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Witnesses cant align their testimony with each other. but of course weve been getting a lot of reports about it. what does sondlands addendum mean for the logic of that process? >> well, it means that it was a good idea and it means that theres a reason why professional people do it this way. normally youre not treated to all the nonsense that flies around about it, but ambassador sondland is exhibit a of how important it is to be able to put people in that vice of having no other choice but to ...

Investigations. thats of course hunter bidens firm. it kept getting more insidious as the timeline went on. its just become more and more clear every day how rotten and corrupt this whole thing is. this is not just an addendum, not just an ask or demand. its not just a bit of impeachable extortion. this is the entirety of u.s. policy with regard to ukraine and the entire geostrategic lay of the land with this occupied country. and it revolves around the presidents personal lawyer and shadow fore...

Ambassador sondland has now aligned his testimony with the testimony of everyone else who spoke to him, who were in these key conversations, and who under oath said something different than he did. he has now aligned that testimony with them. so he has got the message that he needs to deliver the truth and the whole truth to the congressional committee. im glad weve got the addendum, it clears up the point you made very clearly that there was absolutely a quid pro quo. not necessary, by the way,...

That. as prosecutor, i learned you want to have a close hold in an investigation to keep the integrity of the investigation. otherwise the facts get out in the public that could compromise whether a witness really knows something or heard it from someone else, or theyre trying to manufacture an alibi. here in ambassador sondlands testimony you see the night before he testified to us hes on the phone with rick perry. >> about the events in question. >> yes, about the events in question. and a cou...

Investigation. otherwise, the facts get out in the public. it could compromise whether a witness really knows something or they heard it from someone else or theyre trying to manufacture an alibi. here in ambassador sondlands testimony you see that the night before he testified to us hes on the phone with rick perry. and rick perry a couple -- >> about the events in question. >> yes, about the events in question. a couple days before that rick perry gives an interview to the "wall street journal...

Discussions between u.s. officials and ukrainian officials with rudy giuliani kind of on the outside weighing in about ukrainian officials releasing an official statement talking about the 2016 election and potential investigations into burisma, the company that had hunter biden on its board. heres where that runs into a problem. youve talked also about the addendum to gordon sondlands testimony. in that addendum, after that time frame, volkers understanding the statement had been dropped, a wee...

The white house. what exactly is the white house saying? >> reporter: so, brooke, read you stephanie grishams statement and point to what we saw in the testimony released today from gordon sondland, ambassador to the european union. stephanie grisham press secretary says beth transcripts released shows less evidence for this illegitimate impeachment sham than previously thought says ambassador sondland squarely says he does not know and still does not know when aid was suspended presumedals a li...

Linked. this will no doubt fuel the democrats impeachment push, the piling up of evidence that they have slowly been doing over the last days and weeks and months on capitol hill to outline a quid pro quo. even before this, many democrats wanted to see gordon sondland back on capitol hill to testify in the public portion of their impeachment inquiry, most notably this will fuel that push even more to have him come back up and clarify his statement. for republicans too this is significant. certai...

Well talk about the breaking news with congressman john garamendi. and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first, lets go to our justice correspondent jessica schneider. some very significant changes to ambassador sondlands testimony. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. [ inaudible ]. >> hold on for a moment. were going to get to your report right now. >> reporter: tonight gordon sondland is trying to walk back some of his congressional testimony. the ambassador to the european union releas...

Walking away from that. another thing that were seeing from sondland and from the testimony is how many people knew and understood early on that what was transpiring was wrong? and if the president, if anybody thought that this was something that was okay and worthy of doing and pursuing, why do it through an regular channel as bill taylor described it. why not have yovanovitch do this? why not have your secretary of state publicly state out and go to congress before they appropriate that money ...