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(Yeah,,, so much for the claim of 'impartially following the facts!'
Same biased people that were screaming in Nov. 2016.)
'Coup has started,' whistleblower's attorney said in 2017 posts calling
for impeachment
Gregg ReBy Gregg Re | Fox News
Hannity: Whistleblower lawyer is a Trump-hater
Whistleblower attorney called for 'coup' and 'rebellion' against Trump
in 2017.
Mark Zaid, one of the attorneys representing the intelligence community
whistleblower at the center of the Democrats' ongoing impeachment
inquiry, tweeted conspicuously in January 2017 that a "coup has started"
and that "impeachment will follow ultimately."
Then, in July 2017, Zaid remarked, "I predict @CNN will play a key role
in @realDonaldTrump not finishing out his full term as president." Also
that month, Zaid tweeted, "We will get rid of him, and this country is
strong enough to survive even him and his supporters."
Amid a slew of impeachment-related posts, Zaid assured his Twitter
followers that "as one falls, two more will take their place,"
apparently referring to Trump administration employees who defy the
White House. Zaid promised that the "coup" would occur in "many steps."
The tweets, which came shortly after President Trump fired then-acting
Attorney General Sally Yates for failing to defend federal laws in
court, are likely to fuel Republican concerns that the anonymous
whistleblower's complaint is tainted with partisanship. Trump's call
with Ukraine's leader, which is the subject of the complaint, occurred
in July 2019.
“The whistleblower’s lawyer gave away the game," the Trump campaign's
communications director, Tim Murtaugh, told Fox News. "It was always the
Democrats’ plan to stage a coup and impeach President Trump and all they
ever needed was the right scheme. They whiffed on Mueller so now they’ve
settled on the perfectly fine Ukraine phone call. This proves this was
orchestrated from the beginning.”
Added House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy: "We should take [Zaid] at his
word that this is a coordinated, premeditated plot to overturn the
election."
AT LOUISIANA RALLY WEDS NIGHT, TRUMP QUOTES FOX NEWS ARTICLE ON
'SLEAZEBALL' WHISTLEBLOWER ATTY
Trump has repeatedly accused Democrats and partisans in the intelligence
community of effectively plotting a coup against him, through selective
leaks and lengthy investigations.
Mark S. Zaid
✔
@MarkSZaidEsq
#coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion. #impeachment will
follow ultimately. #lawyers
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/826255624610729985 …
Jake Tapper
✔
@jaketapper
***@POTUS fires acting AG Sally Yates for "refusing to enforce a legal
order designed to protect the citizens" of US
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"45 years from now we might be recalling stories regarding the
impeachment of @realDonaldTrump. I'll be old, but will be worth the
wait," Zaid wrote in June 2017.
He emphasized his interest in impeachment in a variety of other posts.
"Johnson (1868), Nixon (1973), Clinton (1998) impeachment hearings. Next
up @realDonaldTrump (2017)," he said in May.
In a statement to Fox News on Wednesday, Zaid defended his posts as
common sentiments.
“Those tweets were reflective and repeated the sentiments of millions of
people," Zaid said. "I was referring to a completely lawful process of
what President Trump would likely face as a result of stepping over the
line, and that particularly whatever would happen would come about as a
result of lawyers. The coup comment referred to those working inside the
Administration who were already, just a week into office, standing up to
him to enforce recognized rules of law.“
Fox News has previously reported on social media posts by Zaid that
highlighted what appeared to be open animus toward the president.
Although Zaid described Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Adam Schiff, D-Calif., as a "mature professional," and circulated
articles that touted the reliability of the largely discredited Steele
dossier used by the FBI to surveil a former member of Trump's campaign,
Zaid has repeatedly unloaded on the president in no uncertain terms.
Mark S. Zaid
✔
@MarkSZaidEsq
And 45 years from now we might be recalling stories regarding the
impeachment of @realDonaldTrump. I'll be old, but will be worth the wait
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/876739163936239618 …
Natasha Bertrand
✔
@NatashaBertrand
Woodward and Bernstein published their first Watergate story 45 years
ago today. (h/t @axios)
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President Trump
✔
@POTUS
· Jan 30, 2017
Statement on the Appointment of Dana Boente as Acting Attorney General:
https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/10158573747555725 …
Mark S. Zaid
✔
@MarkSZaidEsq
#coup has started. As one falls, two more will take their place.
#rebellion #impeachment
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"I'm not a Trump fan," Zaid said on a podcast last year. "I go out of my
way on Twitter to say '#Resistance.' It's not a resistance against the
GOP or a Republican -- I don't think [Trump] is a Republican, quite
frankly." (Zaid also boasted that he has sued "every" president since
1993, and pursues "them all," regardless of party affiliation.)
