Political Quotes

“I have a question to send to the desk. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senator Romney is for both parties, and I believe the House manager will go first: Do you have any evidence that anyone was directed by President Trump to tell the Ukrainians that security assistance was being held upon the condition of an investigation into the Bidens? Mr. Manager SCHIFF. Senator, the evidence that is currently in the record--there are two people who had direct conversations with the President about the conditioning of aid on the performance of the investigations. The first was Gordon Sondland, who on September 7 had a conversation with the President that thereafter he relayed to Tim Morrison as well as Ambassador Taylor. And in the conversation that Ambassador Sondland described at the time, he said the President on the one hand said no quid pro quo but then went on to say that Zelensky has to announce these investigations and he should want to. So the President made the direct link to Ambassador Sondland. Ambassador Sondland then made a direct link--or had already made the direct link to Andriy Yermak. But the conversation with--the President had a conversation with Zelensky himself and conveyed what he had been informed by the President, that Zelensky was going to have to conduct these investigations. And that is when Zelensky made the commitment to go on CNN. So Ambassador Sondland has acknowledged the tie between the two. So did Mick Mulvaney.…”