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Sondland, and kurt volker. after returning from inauguration, members of the u.s. delegation briefed president trump on encouraging first interactions with ukrainian administration. they urged the president to meet with zelensky, but the presidents reaction was decidedly hostile. the presidents order was clear, however. talk with rudy. during this meeting, ambassador sondland first became aware of what giuliani and the president were really interested in. this whole thing was sort of a continuum...

Jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and the pentagon, notably former chief counsel tomorrow very committee weve been watching, house tension. the washington bureau chief for the "new york times" and jonathan, the white house reporter for the associated press. good evening and welcome to all of you. jeremy bash, i would like to begin with you. what was it we witnessed today? what have we learned after today? >> well, the record is building. here you have four trump appointees who bucked...

Political rival that he apparently feared most, joe biden. trump sought to weaken biden and to refute the fact that his own election campaign in 2016 had been helped by russian hacking and dumping operation and russian social media campaign directed by vladimir putin to help trump. trumps team undermined military and diplomatic support for a key ally and undercut u.s. anti-corruption efforts in ukraine. trump put his personal and political interests above those of the united states. as ambassado...

Ambassador yovanovitch, she did so in defiance of a directive from the state department and the president. she responded to a lawful subpoena. so its only the brave folks serving in the state department and intelligence agencies that are coming forward. so the president has all the information that he claims would be exicculpatory, supposedly, b doesnt present it. but he really should be providing the information that presidents like nixon and clinton did.e >> we should note the state department...

Should be coming before this committee. i want you to take a sglichb w listen. >> now, there is one witness, one witness they wont bring in front of us and wont bring inspect front of the american people and thats the guy who started it all. >> i say to my colleague, id be glad to have the person who started it all come in and testify, president trump is welcome to take a seat right there. >> its more than president trump too. i mean there are many people, mick mulvaney comes to mindi, wo you wo...

Hill, to the committees, to basically clarify some earlier remarks he made and whether or not he was acting at the directive of the president, so this is one of the issues that were trying to determine. >> its in a big week where the pressure for the democrats has been get this done as quickly as possible, try to get it done before christmas. theres some doubts that will happen now. listen to jamie raskin, member of one of the committees, saying, sure, we want this information. to do what, thoug...

Bolton shut that meeting down, subsequently referred to a drug deal between sondland and mulvaney and instructed her and others to report their concerns to a white house lawyer. so i would just note that in addition to bolton being someone who has first-hand knowledge of all these discussions both with sondland and with the president, mulvaney is someone whos really emerged here as someone who was not only the recipient of the presidents directive in july to put the hold on the ukraine aid but w...

Election is the crime itself. you dont actually have to have zelensky agree or be aware it. the request creates the crime and the exposure for president trump. tim morrison is being looked at as a savior for trump in that hes making these assertions in his testimony. fundamentally, tim morrison also says that gordon sondland was acting at the directive of donald trump. has glenn those, when weve prosecuted cases before, sometimes the guy at the top doesnt get his hands dirty. sometimes he asks t...

Misdemeanor. prescribery would count. extortion. something thats in the general demain. but by itself the fact of smearing an ambassador or acting in this unprofessional and maybe hateful way, that would not be impeachable. >> today we know mark sandy of the office of management and budget is testifying behind closed doors today on a rare saturday of testimony. his testimony might be in the category of the whole follow the money, right? if an explanation and perhaps even a directive as to whose ...

>> clearly they want to hide the fact there was a directive from the president of the united states to get these investigations going. and i think the very first question that chairman schiff will ask ambassador sondland is in presenting the ultimatum to president zelensky, were you freelancing? were you doing this on your own, or were you doing this at the direction of president trump? and todays testimony that we now have from david holmes shows clearly that this directive came directly from t...