WHISTLEBLOWER CHECKED FORM INDICATING 'FIRSTHAND' KNOWLEDGE -- CONTRARY
TO CONGRESSIONAL DOCS
Also in the podcast, Zaid acknowledged that he had been fishing for
plaintiffs to launch a lawsuit concerning the Trump hotel in Washington,
D.C., alleging unfair competition by the president and his associates.
"The unfair competition becomes, when Donald Trump became president, he
has exploited his use of the presidency, of the Oval Office. ... to send
business to the hotel. ... We identified this as a cause of action, and
we were looking for a plaintiff, and we finally found this one
restaurant that was willing," Zaid admitted. A federal judge dismissed
the lawsuit last year.
Mark S. Zaid
✔
@MarkSZaidEsq
Johnson (1868), Nixon (1973), Clinton (1998) impeachment hearings. Next
up @realDonaldTrump (2017)
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Zaid also had something of an open casting call for whistleblowers on
Twitter as Trump took office, writing that CIA employees should "come
to" his law firm "to lawfully challenge" the new president.
Zaid publicly requested that celebrities Debra Messing, Nancy Sinatra,
Cher and Rob Reiner help promote his whistleblower law firm.
"@cher please check out our new whistleblower page," Zaid wrote in one
tweet, which garnered no response from the famed singer.
In February, Zaid escalated his pitch to Reiner, asserting that "we have
a chance to depose" Trump in court. At one point last year, Zaid even
pitched his services to Michael Avenatti, after the now-embattled
attorney mentioned that he was "now representing whistleblowers within ICE."
Another of the whistleblower's attorneys, Andrew Bakaj, tweeted in
August 2017 that Trump should be removed under the 25th Amendment, which
applies to incapacitated presidents.
David Gergen
✔
@David_Gergen
· Aug 17, 2017
Sen Corker (R-Tenn) bravely argues Trump hasn't shown stability,
competence needed in WH. His views deserve serious attn @cnn @AC360
Andrew P. Bakaj
@AndrewBakaj
The 25th Amendment concerns @POTUS' inability to discharge the powers
and duties of office. Says nothing about mental health. We're there.
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The posts have surfaced as Republicans demand that the anonymous
whistleblower come forward and testify. On Sunday, House Oversight
Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, rejected an offer from Zaid
for the whistleblower to anonymously provide written answers to GOP
questions.
"Written answers will not provide a sufficient opportunity to probe all
the relevant facts and cross-examine the so-called whistleblower,"
Jordan said. "You don't get to ignite an impeachment effort and never
account for your actions and role in orchestrating it."
Zaid acknowledged in a statement in October that his client "has come
into contact with presidential candidates from both parties" -- but
insisted that the contact involved the politicians' roles as "elected
officials – not as candidates."
Mark S. Zaid
✔
@MarkSZaidEsq
Not shocking at all. I predict @CNN will play a key role in
@realDonaldTrump not finishing out his full term as president
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/882230792293842944 …
The Hill
✔
@thehill
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His abrupt disclosure came shortly after The Washington Examiner
reported that Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson
told lawmakers the whistleblower worked “or had some type of
professional relationship” with one of the Democratic presidential
candidates, citing three sources familiar with Atkinson’s interview with
lawmakers last month.
Zaid and the other whistleblower attorneys did assert that the
whistleblower "has never worked for or advised a political candidate,
campaign or party" -- leaving open the possibility that the
whistleblower did advise a current 2020 Democratic presidential
candidate prior to his or her run for office.
"The whistleblower is not the story," the attorneys said. "To date,
virtually every substantive allegation has been confirmed by other
sources. For that reason, the identity of the whistleblower is irrelevant."
Matt Wolking (Text TRUMP to 88022)
✔
@MattWolking
Lawyer for the anti-Trump whistleblower: “we will get rid of” Trump
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But Republicans have challenged that claim, noting that various
statements in the whistleblower claim have seemingly proved inaccurate.
For example, the whistleblower complaint stated that Trump made a
“specific request that the Ukrainian leader locate and turn over servers
used by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and examined by the U.S.
cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike" -- a request that does not appear in the
declassified transcript of the call released by the Trump
administration. Trump mentioned CrowdStrike, but did not demand the server.
Meanwhile, Democrats on Wednesday released a transcript of testimony
from U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor in which he claimed to have a “clear
understanding” that Trump wanted to leverage military aid to Ukraine in
return for investigations that could benefit him politically -- while
acknowledging he didn't have firsthand knowledge of "what was in the
president's mind."
