witness account. right. not a second hand source, not the whistle-blower. the ear witness account at this point that we ve had so far. you re right ant thabout tha chuck. there are four fact witnesses who went before house investigators in private and testified to the existence of a quid pro quo or a shakedown or a bribery plot. there are six, if you include senator ron johnson and mick mulvaney who admitted to a quid pro quo before trying to walk it back. so on this day, in which president trump tried to refocus the nation s attention to this july 25th phone call, which president trump says was perfect, we got the testimony, the transcript of the testimonies of two more white house officials. people who cannot be described as never trumpers, who according to their testimonies, reacted in horror in real time as they learned what was a coordinated campaign. not a phone call that existed in isolation but a coordinated pressure campaign aimed at getting the ukrainians to open invest
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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. you re now looking at where things stand today. so dmr sondland movered over. on the left that s 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 prosecutor tells us when we re back in just 30 seconds. n we re back in just 30 seconds.
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 mulvaney for a meeting with the ukrainians if they were going to go forward with investigations and he specifically mentioned burisma. so this speaks to that quid pro quo, to that bribery plot, to the shakedown, insert your chosen phrase of reference here. you have fiona hill speaking to this favor that president trump wanted ukrainian officials to do for him. that speaks directly to the case
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. that s a split case. back to our chart. enter trump aide mick mulvaney to admit the bribery plot saying famously saying quid pro quo bribery happens all the time. could that last with the number one stapffer stay in that camp. no. here you see mulvaney migrating