Tim Morrison claimed Ambassador Gordon Sondland said military aid to Ukraine would be released if its top prosecutor announced an investigation into the Bidens.
The allegation that President Donald Trump had nearly $400 million of military aid temporarily withheld from Ukraine in an effort to pressure the country into publicly opening an investigation into his political rival and former Vice President Joe Biden has been at the center of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
At a closed door hearing with House representatives, he said Sondland told Yermak it would be"sufficient if the new Ukrainian Prosecutor General... would commit to pursue the Burisma investigation," in return for the release of military aid.
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