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Way, shape or form. >> president trump first wanted the whistle-blower outed. now, he is saying he doesnt think the whistle-blower exists. this, after a week of dramatic testimony in the house impeachment inquiry. a total of 12 witnesses, many of them career foreign service officers, testified publicly over a period of five days. providing more than 34 hours of evidence, in the impeachment inquiry. nbc has the highlights. >> reporter: after a dramatic week two of public impeachment hearing, repu...

It has been another long week on the impeachment front and just in the last five days, for example, a total of 12 witnesses many of them career foreign service officers testifying publicly providing more than 34 hours of evidence. nbcs haiti przybyla has highlights. >> reporter: after a dramatic week two of public impeachment hearings republicans are already plotting how theyll defend president trump in the senate as democrats contemplate their next move in the house. >> everyone was in the loop...

>> mr. giuliani to secretary pompeo, secretary perry, brian mccormick, chief of staff mulvaney, and mr. mulvaneys senior advisor rob blair. everyone was in the loop. >> ambassadors volker and sondland and secretary rick perry also attended the meeting. i attended with dr. hill. we had not completed all the agenda items and we still had time for the meeting and ambassador bolton abruptly ended the meeting. >> you tell eisenberg, ambassador bolton told me, that i am not part of the -- this whateve...

It all came from the top, from trump. everybody knew, right, as our new episode was -- >> everybody was in the loop. >> everybody was in the loop. and when he broke down, like, we didnt really want -- or trump didnt really want an investigation. he just wanted thet appearancef an investigation. >> the appearance, yeah. >> so he can hold that over his head, the new hillary emails. >> why is that important? >> because trump has been trying to make the point, republicans have been trying to make th...

Ambassador sondlands role. >> he was being involved in a domestic political errand, and we were being involved in national security foreign policy, and those two things had just diverged. so he was correct. and i had not put my finger on that, at the moment, but i was irritated with him and angry with him that he wasnt fully coordinating. and i did say to him, ambassador sondland, gordon, i think this is all going to blow up. and here we are. >> and here we are. domestic political errand, she ca...

And implementation, one regular and one highly irregular. >> one of the main players to help carry it out came clean to congress yesterday. and not only pointed fingers at those high up in the white house for their involvement in the scheme -- remember, he said everybody knew about it. but trump donor and ambassador gordon sondland directly implicates the president in the scheme. >> so we followed the presidents orders. was there a quid pro quo? the answer is yes. everyone was in the loop. >> at...

Call unusual, because in contrast with other presidential calls i had observed, it involved discussion of what appeared to be a domestic political matter. >> so we followed the presidents orders. was there a quid pro quo? the answer is yes. everyone was in the loop. ambassador sondland replied, yes, he was in ukraine, and went on to state, president zelensky, quote, loves your ass. i then heard president trump ask, then hes going to do the investigation? and ambassador sondland replied that hes ...

So laura, what was the biggest revelation in the past three days? >> the biggest revelation was there was the quid pro quo. it is an interesting revelation. we knew that this was the expected fact pattern and to hear it through the televised hearing was the most important aspect of it because remember, you have to get the public support behind the discussions about the impeachment and what was extraordinarily riveting is it came from someone who still works in the administration, and gordon sond...

Said, of course, in our report, the russians tried to influence our elections. democrats didnt sign on with that report to america on russian influence. >> i think she was obviously referring to the president doesnt seem to believe it. but more over, sean, what about the -- lets see if we can agree on the facts. lets see if we agree this morning on the facts weve learned over the past two weeks. gordon sondland said yes there was a quid pro quo. gordon sondland said everyone was in the loop. gor...

She recognized to be the presidents personal political agenda. here is how she describes ambassador sondlands role. >> he was being involved in a domestic political errand, and we were being involved in national security foreign policy, and those two things had just diverged. so he was correct. an i had not put my finger on that at the moment, but i was irritated with him, and angry with him that he wasnt fully coordinating. and i did say to him, ambassador sondland, gordon, i think this is all ...