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Investigating former vice president biden. mr. yermak, the close advisors noted explicitly in august 2019 "new york times" story which was published before the beginning of the impeachment inquiry. in this article, yermak said that he and mayor giuliani did not discuss a link between a presidential meeting and investigations. witness testimony confirms yermak statement. ambassador volker testified there was no linkage between a potential meeting and investigations. although ambassador sondland t...

That. he did that. brian: meanwhile, lets just talk about gordon sondland for a second. he was the u.n. ambassador that donated to the presidents campaign. steve: a million dollars to the inaugural. brian: president obviously had some trust in him because they had cell phone number reportedly. and they were in communication, it seems. goneld gordon sondland amended his testimony. when he came out he first testified that he never thought there was any precondition on the aid to the ukraine. but t...

Joining us now is jeffrey toobin. sondland had testified before he didnt see a quid pro quo. he now says he did. let me read what he said here. he talks about a meeting where i said the resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement we had been discussing for many weeks. the investigation into the group connected to the bidens. >> what makes this so significant is that every witness except sondland had said i saw a quid pro quo. but sondl...

Andallegations against democratc lieutenant governor justin fairfax which fairfax has deni denied. one of the diplomat who has amended his testimony is basing your questions as democrats say it proves quid pro quo. correspondent mark meredith has the story. >> newly released documents show european union ambassador gordon solomon amended his congressional testimony on monday. sondland says he recalls a meeting in telling congress, "i said the resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until u...

Is. >> laura: oh, is it? here is what sondland actually said about quid pro quo. he said that i, i said the resumption of usa would likely not occur until ukraine provided public anticorruption occurred. i still do not know why or by whom the aide was present in, but i assumed the aide had become linked to the proposed anticorruption statement. in other words, he was offering something called an opinion to the ukrainians about why military aid was held up. gentlemen, congressman devin nunes, ran...

Sounds like a turning point, it is. >> laura: oh, is it? here is what sondland actually i said aboutuo quid pro quo. he said that i, i said the resumption of u.s. aid likely not occur until ukraine provided public anticorruption occurred. i still do not know why or by whom thead aid was presented, bt i assumed the aid had become linked to the proposed anticorruption statement. in other words, he was offering something called an opinion to the ukrainians about why military aid was held up. gentle...

William taylors testimony to be released. it was taylor who told the committee military aid to ukraine was directly tied by the white house and by rudy giuliani to ukraines willingness to investigate the bidens. this morning david hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs in mike pompeos state department, became the first witness this week to appear for a deposition, following stunning revelations from ambassador gordon sondland, the trump donor who changed his story yesterday, refresh...

Investigating the 2016 election and former vice president joe bid biden. in his updated testimony, sondland told congress that his memory was refreshed after reviewing the opening statements given by bill taylor and former adviser for russian and european affairs tim morrison. and that he now recalls telling the zelensky adviser, quote, that resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks. sondlan...

September 1st with one of president zelenskys top aides. i said that resumption of u.s. aid would not likely occur until the ukraine provided a public anticorruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks. how significant is all of this? >> its quite significant because this is somebody who is in direct contact with the ukrainians and also who is in direct contact with the president of the united states. and throughout this process, there are lots of people, including sondland, who...