Aide recounts actions tying Trump to delay in Ukraine funds
(WorldNews Health)

WASHINGTON (AP) - Gordon Sondland, President Donald Trump`s emissary to the European Union, had a message when he met with a top Ukrainian official. Sondland said vital U.S. military assistance to Ukraine might be freed up if the country`s top prosecutor `would go to the mike and announce that he was opening the Burisma investigation,` a U.S. official told lawmakers. Burisma is the gas company in Ukraine where Democrat Joe Biden`s son Hunter served on the board. Sondland relayed the exchange moments later to Tim Morrison, then a National Security Council aide. In his private testimony to impeachment investigators made public Saturday, Morrison recounted that Sondland also told him he...