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Yes. Now, ambassador taylor also testified that and mr. Morrison both of them testified that you told them that President Trump said there was no quid pro quo which you also included in the text message that you referred. But then you went on and they had slight variations as to what you told them, but then you said that to ambassador taylor that president zelenskiy himself not the Prosecutor General needed to clear things up in public or there would be a stalemate. And mr. Morrison recounted so...

Interested in conversations giuliani was having in the state of michigan with lawmakers in the state of michigan, so you see the ways in which the committee might be trying to go around giuliani, whether or not he decides to ultimately cooperate in any meaningful way or not. >> and garrett, it always jumps out at me when the committee makes clear they know about phone calls that have happened between donald trump and anyone else theyve subpoenaed. let me read this from kelly wards subpoena. in t...

Show as ambassador sondland has testified that the knowledge of this scheme to condition official acts, the white house meeting and $400 million in security assistance to an ally at war with russia was conditioned on political favors that the president wanted for his re-election. so i think a very important moment in the history of this inquiry. thank you. >> all right. chairman schiff, senator mccaskill, you were in the process of saying that short of calling the former mayor secretary giuliani...

>> jason is so right. so much of life and so much of this story starts in the movies. it is a reference you hear and see on a daily basis. pick your film. a lot of them happened to be mob movies. a lot of them happen to be scorsese and nature, but youre right. >> the whole mob set-up we said that a lot about this sort of administration especially with giuliani sort of being the point person. but now i think its as nicole said, you have someone who is called out. hes been called out. this is the ...

Go talk. he said talk to rudy. you subsequently said it was sort of like i dont want to talk about this. so it wasnt an order or a direction to go talk with mr. giuliani, correct? >> our conclusion and the conclusion of the three of us was that if we did not talk to rudy, nothing would move forward on ukraine. >> okay. and then that was may 23rd. you never had personal communications with rudy until august. >> thats correct. >> and ambassador volker was -- >> volker and perry and others. >> okay...

With accomplishing this dirty political op. that giulianis job was to go over there and talk to a corrupt prosecutor and get this corrupt prosecutor to help them forward this theory that joe bidens character was less than stellar. and, you know, its obvious and now we have a witness who says, yes, giuliani was speaking for the president. yes, giuliani was insisting on this. yes, there was a quid pro quo. so its a problem for the white house. >> lets listen to schiff for just a moment. >> -- is a...

So this is really -- and the white house has sent out the talking points. the president never said this. this is sondland saying this came from giuliani. >> chuck, we learned you didnt have to investigate corruption. just say youre going to do it. >> thats right. we heard a lot about how this white house was big, strong on anti-corruption efforts particularly in eastern europe and ukraine. nope, turns out brian, they wanted an announcement. it was all for show. i will say this if i may. what wer...

Direct, explicit instructions from the president and anyone who doesnt think that giuliani was carrying that water for the president is a little bit daffy. theyll go after his changing story. brian, i think thats a fair point. he may end up saying, you know, expressly before the day is out that i did it too. >> i cannot stop thinking about michael cohens congressional testimony when he sat there and by that point, the day he testified publicly he knew he was probably headed to jail. there was en...

Giuliani began as i said very late in the process after august 1st when i was first introduced to him by a text. from ambassador volker. so we had already begun those discussions i believe with the ukrainians prior to august 1st, so everything was being funneled through others including mr. volker. >> but you testified that mr. giuliani was expressing the desires of the president, correct? >> thats our understanding, yes. >> how did you know that? who told you? >> well, when the president says t...

Deviation that sondland made, it was him that gave ambassador bolltons rudy giulianis contact information and talking about that as a curious thing. thats the second thing in the last two days that witnesses have gone back to expressly link bolton to something. remember we learned that bolton had the one-on-one meeting with president trump about the aid from morrisons testimony and today we hear sondland going out of his way everyone thought it was him that connected bolton and giuliani. sondlan...