“That was my clear understanding, security assistance money would not
come until the President [of Ukraine] committed to pursue the
investigation,” Taylor said.
READ THE TRANSCRIPT
Taylor is a top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine who has emerged as a key figure
of interest in the Trump impeachment inquiry, having alleged a quid pro
quo was at play despite White House denials.
The transcript shows that Taylor testified he had been told by other
officials that the White House was willing to hold up both military aid
and a prospective White House meeting with Ukraine's president to
extract a public announcement from Kiev that probes related to election
interference and a company linked to former Vice President Joe Biden's
son were underway.
Kevin McCarthy
✔
@GOPLeader
The lawyer behind the so-called whistleblower has been calling for a
“coup” against the President of the United States since January 2017.
We should take him at his word that this is a coordinated, premeditated
plot to overturn the
election.https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coup-has-started-whistleblowers-attorney-said-in-2017-posts-calling-for-impeachment
…
'Coup has started,' whistleblower's attorney said in 2017 posts calling
for impeachment
Mark Zaid, one of the attorneys representing the whistleblower at the
center of the Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry, tweeted
conspicuously in January 2017 that a "coup has started" and that...
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"Coup has started. ... We will get rid of him."
— Whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid, in 2017
"That's what Ambassador Sondland said," Taylor said, referring to E.U.
ambassador Gordon Sondland. "He said that they were linked. They were
linked."
But Republicans have countered that Taylor did not have primary
knowledge regarding the key events in question, but rather based his
testimony off conversations with others.
TRUMP-UKRAINE HOUSE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY TO START 'OPEN HEARINGS' NEXT WEEK
In one exchange between GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin and Taylor during his
deposition, Taylor was asked whether he had any firsthand knowledge of
Trump conditioning an investigation into the 2016 election and the
Bidens on military aid.
Taylor said he did not speak to the president, or have any direct
communication with the president regarding the requests for
investigations. Instead, he said he was basing much of his testimony on
what former United States Special Representative for Ukraine
Negotiations Kurt Volker and Sondland told him.
Fox News' Alex Pappas contributed to this report.
Gregg Re is a lawyer and editor based in Los Angeles. Follow him on
Twitter @gregg_re or email him at ***@foxnews.com.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coup-has-started-whistleblowers-attorney-said-in-2017-posts-calling-for-impeachment
(Yeah,,, so much for the claim of 'impartially following the facts!'
Same biased people that were screaming in Nov. 2016.)
'Coup has started,' whistleblower's attorney said in 2017 posts calling
for impeachment
Gregg ReBy Gregg Re | Fox News
Hannity: Whistleblower lawyer is a Trump-hater
Whistleblower attorney called for 'coup' and 'rebellion' against Trump
in 2017.
Mark Zaid, one of the attorneys representing the intelligence community
whistleblower at the center of the Democrats' ongoing impeachment
inquiry, tweeted conspicuously in January 2017 that a "coup has started"
and that "impeachment will follow ultimately."
Then, in July 2017, Zaid remarked, "I predict @CNN will play a key role
in @realDonaldTrump not finishing out his full term as president." Also
that month, Zaid tweeted, "We will get rid of him, and this country is
strong enough to survive even him and his supporters."
Amid a slew of impeachment-related posts, Zaid assured his Twitter
followers that "as one falls, two more will take their place,"
apparently referring to Trump administration employees who defy the
White House. Zaid promised that the "coup" would occur in "many steps."
The tweets, which came shortly after President Trump fired then-acting
Attorney General Sally Yates for failing to defend federal laws in
court, are likely to fuel Republican concerns that the anonymous
whistleblower's complaint is tainted with partisanship. Trump's call
with Ukraine's leader, which is the subject of the complaint, occurred
in July 2019.
“The whistleblower’s lawyer gave away the game," the Trump campaign's
communications director, Tim Murtaugh, told Fox News. "It was always the
Democrats’ plan to stage a coup and impeach President Trump and all they
ever needed was the right scheme. They whiffed on Mueller so now they’ve
settled on the perfectly fine Ukraine phone call. This proves this was
orchestrated from the beginning.”
Added House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy: "We should take [Zaid] at his
word that this is a coordinated, premeditated plot to overturn the
election."
AT LOUISIANA RALLY WEDS NIGHT, TRUMP QUOTES FOX NEWS ARTICLE ON
'SLEAZEBALL' WHISTLEBLOWER ATTY
Trump has repeatedly accused Democrats and partisans in the intelligence
community of effectively plotting a coup against him, through selective
leaks and lengthy investigations.
