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This is the move. sondland updating his past congressional testimony and going, all of a sudden, i now recall the bribery plot. youre now looking at where things stand today. so dmr sondland movered over. on the left thats what you have. you have donald trump and mulvaney who told the country there was bribery only to retract and you have trump. on the right you have a lot of other kredsabcredible testimony. what do prosecutors do with case that has this kind of testimonial evidence? veteran pro...

About this entire ukrainian gambit. once after the phone call on july 25th. but prior to that, after this meeting that fiona hill testifies about on july 10th, because in his view, these comments from gordon sondland were so deeply concerning. fiona hill testifies to that as well and says that bolton was so concerned about it that he immediately ended the meeting. she goes on to say, in a follow-on meeting on the same day, ambassador sondland again researched an agreement with chief of staff mul...

And ambassador sondland pushing and insisting there was no quid pro quo bribery. even the in private taylor objected. you had those two camps. bribery and no bribery and boom. the whistle-blower joins the bribery chorus filing a complaint about this plot. at that point those were the battle lines. some people involved said it was a bribery plot. other people involved denied it. thats a split case. back to our chart. enter trump aide mick mulvaney to admit the bribery plot saying famously saying ...

Im joined now by the white house by white house reporter aisha roscoe and the former white house speech writer for george w. bush. good evening to both of you. >> good evening. >> david, let me start with you on the box that we saw some people publicly put themselves in if they want to defend trump but they previously said p obviously proof of a bribery plot would be bad. >> right. well, they started off with a stupid argument and partly maybe it was embarrassing. they retreated to a depraved ar...

>> now youre saying the president of the united states, the chief law enforcement person cannot ask somebody to cooperate with an ongoing public investigation into wrongdoing? thats just bizarre to me. >> are you saying that the money that was held up that that had nothing to do with the bidens? >> the money held up had absolutely nothing to do with biden. >> over the course of that appearance, he ultimately conceded and defended the bribery plot. get over it, then walked it back. with the benef...

Vindman, experts have called him something of an unimpeachable witness in this impeachment probe or todays news, this new full transcript from bill taylor and trump aide tim morrison. thats five officials confirming the bribery plot. show me the proof, consider it shown say the democrats. now, what about some of trumps most influential media defenders. they have a different issue. theyve already boxed themselves, some of them into denying bribery because before trump made his defense clear, they...

Want to read you exactly what happened behind closed doors. he asks are you aware that quid pro quo literal lirr means this for that. and taylor says i am. these exchanges are part of what rocked washington when these first occurred. we didnt have the transcript on that day, just video of lawmakers walking out gasping and saying things like this. >> in my ten short months in congress, its not even noon, right, and this is my most disturbing day in congress so far. very troubling. >> very troubli...

Something that as we reported at the time was contradicted by other insiders. democrats pressing sondland on potential perjury for those very claims. perjury to congress is no joke. today roger stone is starting his own criminal trial for the same thing, for lying to congress. so how does a diplomat change his story under these conditions? by suddenly remembering and recalling things. in this new testimony out for the first time today, sondland says some version of i now recall eight different t...

Trumps point person confirming the way trump sought this bribe. he wanted something from ukraine, the biden probe. he wasnt giving them that u.s. aid unless they bribed trump with the fro-- they wanted this whole investigative storm they were tookicooking up to hit joen and box him in. sondland now telling congress trump, quote, he wanted it public. okay. two more simple things. when asked what he thought about asking ukraine to investigate the bidens, this whole bribery plot that sondland was w...

Probe by someone who as of tonight still works for president trump. i turn now to former federal prosecutor joyce vance and john flannery as well as emily bazlan from "the new york times" magazine. john, this sounds like very damning testimony -- >> yes. >> -- from maybe one of the worst people with the closest hands and action on the bribery plot for the trump white house. >> right, it does. its an important piece of corroboration for the others that seem to come forward unblemished and talk in...