the impeachment hearings from last week were not the fireworks that we had maybe hoped
for or thought there were going to be last week.
If I had to really sum it up, I would say we got corroboration of a lot of stuff we
suspected and then we had one new piece of information, which was about a phone call
between the EU ambassador Gordon Sunland and Donald Trump, which took place while Sundland
was in a restaurant.
That phone call may have been surveilled by Russian intelligence.
We found out, uh, and bill Taylor's staffer overheard that phone call.
That call has since been corroborated.
It happened.
That's part of what we now have more information relating to.
Things changed this week.
Yesterday's testimony was much different and it was very devastating to the Trump narrative.
Now, whether it will do anything as another question we've already discussed, but let's
talk about the substance.
We had Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Veneman credible, clearly trustworthy, careful not
to say more than what he can defend with facts and personal knowledge.
Still, they were smearing and active duty member of the military because they didn't
like what he said, and we'll get to that a little bit later.
Every witness yesterday confirmed a part of the case against Trump.
Trump used foreign policy for his reelection campaign benefit.
He used military aid to try to get campaign favors through uh, getting Biden smeared.
It was an explorative act of bribery.
Yesterday we had Lieutenant Colonel Veneman and Jennifer Williams who are now firsthand
witnesses to the July 25 phone call.
Remember, Republicans previously complaining everything's hearsay.
Nobody has firsthand knowledge that changed yesterday I had told you the July 25 phone
call is not the whole story.
You can't just look at that to determine if there was bribery.
That was likely the conclusion to a story that started earlier with negotiations and
phone calls and emails.
And we confirmed that today because ambassador Gordon Sunland showed up and threw everyone
under the bus.
The, we were live streaming and the chat tripled in speed on our YouTube channel when Sunland
started speaking because we didn't know if Sundland was going to play the, I don't remember,
I plead the fifth game or if he would show up and effectively completely turn on the
president of the United States.
And he turned big time and Republicans panicked and try to mitigate what Sunland said.
But Sunland said everybody knew what was going on.
There were emails involving the national security council.
Rudy Giuliani was having conversations and text messages.
The president knew what was going on.
Sunland made clear that the idea that you know, maybe you could make the case that something
was implied, but we don't really know.
Sunland says, and he has the records to back it up.
Everybody knew what the deal was.
This was money in exchange for smears meeting in exchange for public press conference about
investigations Sunland through everyone under the bus, so that is devastating to Donald
Trump.
Kurt Volker amended prior testimony also in a way that was damaging to Trump.
He says, listen, I learned a lot more since my initial testimony and I have much more
to say.
Even Trump's supposedly strongest witness.
Volcker said Bidens and honorable man, and we hold him in high regard.
There is no basis to the conspiracies that Trump has been pushing.
So on the substance, this has been particularly today with Sunland, extraordinarily devastating.
Meanwhile, all Republicans can try to do, to slow it down is be boring.
Go into tangential stories about Hunter Biden or other irrelevant details.
Try to attack character, assassinate the witnesses and the real problem.
And ultimately, this is why nothing may quote happen as we're talking about in terms of
making things happen.
Too many Trump supporters either don't understand the severity of this and maybe they never
will, uh, or they, uh, have actually fallen for the very weak talking points of Republicans.
The goal would be if even some of the Trumpists can see what's going on, see what went down
and be pulled into the light by each one of these hearings.
Then it's a good thing.
And we'll of course be following all of them.
All of the live streams that youtube.com/the David Pakman show.