By Kate Riga
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November 18, 2019 8:03 a.m.
Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, slated to publicly testify in the impeachment inquiry on Wednesday, kept acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Energy Secretary Rick Perry apprised of the Ukraine pressure campaign, according to emails obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
In one exchange, he assured the two that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was willing to talk about sham investigations into the Bidens and the 2016 election, just before a scheduled call with President Donald Trump.
“I talked to Zelensky just now. He is prepared to receive Potus’ call,†Sondland wrote. “Will assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will ‘turn over every stone.'â€
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