid. in july, july 10, you heard in the chronology there is a meeting at the white house. the meeting in which sondland blurts out they've got a deal. sondland says we have a deal with mick mulvaney. bolton stiffens up and that ended the meeting. the first meeting that day and then they bring the investigation to different part of the white house and have a follow-up meeting where he makes it even more explicit. there is deals made more explicit and they say you need to talk to the lawyers. i don't want any part of this drug deal they are cooking up. that is in july. july is the month where the e-mail goes from sondland to pompeo and others, and everybody is in the loop. july is the month where the holders implemented

ambassador sondland, ambassador voelker. as useful i you saw in june, heg for these investigations and trying to arrange the meetings and make this happen. also in june the defense department announced they were going to release the military aid. the president reads about this and then he stops it. he stops the aid. in july, july 10, you heard in the chronology there is a meeting at the white house. the meeting in which sondland blurts out they've got a deal. sondland says we have a deal with mick mulvaney. bolton stiffens up and that ended the meeting. the first meeting that day and then they bring the investigation to different part of the white house and have a follow-up meeting where he makes it even more explicit. there is deals made more explicit and they say you need to talk to the lawyers. i don't want any part of this drug deal they are cooking up. that is in july. july is the month where the e-mail goes from sondland to pompeo and others, and everybody is in the loop. july is the month where the holders implemented

secretary perry led the delegation which also included ambassador sondland, senator voelker and ambassadorambassador volker tense dumb act testified that it was the largest delegation from any country they are, and it was a high-level one. the house managers did not tell you this. why not? the claim that the president instructed the vice president not to attend president zelensky's inauguration is based on house manager assumptions with no evidence that the president did something wrong. and finally, as i am coming to the end, if the evidence doesn't show a quid pro quo, what does it show? unfortunately, for the house managers, one of the few things that all of the witnesses agreed on was that president trump has strengthen the relationship between the u.s. and ukraine, and he has been a more stalwart friend to ukraine, and a more fierce opponent of russian aggression and president obama. the house managers repeatedly claimed that president trump doesn't care about ukraine. they are attributing views to president trump that are contrary to his actions. more importantly, they are contrary t

ambassador sondland, ambassador voelker and energy secretary rick perry, the 3 amigos. they hope to convince donald trump to hold an oval office meeting with zelinski. during a meeting of the 3 amigos on may 20 third donald trump told him ukraine tried to take him down in 2016. he directed them talk to rudy. about ukraine. it was clear that giuliani who was pursuing the discredited investigations on the president's behalf was the key to unlocking an oval office meeting for president zelinski. giuliani had said by then that he was actively pursuing investigations donald trump corruptly desired and planning a trip to ukraine. giuliani admitted, quote, we are not meddling in any election. we are meddling in an investigation. on may 10th, however, giuliani canceled the trip to ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden and the 2016 conspiracy theory just as president zelinski won elections for the presidency and parliament. faced with the choice between working with giuliani to pursue an oval office meeting, understanding it meant taking part in a corrupt effort to secure the poli

ambassador voelker testified the brief pause on the aid was not significant. and secretary of state for political affairs david explained this is future assistance. i mentioned the other day it is not like this money is being spent month by month to supply current needs in the ukraine. it's five-year money. once it is obligated it can go to u.s. firms who are providing material to the ukrainians and it does not get spent down finally in material to ukraine for a long time. so a delay of 48, 58 days depending on how you count it in the money being released before the end of the fiscal year ends up having no real effect. it is not current money is applying immediate need despite what we heard about the idea on the front line that ukrainian soldiers are being at risk. that is not accurate. we know also that the ukrainian deputy of defense gave an interview to new york times and x.that the whole came and went so quickly that he did not notice any change. remember the ukrainians did not even know, president zelensky and his advisors, yermak and others made it clear