It is the story of, once this Ambassador was pushed out of the way, the creation of an irregular channel, which, Ambassador Taylor, you described went all the way from the President through Mick Mulvaney through Ambassador Sondland through Ambassador Volker to Rudy Giuliani, that over time became apparent was not serving the U.S. interests but running deeply contrary to the U.S. interests, was, in fact, conditioning a White House meeting that the President of Ukraine desperately sought to establish himself as the new President of Ukraine and to demonstrate to friend and foe alike that he had a relationship with his most powerful patron, the United States of America, and conditioned $400 million of bipartisan, taxpayer-funded military support for a nation at war, on the front lines of Russian expansionism, a suspension of which was not in the U.S. interest, not in Ukraine's interest, not in our national security interest in no way, shape, or form.
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