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Do me a favor though, and lists the things he wants. also, what do you think about sondlands credibility? he says hes not a notetaker. he said maybe his memory isnt the best and needed to be refreshed. >> everyone remembering different pieces of it in different ways, coming back and with sondland editing or adding bits and pieces to the testimony that makes it hard to unpack the order of events. sondland himself candidly says he doesnt have notes. hes not a notetaker guy. he said that openly. an...

Said that there are records of these emails. there are text messages. and you know, i think -- >> and that he doesnt even have access to them. >> and was denied access to some of them. i think its true the best defense is yeah we did it, but, you know, its not such a big deal. but i think it gets harder and harder if the democrats are able to get access to the documents. >> one thing on the naming names by the way and to your point gloria about dropping all the people in. i believes since this h...

Holmes, the senior u.s. embassy official in ukraine who overheard that phone conversation between the president and ambassador sondland at that restaurant in kiev. >> so i think david holmes is going to be interesting because gordon sondland toll us yesterday hes not a note taker. david holmes is a note taker. and he was shocked by that conversation. he went back, he memorialized it. and were going to hear exactly -- he was able to overhear exactly what was said. >> and you know what the attack ...

Saying, you never had a conversation directly with the president. >> again, no defense. if there was a defense, these people would be coming forward. one of the things also striking about david holmes was the level of detail in everything he talked about. gordon sondland yesterday said he wasnt a notetaker, david holmes is a notetaker. practically verbatim description of how the two tables were put together. why its so important, if you look back at sondlands testimony, how many times did he say...

Zelensky to look into the bidens. neither request had been included in the official talking points for the call prepared by the nfc staff but both were in donald trumps personal interest and the interests of his 2020 reelection campaign. and the ukrainian president knew about both in advance in part because of efforts by ambassador sondland and volker to make him aware of president trumps demands. the next day july 26, in kiev, holmes served as a note taker during a meeting between acting ambass...

The democrats original case was there was a this for that quid pro quo. a request for information on burisma and investigations in exchange for aid. we now know that is not true. the aid arrived and there are no investigations. then it morphed into, well, it will be a white house meeting for aid. now we find out the white house meeting was offered without conditions and no meeting happened. that morphed into, well, we need a statement from zelensky in exchange for aid. no statement was given, th...

With mr. yermak. when i reached mr. yermaks office ambassador sondland had already gone into the meeting. i explained to mr. yermaks assistant i was supposed to join the meeting and strongly urged her to let me in. she told me ambassador sondland and mr. yermak insisted the meeting with one-on-one with no note taker. i waited in the ante room until the meeting ended. when the meeting ended, the two staffers and i accompanied ambassador sondland out of the presidential administration building. am...

Even more ominously, he asked zelensky to look into the biden. neither request had been prepared in the talking points, but both in donald trumps perm intere -- personal interests and the interests of 2020 campaign. and they knew about the efforts to make them aware of demands. the next day, holmes served as a note taker in a meeting between acting ambassador and senior officials. th -- the president said he had three times raised very sensitive issues that he would have to t follow up on those ...

Io had not expected to join th meeting and was a flight of stairs behind ambassador sondland. when i reached mr. yermaks office, ambassador sondland had already gone in to the meeting. i explained to mr. yermaks assistant i was supposed to join as the embassys representative and urged her to let me in but told me ambassador sondland b a yermak insisted the meeting be one on be one with no note taker. i waited in the room until the meetingom ended with a mesh of ambassador sondlands staff and the...

The thing that allows senate republicans to return to defending the president, and will spare them here. >> it is always interesting, danny, to see how the different sides go after whoever is testifying, whether you tri to question their credibility, whether their own recollection. i think what we saw yesterday from republicans and the republican council is they tried to go after gordon sondland over his memory, over his recollection, that he was not a note taker, that he was kind of very inform...