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Sondland saying i brought it up myself and brought it back into play. >> thank you. glad you brought in up. ellie, before i jump to you, you made a great point at commercial break. saying shadow or parallel foreign policy. this was on policy. right? >> this literally has nothing to do with foreign policy. underlined it. people with government titles were involved, this was a misuse of government resources to advance a personal political agenda. striking to me is someone who worked in government ...

Worked on this with rudy giuliani and with the ukrainians and the statement, announcing information warfare. u.s. government officials were testifying under oath they asked the ukrainians to issue a statement to influence u.s. public opinion about politics. this is a watershed moment. as concerned as they were and disappointed, they were still actively engaged in these activities and testified they were under oath. >> and you mentioned kurt volker. we have his transcript thanks to this house com...

We are back with more breaking news on this terse afternoon. the deal, we are getting a transcript from congress one of the key testimonies from the last couple of weeks. eu ambassador and trump inaugural donor gordon sondland. so we know he has recently refreshed his testimony from initially when he was going into quid pro quo and how that only pertained to the president saying yes to the zelensky meeting over the white house instead of saying yes why they withheld the military aid. why did he ...

Their time on him at all. they have good witnesses already. theyve done their closed hearings. they have bill taylor. they have lieutenant colonel vindman. they have marie yovanovitch. they have ambassador mckinley. they have people who have credibility, who have given a lifetime of service to the country, who are nonpartisan and who have come forward and testified under oath to the facts. and so amongst those witnesses and maybe a couple others, theyll determine which ones they want to have com...

Wait for the court to decide about testimonies of aids like charles kupperman and perhaps even john bolton. why do you think this to be -- or do you think this needs to be done at a rapid pace? i understand the political calculation with the upcoming election and this kind of sucking the oxygen out of that. but isnt there something do be said for getting as much evidence as you possibly can? >> well, certainly there is. and from the beginning, we said we wanted to do a very methodical, a very th...

Whistleblower saying look, i think that the white house pushed a u.s. official out of her position in ukraine to promote a private agenda that was being pursued through rudy giuliani. and these testimonies are saying, yeah, we think so too. >> so important to break it down in this way. tom, thank you so much. again, we are waiting to see what the next batch, if you will, of testimony transcripts will be when they have them, we will of course bring it all to you. but joining me now is former spok...

About this? >> for me im lookin for two things. obviously i want to see differences and mismatches between sondland and volker, between themselves, but also between them and the other witnesses. i mean, weve seen almost everything coming out has verified the whistleblowers complaint. and it will be interesting to see the degree to which it lines up with volker and sondland. and number two, ill be looking for how much detail and context is there in these testimonies about the role of rudy giulian...

Good career service -- foreign service employees were basically displaced or left the state department. >> chairman schiff today said that the house committees arent going to delay their work and wait for the court to decide about testimonies like aides like charles kupperman and john bolton. why do you think this needs to be -- do you think this needs to be done at a rapid pace? i understand the political calculation with the upcoming election and this kind of sucking the oxygen out of that. bu...

It really is kind of through the looking glass. and his colleagues would disagree with him. someone like senator grassley has also done a lot of work on whistle-blower protection. but, yeah, advocating that the law is broken and outing this person who has -- who, through his lawyers, have expressed credible threats to this individual. and his -- and the whistle-blower complaint through the intelligence committee inspector general was deemed urgent and credible. not to mention, i have to also poi...

View is they would be wasting their time with rudy giuliani. i dont think his testimony -- if he ever were to testify, it would be a circus. i dont think -- hes not going to be cooperative, so i think it would be like the lewandowski hearing. i dont think they should waste their time on him at all. they have good witnesses already. theyve done the closed hearings. they have bill taylor. lieutenant colonel vindman. they have marie yovanovitch, ambassador mckinley. they have people who have credib...