When explaining the quid pro quo with Ukraine, Ambassador Gordon Sondland said President Trump was mainly interested in the announcement of investigations by Ukraine President Zelensky into the Bidens.

Said Sondland: “He had to announce the investigations, he didn’t actually have to do them, as I understood it.”

He later added: “The only thing I heard… was that they had to be announced in some form, and that form kept changing… the way it was expressed to me was that the Ukrainians had a long history of committing to things privately and then never following through.”