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SCHIFF: "You’ve testified that the White House meeting that President Zelensky desperately wanted and that was very important to President Zelensky, was it not?"
SONDLAND: "Absolutely."
SCHIFF: "You testified that that meeting was conditioned was a quid pro quo for what the president wanted these two investigations. Is that right?"
SONDLAND: "Correct."
SCHIFF: "And that everybody knew it."
SONDLAND: "Correct."
SCHIFF: "Now that White House meeting was going to be an official meeting between the two presidents, correct?"
SONDLAND: "Presumably."
SCHIFF: "It would be an Oval Office meeting hopefully?"
SCHIFF: "A working meeting."
SONDLAND: "A working meeting, yes."
SCHIFF: "So an official act."
SONDLAND: "Yes."
SCHIFF: "And in order to perform that official act, Donald Trump wanted these two investigations that would help his re-election campaign, correct?"
SONDLAND: "I can’t characterize why he wanted them. All I can tell you is this is what we heard from Mr. Giuliani."
SCHIFF: "But he had to get those two investigations if that official act was going to take place, correct?"
SONDLAND: "He had to announce the investigations. He didn’t actually have to do them, as I understood it."
SCHIFF: "OK. President Zelensky had to announce the two investigations the president wanted, make a public announcement, correct?"
SONDLAND: "Correct."
SCHIFF: "And those were of great value to the president, that he was quite insistent upon them and his attorney was insistent upon them?"
SONDLAND: "I don’t want to characterize whether they were valued, not valued. Again, through Mr. Giuliani, we were led to believe that’s what he wanted."