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With donald trump and holding up military aid until investigations were announced into burisma and the bidens in 2016. >> yeah. it was really interesting to listen to fiona hill yesterday talk about that, how she reading the previous testimony hearing the previous testimony came to understand that it wasnt, as you say, a rogue op. it wasnt sort of an outside channel. this was what was going on, this was ordered by the president obviously he had some involvement in it. the problem of course for t...

>> this to you was the only logical conclusion that you could reach? >> correct. >> sort of like two plus two equals four. >> exactly. >> so david holmes also recounted the july 26th cell phone call he overheard between president trump and eu ambassador gordon sondland at a restaurant in kyiv. >> you heard president trump ask ambassador sonland, is he going to do the investigation. >> yes, sir. >> what was ambassador sondlands response? >> he said oh, yes, hes going to do it, hell do anything yo...

He dangled a different one a face to face with president trump. >> president trump ever never told me directly that the aid was conditioned on the meetings. the only thing we got directly from giuliani was that the burisma and 2016 elections were conditioned on the white house meeting. the aid was my own personal guess based again on your analysis, two plus two equals four. >> president trump himself trying to spin the damming impeachments testimony that tied him to the pressure campaign. he cla...

Investigations. he dangled that carat from a different one. a possible face to face between president trump and president zelensky. a meeting ukraine very much wanted. >> president trump never told me directly the aid was conditions on the mootings. the only thing we got was that 2016 election were condition on the white house meeting. the aid was my own personal guess based on your analogy of two plus two equals four. >> and he claims that sondlands testimony vindicates him. >> you ask me what ...

And it was withheld over the objection of every single agency that was involved in it, the national security council, the department of defense and the state department all wanted him to go ahead and directly instructed that it was being withheld under orders of mick mulvaney from the president for reasons that were never revealed. two plus two equals four, erica. he did it. he withheld the aid in an attempt to shake down the ukrainian president to undertake this politically motivated investigat...

Democrats asking questions in the probe. washington state congressman denney beck. >> congressman, certainly an important moment today for democrats when we heard ambassador sondland say, yes, there was a quid pro quo. however, when he was pressed he also made clear, and i want to play a moment here, that it was not from the president who told him directly about that. lets listen to this. >> president trump never told me directly that the aid was conditioned on the meetings. the only thing we go...

Drink, fidgeting in his seat but generally jolly. has anyone ever looked happier to testify in an impeachment hearing than gordon sondland? one body language expert said he was signaling his emotional relief. sfl the president tweeted that you are a really good man and a great american. one month later he said, let me just tell you. i hardly know the gentleman. >> easy come, easy go. >> reporter: it didnt look easy for devin nunes when the committee took a break. so did his face. someone put it ...

And we hadnt been able to get that meeting. and then the security hold came up, with no explanation. and i would be surprised if any of the ukrainians we discussed earli earlier solicited people for when they received no explanation for why that hold was in place, they would have draw that conclusion. >> because the investigations were still being pursued and the hold was remaining without explanation? >> correct. >> this, to you, was the only logical conclusion you could reach? >> correct. >> s...

And saying his presumptions, they kept out the word presumption when they went to the microphone at the break which they planned that break earlier by the way. he kept talking about this. well, its a quid pro quo because he presumed it. if the cups and, well, two plus two equals four and i brought out to presumptions, plus two presumptions doesnt even add out to one fact. of the fact is, yet the conversation with the president and he said i want nothing, nope, no quid pro quo, if you saw it, mr....

If the meeting happens again. >> never dated. >> you know who is in the meeting? >> which meeting -- >> the meeting that never happened, who was in a question m [laughter] you know how he do a press conference, how he released a question mark do you know how that happen? you got all three of them wrong? they get the call, they get the meeting, they get them on? its not two plus two, it 0 for 3. i mean, ive never seen anything like that. >> sean: america, what are we doing here what the ukrainian...