David Holmes, the U.S. diplomat in Kyiv, Ukraine, appeared for a closed-door deposition with House impeachment investigators on Friday.
A State Department official, who was subpoenaed to testify amid the House impeachment probe, told lawmakers that President Donald Trump asked EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland in a phone call about the status of an investigation he requested from the Ukrainian president.
"I then heard President Trump ask, 'So he's gonna do the investigation?' Ambassador Sondland replied that 'he's gonna do it,'" adding that Zelenskiy"will do 'anything you ask him to,'" according to a copy of his opening statement obtained by ABC News. CNN first reported the details of Holmes' remarks.
Holmes said he asked Sondland if it was true that Trump didn't care about Ukraine -- and claims that the ambassador agreed, adding that"Trump only cares about big stuff." "In that statement that was released there is a lot to be concerned about," California Rep. Eric Swalwell told reporters Saturday."Particularly that more witnesses described the president's obsession with investigating his political opponents."
"You know they’ve had three hearings, three witnesses with no firsthand knowledge the facts. I say this all the time but, the thing about facts, they don’t change," he said."We have the call transcript, we have two individuals on the call, [President] Trump, [President] Zelenskiy that say there was no linkage, no pressure, no pushing whatsoever."
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