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Kurt volker, who resigned just one day after the release of the 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 ad...

Heres just part of what is in this opening statement that he will read before the committee in moments. sondland will say, and im quoting now, i know that members of this committee have frequently framed these complicated issues in the form of a simple question. was there a quid pro quo? as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and white house meeting, the answer is yes. the ambassador will then go on to say and once again im quoting, everyone was in the loop. it w...

Which -- by the way, you said that the statement didnt go anywhere. ambassador volker said it wasnt a good idea. mr. yermak said it wasnt a good idea. the secretary, it relates to a generic openness subject. right? >> yeah, i think the secretary that was on the july 25th call. which obviously i was not on and i didnt know about. >> but you use this email to suggest that everyone was in the loop. security sector assistance was tied to some sort of act by the ukrainians. >> no, i dont think i said...

Was in the loop. he dialed that back by the end of the day. what you make of that? >> one of your colleagues has tweeted that in fact not everybody was in the loop, because there was a statement to the effect that secretary pompeo was not informed to any of that. if ive gotten that right, forgive me, but that seems to be what has developed since the close of the hearing. the fact is that there was an awful lot of presumption on the part of the ambassador. i just dont think you can build a case o...

Giuliani and giuliani did not relate that he was tying on behalf of the president or on the presidents behalf aide and then giuliani never said to him that aide was tied to investigations. the question i have for you is, did you ever have a conversation with giuliani that did not involve volker? your testimony is a lot of "we" and so do you and giuliani have a separate phone call where giuliani told you that the aid was tied. volker said that never happened. >> i did have a few conversations. i ...

Over every stone. he would greatly appreciate a call prior to sunday so that he can put out some media about a friendly and productive call, no details, prior to ukraine election on sunday. chief of staff mulvaney responded. i asked the nfc to set it up for tomorrow. everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. everyone was informed via email on july 19th, days before the presidential call. as i communicated to the team, i told president zelensky in advance that assurances to run a fully transpar...

Had today? obstruction of justice? and now back to quid pro quo. we would never want to do all that. if the whistleblower would have testified. he wouldnt have to speculate about what the whistleblower only had in his or her complaint. and nobody seems to know. i yield back to mr. castor. >> thank you, mr. nunes. i want to turn -- a couple times in your opener you said everyone was in the loop. i just want to -- these televised proceedings, sometimes we lose track of things. everyone was not in ...

Specifics next week. all of which referred to the 2016 and the burisma. ms. kenna replied gordon, ill pass to the secretary, thank you. again, everyone was in the loop. curiously, and this was very interesting to me, on august 26th shortly before his visit to kiev, ambassador boltons office requested mr. giulianis contact information from me. i sent ambassador bolton the information directly. they requested mr. giulianis contact information on august 26th. i was first informed that the

Indeed, neil cavuto, representative jordan said he would not expect to hear from the next round of witnesses for another hour. this is getting pushed way back. in the meantime, a recap of what we just saw. president trumps ambassador to the european union drawing the whole mass of folks into the fray today. acting as a major spoiler, involving people in the impeachment fray who have managed to stay out of it. in one fail swoop drawing and the vice president, secretary of state pompeo and chief o...

Strong performance gordon sondland. to pick up on what chris wallace was saying, its going to have tremendous impact in terms of public opinion. i dont think theres any question about the heart of his testimony in which he said, "yes, there was a quid pro quo." and then you see that he is, in blunt terms, saying that everyone was in the loop. we are the rhetoric from president trump, which is "i had a direct conversation with this man and he has accurately recounted that there was no quid pro qu...