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  • MORE THAN HALF A DOZEN U.S.

  • OFFICIALS HAVE INFORMED ME OF

  • THE VARIOUS FACTS RELATED TO

  • THIS EFFORT, WHO ARE THESE HALF

  • A DOZEN U.S. OFFICIALS?

  • >> WE DON'T KNOW.

  • >> WE HAD NO CHANCE TO KNOW FOR

  • SURE WHO THESE PEOPLE WERE

  • BECAUSE WE NEVER GOT TO TALK TO

  • THE WHISTLE-BLOWER, IS THAT

  • RIGHT?

  • WE NEEDED TO TALK TO THE GUY WHO

  • STARTED IT ALL AND TALK TO HIM

  • TO FIGURE OUT WHO THESE MORE

  • THAN HALF A DOZEN PEOPLE WERE

  • WHO FORMED THE BASIS OF THIS

  • COMPLAINT AND WE NEVER GOT TO.

  • ADAM SCHIFF KNOWS WHO HE IS BUT

  • WE DON'T GET TO KNOW IT, AND

  • THEREFORE WE DON'T GET TO KNOW

  • THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE WHO FORMED

  • THE BASIS OF THIS ENTIRE THING

  • WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH FOR

  • THREE MONTHS BUT WE DID TALK TO

  • 17 PEOPLE, 17 DEPOSITIONS AND

  • YOU ARE IN EVERY SINGLE ONE, YOU

  • ARE THE LAWYER DOING THE WORK

  • FOR THE REPUBLICANS IN EVERY

  • SINGLE ONE, IS THAT RIGHT?

  • AND THERE IS ONE WITNESS WHO

  • THEY RELIED ON AND BUILT THEIR

  • REPORT AROUND THE ONE WITNESS,

  • WHO WITH THAT WITNESS BE?

  • IT'S OBVIOUSLY ONE WITNESS, WHO

  • IS THAT WITNESS?

  • AMBASSADOR SONDLAND.

  • HIS NAME IS MENTIONED 611 TIMES

  • MORE THAN LIEUTENANT COLONEL

  • VINDMAN, THE GUY WHO WAS ON THE

  • CALL, MORE THAN AMBASSADOR

  • TAYLOR, THEIR FIRST WITNESS,

  • THEIR STAR WITNESS, THEY RELIED

  • ON SONDLAND, THEY RELIED ON

  • AMBASSADOR SONDLAND, WHY DID

  • THEY PICK SONDLAND?

  • >> PROBABLY THE BEST THEY'VE GOT

  • >> PROBABLY THE BEST THEY'VE GO

  • GOT.

  • >> THE GUY THAT HAD TO FILE AN

  • ADDENDUM TO HIS TESTIMONY, THE

  • GUY THAT HAD TO FILE THE

  • CLARIFICATION, THE GUY WHO SAID

  • TWO WEEKS AGO SITTING IN THE

  • SAME CHAIR YOU'RE SITTING IN IN

  • HIS 23 OPENING STATEMENT, HE

  • SAID UNLESS PRESIDENT ZELENSKY

  • ANNOUNCES AN INVESTIGATION TO

  • BURISMA IN THE BIDENS, THEY WILL

  • BE NO CALL, NO MEETING, NO

  • SECURITY ASSISTANCE MONEY GOING

  • TO UKRAINE, THAT'S WHAT

  • AMBASSADOR SONDLAND SAID.

  • WAS THERE AN ANNOUNCEMENT BY

  • PRESIDENT ZELENSKY ABOUT

  • INVESTIGATING THE BIDENS OR

  • BURISMA?

  • NO ANNOUNCEMENT.

  • LOOKING TO GET A CALL FROM

  • PRESIDENT TRUMP.

  • A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP?

  • DID PRESIDENT ZELENSKY GET THE

  • MONEY FROM THE UNITED STATES?

  • THEY GOT THE CALL ON JULY 25TH,

  • THEY GOT THE MONEY ON

  • SEPTEMBER 11TH, THEY GOT THAT

  • MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 25TH, IS

  • THAT RIGHT?

  • BUT THAT'S THE GUY THEY BUILT

  • THEIR CASE AROUND.

  • IS THAT RIGHT?

  • ONE OTHER THING THEY BUILT THEIR

  • CASE AROUND, A LOT OF HEARSAY.

  • AND THAT IS AMBASSADOR SONDLAND,

  • BUILT A CASE AROUND THIS

  • AMBASSADOR AND BUILT A CASE

  • AROUND HEARSAY AND THE BEST

  • EXAMPLE OF BOTH IS AMBASSADOR

  • SONDLAND BECAUSE HE FILED HIS

  • ADDENDUM WHERE HE SAID THIS, WE

  • HAVE READ THIS A COUPLE OF WEEKS

  • AGO.

