the washington post suggests that the gist of that text was guinn to sondland by the president himself. sondland is expected to testify that he has no knowledge if the president was telling the truth. he didn t understand at the time the president wanted an investigation into the bidens. and the source says sondland is pushing back on the idea that national security advisers were alarmed about a possible quid pro quo. manu raju on capitol hill with more. reporter: good morning, dave and christine. now, a key moment will come later today, in this impeachment inquiry, when gordon sondland, the current ambassador to the european union for the united states, does come and testify. his role and all of the matter involving that phone call with president trump and president zelensky of ukraine, where president trump urged him to investigate the bidens. this has come to light in various testimony and text
european union does come and testify about all of the discussions that occurred around that phone call. so a lot more ahead after today s key testimony, wolf. manu raju on capitol hill. more on this. democratic congressman mike quigley is joining us, a member of the intelligence committee. thank you for joining us. we have a lot to discuss. but first this truly extraordinary meeting at the white house today. completely derolfed devolved the president and storming out. what is your reaction to this? first of all, speaker pelosi can take care of herself. and i think you could make the case that she s the most successful female elected official in our country s history. so that is fine. it blinds us, i think, momentarily to the bigger issues here and that is that the united states has backed out of a commitment to the only troops really fighting isis on the
criticizing the process calling it a sham process and already from the day you re born we never stop taking care of you. hearing without the testimony taking place some partisan chip on both sides. democrats saying the republicans have just simply just theatrics for them. republicans criticizing the process. this is part of a busy week as democrats press forward on this impeachment probe, deadlines for a range of documents including for rudy giuliani to turn over documents he was subpoenaed for this democrats related to what he did to ukraine and also that big testimony on thursday with gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union, what he knew of efforts by the president to withhold military aid and so all this democrats hope to get it s what gives audible themembers an edge.listening; information in the coming weeks and coming this week and think it opens our minds, veal to make a decision about changes our perspective, how quickly to move to whether or not impeach th
former officials to testify this two minutes. he is the ambassador to the week. european union and the testimony one is eu ambassador sondland. was blocked by the white house last week. according to the washington post he is going to testify according to the washington post though sondland is expected to tell congress that that this key text message the president told him there was exchange was directly dictated no quid pro quo in regards to to him from president trump and that sondland is going to say he ukraine and also expected to doesn t know if the president testify that he didn t know if was telling him the truth or the president was telling him not. what do you do with that, the truth. congressman? what does that mean to the or not. cnn s senior congressional investigation? i think what it means is a correspondent manu raju on lot of information is being gathered that will clearly capitol hill following this. what are you hearing about implicate president trump putting tog
officials to change the management structure at a ukrainian state-owned energy company to benefit individuals involved with rudy giuliani s push to get ukrainian officials to interfere in our 2020 election. rick perry said that he would look into this, that was before the white house letter came out earlier this week, saying essentially that the administration would not comply whatsoever. the question is, what will they do next? a big question, jake, is what did he know about what rudy giuliani did? the president directed giuliani to talk, to deal with directed perry to talk to giuliani about his conversations with ukraine. gentlemanic? manu raju on capitol hill. let s chew overall of this. the allegation is starting to get dense and confusing. but the allegation is that there s a bunch of ukrainians in ukraine, and president trump, rudy giuliani and others are