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What was just testified to. >> and its a little odd, its theater that the key witness namely ambassador sondland is not on tap yet. so we are hearing all these conversations and testimony about what he said, what he meant. well, you would say, as a judge in a trial, excuse me, this is all hearsay, bring on ambassador sondland. >> bret: not only that now we have this new element which chris referenced earlier which is the phone call that is supposedly between sondland and president trump where a ...

Me. and then what you have in front of you is an addendum that mr. sondland made to his testimony that we got a couple weeks ago. says declaration of ambassador gond sondland. >> i do hereby swear and affirm as follows. i wanted you to look at bullet point number two second sentence. ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told that i told mr. morrison that i conveyed in conversation to from yermak september 19th, 2019 in qu x no vice presidents visit to warsaw and a meeting with zelensky. t...

We do know what gordon sondland said. he did testify that he told the ukrainians that aid was held up because of this ask for investigations, until that happened. although in his addendum, he said he didnt recall exactly how he knew that. republicans will try to make the case theres no linkage to the president. well see if theyre able to succeed. >> and americans will have to decide if they believe that all of this happened without the presidents knowledge and independent of him. thank you very ...

Witness after witness with the exception of ambassador sondland is clear proof that not just did the president ask for specific action by the president of ukraine on the call that we have the transcript of -- not a transcript but a memorandum. but what we are finding with this testimony is that there is an extensive set-up and cover-up that took place before that call and after that call. >> i want to point out in fairness to ambassador sondland, he did revise or refresh his testimony under oath...

>> reporter: the campaign to remove a use ambassador disturbed many others at the state department as well, including michael mckinley, a former senior adviser to secretary of state mike pompeo who went to his boss three times, according to his testimony, urging pompeo to release a statement in support of yovanovitch, which pompeo has publicly denied. >> its deeply troubling when the secretary of state is lying to the american public about anything and most certainly when hes lying about any ste...

Sondlands addendum that he released yesterday, that the president told ambassador sondland theres no quid pro quo, but zelensky has to investigate the bidens. and so the president can say theres no quid pro quo, but if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck. you can say its not a duck, but it looks a lot like extortion. >> the first two witnesses that you plan to call next week, george kent and bill taylor who is the top diplomat in ukraine and weve seen the transcript of his testimony a...

To testify publicly? >> that remains to be seen. but with his new addendum to his testimony it is pretty compelling because with his new addendum he explicitly said there was a quid pro quo between the trump administration and the ukrainians. call it extortion or bribery, it is all the same thing when the president used his powers to freeze military aid, to dangle a critical meeting between the white house and the ukrainian leader in exchange for launching two bogus investigations. >> sondland d...

Reversal than what he said in early october. he said sondland was a great american, was highly respected. so now that sondland has provided this addendum to his testimony, trump said he hardly knows the gentleman. >> on capitol hill where republicans are landing right now, there is no linkage between a quid pro quo directly to the president getting past the reasons that they were asking ukraine to investigate. im not hearing so much on capitol hill any more about the conspiracy theories regardin...

Consistent. and interestingly, according to "the washington post" reporting, including by rachel bade who, of course, is a colleague of sorts here at cnn, behind closed doors in the senate, last wednesday, republicans got together and among others, it was ted cruz who is no shrinking violet and not a dummy who said, wait a minute, if his motive was one of protecting american taxpayers and tax dollars and not his own re-election, then theres no harm, no foul here. so i think they get it. frankly,...

Totally changed his life after his brothers presidency. >> the last chapter of his life was his proudest. i talked to president jimmy carter and his widow cybill and their six kids and they describe a man that was funny, smarkt, hard working and in the last years of his life he went around the country talking to people, a lot of blue collar people that could relate to him who were struggling with alcoholism. look, he was in his late 30s with six kids when the international press descended on the...