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Responsible for deciding trumps fate if he is impeached by the house. joining us on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos and with us from washington, d.c., congressional reporter for the daily beast, sam brody, danny, great to have you with us, and yesterday, some people were saying on social media, gordon sondland pretty much threw everyone under the bus and everyone was in the loop, president trump, the vice president one meeting, secretary of state mike pompeo. he had the receipts, h...

I mean, sondland may be naive about some things, but he is not dumb. he came in armed with larger names than his own, trading up on his bosses in the same way he once traded money for dirt on their behalf. its funny, right? if you rely on someone aversed to power plays, they rely on you. who was in on this plot, according to gordon sondland? it was everyone. >> mr. giuliani, president trump, secretary pompeo, secretary perry, brian mccormick, miss kenna, chief of staff mulvaney and mr. mulvaneys...

>> he did absolutely the opposite. he did, you know, im ready for my close up. he was -- he came with that big sort of smile on his face. he was ready to tell his story. he believes in his story, and he believes -- he emphasized a couple of points. this was the official policy of the president of the united states he was enacting. it wasnt some sort of rogue campaign. everybody was in on it, everybody knew what was going on. despite what they might tell you, everybody was in the loop. the other ...

Impeachment and how its going if he had taken the fifth. he decided to say a lot of things that maybe he didnt have to say. there are some work the republicans can do with him, because hes a problematic witness. i dont think hes as transparent and straight forward. hes changed his testimony. hes remembered things he didnt before. tried a little at the end do protect the president, a little bit. overall, essential lip, systematically, ambassador sondland exploded all of the defenses you expected ...

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Were not expecting gordon sondland to testify to what he testified to earlier today. the president latching on to those comments as you saw just a short while ago. but remember what gordon sondland said during his testimony. that everyone was in the loop. this was not a secret. the president is trying to make the case tonight i think, wolf, that everybody was in the loop but himself. wolf. >> that is an important point indeed. stand by over there at the white house. evan, the president was denyi...

On. listen to this. >> in august when you worked with rudy giuliani and a top ukrainian aid to draft a public statement for president zelensky to issue including the announcement of the investigation news burisma you understood that was required by president trump before he would grant the white house meeting to president zelensky? >> that is correct. >> and the ukrainians understood that as well? >> i believe they did. >> and you informed secretary pompeo about that statement as well? >> i did....

Whistle-blowers report, telling the presidents defenders exactly what they did not want to hear. they called him apparently expecting him to say what he said in his closed-door testimony, that he saw no evidence of a quid pro quo, or lets call it for what it is again, a shakedown. well, now he says he was wrong. he was out of the loop. he didnt know burisma meant biden. >> since i gave my testimony on october 3rd, a great deal of additional information and perspectives have come to light. ive le...

York, if i had known of all of mr. giulianis dealings or his associations with individuals now under criminal indictment, i would not have acquiesced to his participation. >> yes. he also says at the time we thought nothing was improper which is kind of surprising and confusing to me about why he would think this was proper to go through rudy giuliani. the bigger point here, wolf, to me is that he says everyone was in the loop. period. end of sentence. >> from the president on down. >> it was no...

Along with china, russia, was it held hostage to the presidents political demands and from gordon sondlands testimony, sworn under oath, he faces the penalty of jail time if he is not speaking the truth here, that is a fact. and thats a remarkable, remarkable fact. >> yeah, he says at one point, jeffrey, everyone was in the loop. im reading directly from his opening statement. it was no secret everyone was informed by email on july 19th, days before the presidential call. as i communicated to th...