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Everyone was in the loop. it was no secret. that was the testimony from ambassador gordon sondland yesterday as he implicated the president, secretary of state, white house chief of staff and the former national security advisor bolton and other administration officials in the plot to bribe the president of ukraine to publicly launch an investigation into joe biden in exchange for u.s. military aid to ukraine that was authorized by congress and that the president was withholding. >> i followed t...

Case for free everything. and as i said today i know these things sound good on a bumper sticker and maybe they want to throw in a free car, but i really dont think that is what people want. they want a fair shake. they want opportunity. >> thats "hardball" for now. all " all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on "all in." >> this president believes he is above the law, beyond accountability. >> the fifth day of public impeachment hearings bolstering the case against the presidents ...

Sondland if we had an attorney general interested in enforcing the laws of the country, i actually think sondland implicated himself in a conspiracy to commit bribery, extortion, in a conspiracy to defraud the united states by reaching out to a foreign country to undermine our u.s. elections. flow, i dont pretend that anyones going to necessarily want to bring charges against him, but the fact he incriminated himself makes him a little bit extra credible. he didnt completely try to keep himself ...

Stop. >> how do you know he vocalized that to pompeo? >> because he was in the loop. >> they dont remember that the same. >> how do we know what pompeo remembers? he wont testify. >> he said they brought everybody in the loop and everybody few what was going on and johnson didnt agree with that. >> johnson is meaningless. of all the people in this process, no one ever said -- >> hes part of the security council. he went over and spoke to the president. he had the ear of the president. >> i know....

If i commit murder and all along im saying no homicide, no homicide, no homicide, it doesnt mean im exonerated. the perpetrator still committed it. to rely on what the president was saying to to gordon sondland and also the timing. september 9. when that communication is made to sondland, already word is on capitol hill of the whistle-blower. so of course theres added incentive to say the magic words. in the end, i think we are back where we began. sondland was an incredible witness. if at the o...

Rock. >> whats my name? >> asop rock. everyone was in the loop. >> chief of staff mulvaney. >> they know. >> giuliani. >> they know. >> vice president pence. >> again, everyone is in the loop. >> they know. >> i e-mailed secretary pompeo. >> they know. >> i saw. >> i spoke by phone with donald trump. >> the devil. >> was there a quid pro quo. >> sondland remix. its own grammy nom. finally, at new yorks madison square garden. >> he is going to be surprised by his father coming home from a year ...

Could help president trumps campaign and that president trump directed it. joining us now is political correspondent abby phillip and elie. yes, there was a quid pro quo, abby, he said it unequivocally. and, yes, everyone knew. everyone was in the loop. yes, it was directed by president trump. those were really the last outstanding questions. >> exactly. and he threw everyone under the bus, which seemed to say that i was not going rogue. this was not something that was irregular because everyone...

The evidence today is that there is no evidence to move republicans. what has been accumulated already and certainly today in the unequivocal testimony about there being quid pro quo and everyone being in the loop. i think one outcome is it is now essentially guaranteed f it wasnt already that the house will imepeapeach donald trump a its unclear whether any republicans will vote other than justin whos left the party on this overwhelming evidence. i think what this says is theyre withdrawing fro...

>> reporter: john, you could and see some of the gasps inside the hearing room when sondland testified. it was the highly-anticipated testimony so far. i spoke to lawmakers who said he delivered. it was a home run, directly linking trump to a quid pro quo. at the same time, trump and his allies, parsing sondlands testimony, finding phrases they believe clear the president. jo gordon sondland started with a blunt admission. was there a quid pro quo? the answer is yes. >> reporter: and the ambassa...

About the documentary evidence that impeachment investigators are trying to get. does it get the need to get these people greater and increase the likelihood that democrats want to try? >> absolutely. the most important line from gordon sondland was everyone was in the loop. and he had the documents to back it up. the e-mails he had for himself. the administration is holding on to the e-mails. >> and denying him the right to see his own correspondence. >> i think the democrats did a good job of ...