The House began releasing impeachment interview transcripts, starting with Ambassador Yovanovitch. New transcripts were released each day this week.
Here are the highlights from the transcript of Taylor’s testimony.
Here is a list of the top five impeachment revelations from this week.
Sondland corrected his earlier testimony and is now describing a quid pro quo he pushed with Ukraine: “I said that resumption of the U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks” including a script for Zelensky to deliver about Burisma and 2016 election interference.
The New York Times reports that Ukraine came very close to giving into Trump’s demands: “Nearly all Mr. Zelensky’s top advisers favored his making the public statement, said one of the officials who participated in the debate. United States military aid, they agreed, as well as diplomatic backing for impending peace talks to end the war outweighed the risks of appearing to take sides in American politics…. Finally bending to the White House request, Mr. Zelensky’s staff planned for him to make an announcement in an interview on Sept. 13 with Fareed Zakaria, the host of a weekly news show on CNN.” Aid was released on September 11.
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