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Investigated, but this in two days was the second federal judge who went further than that, to question the long-standing justice department memos that say that a president cant be criminally charged. so if judges are now starting to go at those justice department memos that say that presidents are immune from prosecution, its starting to look like the white house and bill barr may have bitten off way more than they can chew. so this is all happening very fast. its all happening at once. grand j...

Time of mr. trumps july 25th call. as i said on the phone, i think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a politic campaign. sondland replied, bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. before sondland sent that response, he called the president. cnn has learned white house and national security officials scrambled to contain the fallout ...

Conclusion by u.s. intelligence that russia interfered in the election to help president trump. that conversation on top of the recently released text messages linking u.s. aid to ukraine, to ukraine investigating the bidens. the top diplomat in ukraine bill taylor wrote to sondland, quote, as i said on the phone, i think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with the political campaign, unquote. sondland waited about five hours and then replied, quote, bill, i believe you are inc...

Johnson. who got to him, what changed his view of the situation in the couple days. certainly theres a lot to be gained from the testimony tomorrow. >> of course answering that question. why say call me. >> why dont you want a record. >> lets unravel this with two of the smartest guys i know. cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin and david gregory. he paid me to say that about him. his testimony tomorrow will be of really big moment in this inquiry. his name is all over those text messages. let...

Okay? so gordon sondland takes five hours to reply to that pretty obvious text, and the "new york times" reports first he goes to consult with president trump, and then here is his very candid response. bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. the president is trying to evaluate whether ukraine is truly going to adopt the transparency and reforms that president zelensky promised during his campaign. i...

To fight that fight. thats exactly what our troops are doing there. to say this is an endless war, i have to vehemently disagree. >> the president says turkeys our friend. this is his land. turkeys got concerns, they say these people have terroristic intentions against them, i dont want to get in the way. >> theres no doubt there have been real tensions between turkey and some of the kurds. some of that turkey is legitimately upset about, but that is painting the kurds with a broad brush. now th...

Another, the first one being bill taylor, essentially running the ukraine policy out of the white house since -- excuse me, for the white house, since they recalled the ambassador. he asked another official in express concern there was going to be a quid pro quo situation happening here into which gordon sondland replied, supposed to testify today, i believe youre correct about the presidents intentions saying "the president -- you are incorrect. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro...

Released text messages between sondland and other diplomats. in one exchange, senior u.s. diplomat bill taylor writing i think its crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. sondland replying over four hours later. >> i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind, adding i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. >> i am concerned about that we are undergoing right now a cover-up...

President trumps intentions. he has been crystal clear, no quid pro quo of any kind. the president is trying to evaluate whether ukraine is truly going to adopt the transparency and reforms president zelensky promised during his campaign. i have to ask you, what is the significance of that exchange and how important -- by the way it sounds sanitized. >> that doesnt read like a text. it reads like the back of your credit card bill. its very carefully stated. and it comes after more informal conve...

To talk to him about these discussions. here to discuss, jessica engle, dana bash. this is about sondland and what he would have to testify about. the most senior in ukraine texts about, quote, help for a political campaign. he calls it, quote, crazy. the eu replies after several hours with this. quote, bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quos of any kind. >> he said, whats going on