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Absolutely nothing to do with biden. >> still at the heart of the impeachment inquiry which brought another dramatic day on capitol hill, the ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland in the hot seat. >>y y-was it important to show up today? >> it is always important to show up when congress calls. >> are you here to sal skrvage replication? >> i dont have a replication to salvage. >> it is said that trump outsourced to rudy giuliani, and sondland testified we were disappointed by the pr...

They could not see because there was one official foreign policy being run here, according to testimony and our reporting, and then there was a shadow policy, also being run. and different people inside the government were told you have to go through giuliani. >> just to -- it continues down here, something you reference. he says, i did not understand until much later that mr. giulianis agenda might have included an effort to prompt the ukrainians to investigate biden or his son or to involve uk...

Who is in the room when the will not meet with anybody or president is having this talk to anybody. conversation, okay? >> harris: and then trump said gordon sondland the investor to there was confusion whether or not they would meet. the e.u. >> chris: given the reporting kirk voelker wh who is special designated all -- envoy to the that we had read and given ukraine. i sit next to mike pompeo with a erdogans very belligerent, very meeting with the congressional hostile public utterances, leade...

His syria policy, including leaders for the republicans in the room, kevin mccarthy, steven scalise and cheney and that seemed to get under the presidents skin yesterday. they are scrambling to come up with some sort of strategy. but right now the overwhelming sentiment on capitol hill is against the presidents policy in syria. >> lets talk about gordon sondland for a moment. he is an interesting character in the impeachment inquiry, because he is not obviously a diplomat but he is at the center...

>> who else is in the room? who is in the room when the president is having this conversation, okay? gordon sondland, ambassador to the eu, kurt volker who was our special designated envoy to the ukraine. i sat next to mike pompeo yesterday at the meeting with the congressional leaders and pd look, i understand i coordinated a coup against you by putting sondland and vom ke sondla sondland and volker in chanlg of ukraine policy and he said you know, they both work for me. there is no shadow poli...

Official, mckinley who resigned last week just wrapping up testifying behind close doors and as alex marquardt said a source confirmed lawmakers that he was concerned about the firing of a u.s. ambassador sounding the alarm about the activities in ukraine of the presidents lawyer rudy giuliani. >> reporter: today a new member added to the parade of officials going before congress. all confirming the concerns raised by the whistle-blower over what has been called the presidents shadow policy with...

Policy. that is according to congressman jerry conally who said, quote, kent told congressional investigators that the trio called themselves the three amigos and elbowed all the other officials at state out of the way. the self-described three amigos were identified as secretary of energy rick perry, u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondland, and special envoy kirk volker. they were asiped to carry out trumps agenda in ukraine which some have described a shadow policy just days after ambassador...

And from you, this has all happened after a decision and maybe because of a decision the president made. >> 100%. thanks to our international viewers for watching. for you "cnn newsroom" is next. to u.s. viewers, democrats in washington investigate the ukrainian controversy while candidates hit the debate stage. "new day" continues right now. p fiona hill telling them about her concerns about rudy giulianis shadow policy. >> the democrats should provide republicans and the president exactl...

Instrumental the president was in all of this. you hear a lot of talk about rudy giuliani doing a shadow foreign policy. well, rudy wasnt acting on his own. he was acting at the direction of the president. we have heard now in a number of reports that ambassador sondland was talking directly to the president. thats very unusual. normally ambassadors go through the state department. they go through the channels. the fact that the president and this novice diplomat sitting in brussels were running...

Democrats want to ask kent who had a close relationship with former ukrainian ambassador marie yovanovitch what was going on behind the scenes behind her removal and the shadow policy that may have been led by personal attorney rudy giuliani. much doesnt leak. the fight over the substance really not leaking in the traditional ways we see here in washington congressman jim jordan earlier today saying that these rules are simply unacceptable. listen. >> they are making the rules up as they go alon...