I would have — I would have —But in the end, he confirms the essence of the story as it’s been related by other witnesses, and for the first time, kind of established that that happened.Again, trying to reconstruct a very busy day without the benefit, but if someone said I had a meeting, and I went to the meeting, then I’m not going to dispute that.So it’s kind of that familiar mix of Sondland’s self-protection, lack of recall, but overall, damning testimony.So the Democrats wrap up their questioning.That concludes our 45 minutes —And after weeks of investigation, literally hundreds of hours of testimony, in private and in public, they’ve finally gotten, from a lead witness who had direct access to the president, a statement, an admission, of one of the things that they’ve been looking for and trying to prove out all along, that this White House meeting, an official act, was conditioned upon Ukraine publicly announcing investigations. “People think they love Barbaro,” one podcast executive tells me. I think it was really important and the chemistry seems promising. And this investigation is focused on Stormy Daniels.She is the porn star with whom Trump was allegedly having an affair.
And that’s certainly the point that the Trump family is making. It helps eliminate some of the discrepancies in the testimony they’ve gotten.Which of these exchanges stood out to you?Well, one in particular is fresh in my mind, because we just learned about it for the first time last week.And one of the things that you now remember is the discussion that you had with President Trump on July 26 in that restaurant in Kyiv, right?Now remember, that’s the day after Trump himself spoke to Zelensky and told him that I want these investigations into the Bidens in 2016. This Twitter biopic is swarthy. For decades, there’s a tradition among major presidential candidates to release their tax returns so that the public can understand better the finances of the people they might elect. And someday when we do finish that long journey toward freedom, when we do form a more perfect union, whether it’s years from now or decades, or even if it takes another two centuries, John Lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better America.Trump tweeted out an ad for a pizza place on Long IslandFormer GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain has died from coronavirus. So I think that’s a fair point to make. See? And what did the court ultimately say to that question?The court said, maybe not in so many words, but the thrust of the decisions was sure.