  • POINTED THIS OUT A COUPLE OF

  • WEEKS AGO, BULLET POINT NUMBER

  • TWO IN HIS CLARIFICATION, HE

  • SAID AMBASSADOR TAYLOR RECALLS

  • THAT MR. MORRISON TOLD

  • AMBASSADOR TAYLOR THAT I TOLD

  • MR. MORRISON THAT I CONVEYED

  • THAT MESSAGE TO YERMAK IN

  • CONNECTION WITH

  • VICE PRESIDENT PENCE'S MEETING

  • IN WARSAW.

  • THAT'S HIS CLARIFICATION.

  • AMAZING, SIX PEOPLE HAVING FOUR

  • CONVERSATIONS IN ONE SENTENCE,

  • AMBASSADOR TAYLOR RECALLED THAT

  • MR. MORRISON TOLD AMBASSADOR

  • TAYLOR THAT I CONVEYED THIS

  • MESSAGE TO MR. YERMAK IN

  • CONNECTION WITH

  • VICE PRESIDENT PENCE'S VISIT TO

  • WARSAW AT THE MEETING WITH

  • PRESIDENT ZELENSKY, THAT'S THE

  • CLARIFICATION, THAT IS THEIR

  • STAR WITNESS WHO THEY BUILT

  • THEIR CASE AROUND, SO-AND-SO

  • TELLS SO-AND-SO WHAT SOMEBODY

  • SAID TO SOMEONE ELSE AND THERE

  • YOU HAVE IT.

  • THAT IS THEIR CASE.

  • THEY FORGET THE FOUR KEY FACTS.

  • THEY FORGET THE FACT WE HAVE THE

  • CALL TRANSCRIPT AND NO QUID PRO

  • QUO, THE TWO GUYS ON THE CALL

  • HAVE SAID REPEATEDLY IT WAS NO

  • PRESSURE FOR LINKAGE OR PUSHING

  • AN EFFECT THAT UKRAINE DIDN'T

  • KNOW AIDEN WAS HELD AT THE TIME

  • OF THE CALL AND FORGET THE FACT

  • THAT THEY DID NOTHING TO GET THE

  • AID RELEASE, NO ANNOUNCEMENT OF

  • ANY TYPE OF INVESTIGATION

  • WHATSOEVER.

  • THEY FORGET THAT, THOSE KEY

  • FACTS AND THEY BUILD THEIR CASE

  • ABOUT McKAY THAT HAD TO

  • CLARIFY HIS TESTIMONY WITH THAT

  • AMAZING SENTENCE.

  • MR. GOLDMAN, DID THE DEMOCRATS

  • PUBLISH PHONE RECORDS OF THE

  • PRESIDENT'S ATTORNEY?

  • >> MR. GIULIANI, YES.

  • >> THAT THEY PUBLISH PHONE

  • RECORDS OF A MEMBER OF THE

  • PRESS?

  • >> YES, HE WAS ALSO INVOLVED.

  • >> THAT THEY PUBLISH PHONE

  • RECORDS OF A MEMBER OF CONGRESS?

  • DID THAT MEMBER OF CONGRESS ALSO

  • HAPPENED TO BE YOUR BOSSES

  • POLITICAL OPPONENT THAT THOSE

  • PHONE RECORDS WERE PUBLISHED?

  • THEY RUN THIS KIND OF

  • INVESTIGATION, IGNORING THE

  • FACTS, NOT LETTING THE

  • WHISTLE-BLOWER COME IN AND

  • THEREFORE NOT LETTING US KNOW IF

  • WE HAVE TALKED OF THE MORE THAN

  • HALF A DOZEN ORIGINAL SOURCES

  • FOR THE WHISTLE-BLOWERS

  • COMPLAINT IN THE FIRST PLACE,

  • THE GUY THAT HAD TO FILE AN

  • ADDENDUM WITH THAT CLARIFICATION

  • SENTENCE THE ONE THING THEY DID

  • DO, ONE THING THEY DID DO IN

  • THEIR REPORT AS THEY PUBLISH THE

  • PHONE RECORDS OF THE PRESIDENT'S

  • PERSONAL LAWYER, THE PHONE

  • RECORDS OF A MEMBER OF THE PRESS

  • AND THE PHONE RECORDS OF THE

  • CHAIRMAN OF THE INTELLIGENCE

  • COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVE NUNES.

  • 11 MONTHS BEFORE AN ELECTION.

  • >> THE GENTLE OF IT IS HAS

  • EXPIRED.

  • THANK YOU.

  • I WOULD LIKE TO FOCUS ON THE

  • FACTS OF THE PRESIDENT'S ABUSE

  • OF POWER.

  • >> THE GENTLEMAN WILL STATE HIS

MORE THAN HALF A DOZEN U.S.

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