former officials to testify this two minutes. he is the ambassador to the week. european union and the testimony one is eu ambassador sondland. was blocked by the white house last week. according to "the washington post" he is going to testify according to "the washington post" though sondland is expected to tell congress that that this key text message the president told him there was exchange was directly dictated no quid pro quo in regards to to him from president trump and that sondland is going to say he ukraine and also expected to doesn't know if the president testify that he didn't know if was telling him the truth or the president was telling him not. what do you do with that, the truth. congressman? what does that mean to the or not. cnn's senior congressional investigation? >> i think what it means is a correspondent manu raju on lot of information is being gathered that will clearly capitol hill following this. what are you hearing about implicate president trump putting together an extortion what's expected lawmakers want racket to try to extort, to to hear from fiona hill and everything playing out this strong-arm, to bully the new week? >> reporter: fiona hill was ukraine president into doing the served a subpoena from democrats president's bidding. that is, to try to dig up dirt demanding to know what happened in the run-up to the july phone on the 2016 election. call of president trump and the what was that -- what was ukrainian president zelensky. president zelensky to do when what democrats are trying to do the president of the united states, the most powerful man in is look at what happened in the the world, says i'd like you to run-up to the call, during the call and what happened in the efforts to allegedly cover it do a favor, though. well, here we go. up. she has since left the we'll get that information. administration in august and all of these depositions are to some of the aftermath she may gather the