Mark S. Zaid
✔
@MarkSZaidEsq
#coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion. #impeachment will
follow ultimately. #lawyers
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/826255624610729985 …
Jake Tapper
✔
@jaketapper
***@POTUS fires acting AG Sally Yates for "refusing to enforce a legal
order designed to protect the citizens" of US
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"45 years from now we might be recalling stories regarding the
impeachment of @realDonaldTrump. I'll be old, but will be worth the
wait," Zaid wrote in June 2017.
He emphasized his interest in impeachment in a variety of other posts.
"Johnson (1868), Nixon (1973), Clinton (1998) impeachment hearings. Next
up @realDonaldTrump (2017)," he said in May.
In a statement to Fox News on Wednesday, Zaid defended his posts as
common sentiments.
“Those tweets were reflective and repeated the sentiments of millions of
people," Zaid said. "I was referring to a completely lawful process of
what President Trump would likely face as a result of stepping over the
line, and that particularly whatever would happen would come about as a
result of lawyers. The coup comment referred to those working inside the
Administration who were already, just a week into office, standing up to
him to enforce recognized rules of law.“
Fox News has previously reported on social media posts by Zaid that
highlighted what appeared to be open animus toward the president.
Although Zaid described Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Adam Schiff, D-Calif., as a "mature professional," and circulated
articles that touted the reliability of the largely discredited Steele
dossier used by the FBI to surveil a former member of Trump's campaign,
Zaid has repeatedly unloaded on the president in no uncertain terms.
Mark S. Zaid
✔
@MarkSZaidEsq
And 45 years from now we might be recalling stories regarding the
impeachment of @realDonaldTrump. I'll be old, but will be worth the wait
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/876739163936239618 …
Natasha Bertrand
✔
@NatashaBertrand
Woodward and Bernstein published their first Watergate story 45 years
ago today. (h/t @axios)
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President Trump
✔
@POTUS
· Jan 30, 2017
Statement on the Appointment of Dana Boente as Acting Attorney General:
https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/10158573747555725 …
Mark S. Zaid
✔
@MarkSZaidEsq
#coup has started. As one falls, two more will take their place.
#rebellion #impeachment
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"I'm not a Trump fan," Zaid said on a podcast last year. "I go out of my
way on Twitter to say '#Resistance.' It's not a resistance against the
GOP or a Republican -- I don't think [Trump] is a Republican, quite
frankly." (Zaid also boasted that he has sued "every" president since
1993, and pursues "them all," regardless of party affiliation.)
WHISTLEBLOWER CHECKED FORM INDICATING 'FIRSTHAND' KNOWLEDGE -- CONTRARY
TO CONGRESSIONAL DOCS
Also in the podcast, Zaid acknowledged that he had been fishing for
plaintiffs to launch a lawsuit concerning the Trump hotel in Washington,
D.C., alleging unfair competition by the president and his associates.
"The unfair competition becomes, when Donald Trump became president, he
has exploited his use of the presidency, of the Oval Office. ... to send
business to the hotel. ... We identified this as a cause of action, and
we were looking for a plaintiff, and we finally found this one
restaurant that was willing," Zaid admitted. A federal judge dismissed
the lawsuit last year.
Mark S. Zaid
✔
@MarkSZaidEsq
Johnson (1868), Nixon (1973), Clinton (1998) impeachment hearings. Next
up @realDonaldTrump (2017)
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Zaid also had something of an open casting call for whistleblowers on
Twitter as Trump took office, writing that CIA employees should "come
to" his law firm "to lawfully challenge" the new president.
Zaid publicly requested that celebrities Debra Messing, Nancy Sinatra,
Cher and Rob Reiner help promote his whistleblower law firm.
"@cher please check out our new whistleblower page," Zaid wrote in one
tweet, which garnered no response from the famed singer.
In February, Zaid escalated his pitch to Reiner, asserting that "we have
a chance to depose" Trump in court. At one point last year, Zaid even
pitched his services to Michael Avenatti, after the now-embattled
attorney mentioned that he was "now representing whistleblowers within ICE."
Another of the whistleblower's attorneys, Andrew Bakaj, tweeted in
August 2017 that Trump should be removed under the 25th Amendment, which
applies to incapacitated presidents.
David Gergen
✔
@David_Gergen
· Aug 17, 2017
Sen Corker (R-Tenn) bravely argues Trump hasn't shown stability,
competence needed in WH. His views deserve serious attn @cnn @AC360
Andrew P. Bakaj
@AndrewBakaj
The 25th Amendment concerns @POTUS' inability to discharge the powers
and duties of office. Says nothing about mental health. We're there.
