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Quote, big stuff, unquote, that benefits him, namely the biden investigation. and we have just learned from one top republican source that a number of gop lawmakers were more shaken by that testimony than they let on in public. well have more on that shortly. now, as for sondland the eu ambassador who somehow became one of the presidents three lieutenants on ukraine, thats if you take out the million dollars he gave to the trump inaugural committee, hes going to testify on wednesday. as you alre...

In ukraine. ambassador sondland replied yes he was in ukraine and went on to state that president zelensky loves your ass. i then heard president trump ask, so hes going to do the investigation? ambassador sondland replied that hes going to do it adding that president zelensky will do anything you ask him to. the call ended. he asked sondland whether the president, quote, gives a shit about ukraine. sondland replies that he does not saying he only cares about, quote, big stuff, unquote, that ben...

Sondland for his candid impression of the presidents views on ukraine, in particular holmes asked sondland if it was true that the president did not give a blank about ukraine. and sondland agreed with that. holmes said, quote, sondland stated that the president only cares about, quote unquote, big stuff, which meant big stuff that benefits the president like the biden investigation that rudy giuliani was pushing. holmes said was added to the list of witnesses who will now testify publicly in th...

Stuff? mr. holmes, big things, big stuff, big. the chairman, and you noted there was big stuff going on in ukraine like a war with. mr. holmes, yes. the chairman, and what did ambassador sondland say in reply, mr. holmes. he said, no, big stuff that matters to him like this biden investigation that giuliani is pushing. the chairman, so ambassador sondland conveyed that the big stuff the president cared about was stuff that benefitted the president, like the investigation into the bidens? mr. hol...

Testimony, gordon sondland said the president only cared about the investigations in s into t bidens. this is the take place we obtained on friday night. i heard president trump ask, so hes going to do the investigation? ambassador sondland replied hes going to do it, adding that president zelensky will do anything you ask him to. i asked ambassador sondland if it was true that the president did not give an "s" about ukraine? ambassador sondland agreed that the president did not give an "s" abou...

About corruption in ukraine because according to what weve seen from david holmes testimony he gave behind closed doors on friday, that he made it very clear from his conversations that the president was only concerned about one thing as it came to ukraine and that country should announce an investigation into the presidents political rival joe biden. now he did testify that he heard this july phone call, overheard it between gordon sondland the ambassador to the european union and the president...

Cared about the, quote, big stuff, meaning the bidens. >> reporter: richard, if you thought this week was crazy on the impeachment front, consider next week. eight witnesses will testify in public over three days. three of them listened to that phone call back on july 25th. and then theres the aforementioned gordon sondland. hell testify on wednesday. if the fact that hes already changed his testimony once is any indication, hes expected to be grilled by lawmakers from both parties. >> so much h...

The president inexplicably assigned him to work on ukraine instead. this witness who testified today, david holmes, they went into a high-level meeting with the ukrainian government, including a meeting with president zelensky just one day after president zelensky had that call with president trump. and at that point, david holmes said he hadnt himself had a readout as to what happened during the call the previous day between trump and zelensky. but zelensky the following day said president trum...

Ambassador sondland agreed the -- said the president only cares about, quote, big stuff. i noted there was big stuff going on in ukraine. like a war with russia. and ambassador sondland replied that he meant big stuff that benefits the president like the biden investigation that mr. giuliani was pushing. i want to bring in nbc news correspondent who covers congress and whos also been going through this. will you first just setup who is david holmes, this individual who gave his testimony today...

Ukraine, would you have recommended to the president that he ask a new president of ukraine to quote, find out about bidens son? >> no. >> i have no more questions. i yield back the balance of my time. >> yeah. she wouldnt have done any of those things. she wouldnt have stood for any of those things so they had to get her out of there. which would have worked perfectly except for the fact that people like that, people who have had to be abjected from the normal course so that the presidents guys...