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Declining to turn over documents or testify in front of the committees. i think this past week made it tougher for him to hold on to that position. you saw gordon sondland who was the -- is the u.s. ambassador to the european union say that everyone was in the loop including secretary pompeo, that he talked to him frequently and told him what he was up to. we saw a thats right went from the acting ambassador to the ukraine, bill taylor, to secretary pompeo at the end of august saying that it was...

State has repeatedly dismissed. >> even while all this noise is going on, yall are fixated on this. im not going to get into the issues surrounding the democratic impeachment inquiry. >> but now one of his own ambassadors have placed him squarely in the middle of the story. >> everyone was in the loop. >> gordon sondland told lawmakers pompeo knew about the quid pro quo with ukraine and claim he did nothing to stop it. >> we kept the leadership of the state department and the nfc informed of our...

Am bad door sondlands claim that many people were in the loop, as he said, including the state department on the activities of mayor giuliani, i think that is now, once again, being backed up because we see that there were these calls going from the white house to the state department to secure a call between giuliani and the state department. we see devin nunes appears to have been meeting with victor shoken in 2018 in vienna. the activities of the republicans to dig up dirt on the biden, if th...

Theres been a pretty consistent theme. >> frankly i couldnt believe what i was hearing. it was probably an element of shock that maybe in certain regards my worst fear of how our ukraine policy could play out was playing out. >> was there a quid pro quo? as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting the answer is yes. everyone was in the loop. >> he was being involved in a domestic political errand, and we were being involved in national secu...

Why. and secretary pompeo essentially gave me the green light. i mentioned to vice president pence before the meetings with the ukrainians that i had concerns that the delay in aid had become tied to the issue of investigations. again, everyone was in the loop. >> most striking is that after all this public testimony the president has mounted no actual defense. just the opposite. in blocking sworn testimony from all of his witnesses, hes prevented them from denying his involvement in the scheme....

Has the argument that, yeah, what he did was wrong, but it just doesnt rise to the level of impeachment -- has that given them cover? >> so, what these two weeks of hearings showed is that not only do we have the call record that everybody can read, but it was a months-long pressure campaign to get the ukrainians to launch two investigations, one into the dncs server, the other into the bidens, and that everybody was in the loop, according to ambassador sondland, and we had u.s. diplomats essent...

Contingent to an announcement. >> in order to get the white house meeting president zelensky would have to deliver these investigations. >> we all understood that these prerequisites for the white house call and white house meeting reflected president trumps desires and requirements. >> my clear impression was the security assistance hold was likely intended by the president either as an expression of dissatisfaction with the ukrainians or an effort to increase the pressure on them to do so. >> ...

President biden. >> what did ambassador sondland say -- tell you that he told mr. yermak? >> that the ukrainians would have to have the prosecutor general make a statement with respect to the investigations as a condition of having the aid lifted. >> mr. giulianis requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president zelensky. mr. giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election dnc server and burisma. mr. giuliani w...

Mccormick, mulvaney, and his senior adviser rob blair. ambassador taylor, ambassador volker, a lot of senior officials, everyone was in the loop. >> and that sounds like a witness list. and the question is whether or not the house will try to call these witnesses who seem like the logical people about to want to talk to next. right? and they will all probably say no. but here is an interesting piece. there is a way that in the actual impeachment trial in the senate there might be a way to get th...

Meet it. how did ambassador sondland get there? this is not a man who had any qualifications, except one. he wrote a check for $1 million. and that tells us about whats happening in washington. >> we have a criminal living in the white house. ambassador sondland by his own words told us, that everyone was in the loop. that means it is a criminal enterprise, engaged in by the president, from what we heard today, the vice president, the secretary of state and the chief of staff. >> i want you to e...