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The posts have surfaced as Republicans demand that the anonymous
whistleblower come forward and testify. On Sunday, House Oversight
Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, rejected an offer from Zaid
for the whistleblower to anonymously provide written answers to GOP
questions.
"Written answers will not provide a sufficient opportunity to probe all
the relevant facts and cross-examine the so-called whistleblower,"
Jordan said. "You don't get to ignite an impeachment effort and never
account for your actions and role in orchestrating it."
Zaid acknowledged in a statement in October that his client "has come
into contact with presidential candidates from both parties" -- but
insisted that the contact involved the politicians' roles as "elected
officials – not as candidates."
Mark S. Zaid
✔
@MarkSZaidEsq
Not shocking at all. I predict @CNN will play a key role in
@realDonaldTrump not finishing out his full term as president
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/882230792293842944 …
The Hill
✔
@thehill
NEW POLL: More Americans trust CNN than Trump http://hill.cm/7hPAvP6
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His abrupt disclosure came shortly after The Washington Examiner
reported that Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson
told lawmakers the whistleblower worked “or had some type of
professional relationship” with one of the Democratic presidential
candidates, citing three sources familiar with Atkinson’s interview with
lawmakers last month.
Zaid and the other whistleblower attorneys did assert that the
whistleblower "has never worked for or advised a political candidate,
campaign or party" -- leaving open the possibility that the
whistleblower did advise a current 2020 Democratic presidential
candidate prior to his or her run for office.
"The whistleblower is not the story," the attorneys said. "To date,
virtually every substantive allegation has been confirmed by other
sources. For that reason, the identity of the whistleblower is irrelevant."
Matt Wolking (Text TRUMP to 88022)
✔
@MattWolking
Lawyer for the anti-Trump whistleblower: “we will get rid of” Trump
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But Republicans have challenged that claim, noting that various
statements in the whistleblower claim have seemingly proved inaccurate.
For example, the whistleblower complaint stated that Trump made a
“specific request that the Ukrainian leader locate and turn over servers
used by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and examined by the U.S.
cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike" -- a request that does not appear in the
declassified transcript of the call released by the Trump
administration. Trump mentioned CrowdStrike, but did not demand the server.
Meanwhile, Democrats on Wednesday released a transcript of testimony
from U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor in which he claimed to have a “clear
understanding” that Trump wanted to leverage military aid to Ukraine in
return for investigations that could benefit him politically -- while
acknowledging he didn't have firsthand knowledge of "what was in the
president's mind."
“That was my clear understanding, security assistance money would not
come until the President [of Ukraine] committed to pursue the
investigation,” Taylor said.
READ THE TRANSCRIPT
Taylor is a top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine who has emerged as a key figure
of interest in the Trump impeachment inquiry, having alleged a quid pro
quo was at play despite White House denials.
The transcript shows that Taylor testified he had been told by other
officials that the White House was willing to hold up both military aid
and a prospective White House meeting with Ukraine's president to
extract a public announcement from Kiev that probes related to election
interference and a company linked to former Vice President Joe Biden's
son were underway.
Kevin McCarthy
✔
@GOPLeader
The lawyer behind the so-called whistleblower has been calling for a
“coup” against the President of the United States since January 2017.
We should take him at his word that this is a coordinated, premeditated
plot to overturn the
election.https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coup-has-started-whistleblowers-attorney-said-in-2017-posts-calling-for-impeachment
…
'Coup has started,' whistleblower's attorney said in 2017 posts calling
for impeachment
Mark Zaid, one of the attorneys representing the whistleblower at the
center of the Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry, tweeted
conspicuously in January 2017 that a "coup has started" and that...
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"Coup has started. ... We will get rid of him."
— Whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid, in 2017
"That's what Ambassador Sondland said," Taylor said, referring to E.U.
ambassador Gordon Sondland. "He said that they were linked. They were
linked."
But Republicans have countered that Taylor did not have primary
knowledge regarding the key events in question, but rather based his
testimony off conversations with others.
TRUMP-UKRAINE HOUSE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY TO START 'OPEN HEARINGS' NEXT WEEK
In one exchange between GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin and Taylor during his
deposition, Taylor was asked whether he had any firsthand knowledge of
Trump conditioning an investigation into the 2016 election and the
Bidens on military aid.
Taylor said he did not speak to the president, or have any direct
communication with the president regarding the requests for
investigations. Instead, he said he was basing much of his testimony on
what former United States Special Representative for Ukraine
Negotiations Kurt Volker and Sondland told him.
Fox News' Alex Pappas contributed to this report.
Gregg Re is a lawyer and editor based in Los Angeles. Follow him on
Twitter @gregg_re or email him at ***@foxnews.com.