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Attorney john duren. appointed by attorney general william barr in may, the investigation now has global reach with durum recently traveling to britain and italy to pursue surveillance leads as well as working with australian authorities. the investigation also adding more agents, more resources for an expanded timeline which now stretches from the spring of 2016 to may 2017 when the president fired fbi director james comey and then deputy attorney general rod rosenstein appointed special counse...

With a political campaign." but sondland stood up for trump, responding, "the president has been crystal clear -- no quid pro quos of any kind," but then added, "i suggest we stop the back and forth by text." in a statement, sondlands lawyer says he is "profoundly disappointed that he will not be able to testify today," noting the ambassador had agreed to appear voluntarily and had already traveled from brussels >> mr. secretary, why did you instruct ambassador sondland not to testify? >> thanks...

We cant count on the white house, we cant count on the court. they want to delay this. we need to move forward. we need to look at what evidence we have, make the best effort, make the case, and have a vote on the articles of impeachment. >> whats the play here, you think, matt? should they go ahead and actually hold a vote, have a vote on impeachment, knowing that the white house is going to stall this, and as you were saying, this could delay into 2020. go ahead and have the vote, get the proc...

Worry about the consequences for coming forward when they see wrongdoing like that. >> ambassador, you wrote an op ed last week about the situation with ukraine, and you basically said, whether or not the president gets impeached is a sideline. we need to do -- our government needs to do a better job defending our own institutions and the people who work with them. as i say, you were writing about ukraine, but do you see the same parallels or similarities with the situation now with the kurds? >...

Time of mr. trumps july 25th call. as i said on the phone, i think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a politic campaign. sondland replied, bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. before sondland sent that response, he called the president. cnn has learned white house and national security officials scrambled to contain the fallout ...

Cnn has learned white house and security officials scrambled to contain the fall out including moving the rough transcript to a more secure system. fellow republicans see no wrong doing. >> the president is doing his job. the president -- when youre talking about the hard earn tax dollars of the american people going to a foreign government, the presidents going to make sure theres no corruption there. >> reporter: still a new washington post poll found 58% agree that the impeachment inquiry sho...

Sondland and you were not able the hear from him because the white house directed the state department to block him from testifying. you found out at the last minute. can you move forward without some of that contextual information that obviously someone like sondland or maybe the former ukraine ambassador that youre supposed to hear from but maybe you wont, without them talking to you about it. >> we have the admission from the defendant. that is donald. hes admitted the wrong doing. its on tel...

Its important to remember, the whistleblower is important because that individual reveals sort of help catch the president. we should understand the president admitted his wrong doing. its confirmed by the transcript of the call released by the white house. obviously corroborated by the whistleblower report. the president has already nitted admitted that he attempted to persuade a foreign government to a foreign leader to interfere in the american presidential election that is illegal. its unpat...

Additional evidence that further corroborates the wrong doing. we have more than enough to demonstrate the president has engaged in serious misconduct. >> lets talk about what happens tomorrow. the million dollar trump donor and ambassador to the eu. will testify. this is some of his text exchanges. its important to look at these that took place just over a week apart. september 1. are you saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on the investigations. gordon says ...

Evidence of the serious wrong doing of the president the committees are cleking additional evidence that further corroborates the wrong doing. we have more than enough to demonstrate the president has engaged in serious misconduct. >> lets talk about what happens tomorrow. the million dollar trump donor and ambassador to the eu. will testify. this is some of his text exchanges. its important to look at these that took place just over a week apart. september 1. are you saying that security assist...