The video is evidence of the VP executing the official, open, public foreign policy of the United States, including the WH, State, the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine at the time, the IMF, the UK, reformers in Ukraine and others who wanted that corrupt thug Shokin gone. What Joe did is no different than the demands Trump makes of, e.g. Mexico, to close up its southern border, or else tariffs.
There's actually no equivalent between those acts and what Trump did on the phone call, and we know that because the WH panicked after that phone call and tried to bury it in an information vault that almost no one had access to. When Bill Taylor says the quiet parts out loud in those texts, Sondland sees the difference as well with the CYA, let's take this offline, responses.
