Not. But we start with breaking news and a new investigation for President Trump. The house now wants to know if the president lied when he provided written testimony to special counsel Robert Muellers team. We have pamela brown with us. Shes here with her reporting. And Elliott Williams has the legal angle on this. Pamela, some people would say, what . Robert miller is so this summer. Whats going on, whats this about and why now . There was a court filing from the democrats house lawyer telling the judge that basically, look, we really need to see this grand jury information that was given to Robert Mueller, because there is growing concern that the president lied in his written answers to muellers investigators. And they point to information that has come out during the roger stone testimony, who we know efhe was just recently convicted and an associate of trump. As you know, rick gates had testified the president had just gotten off the phone with roger stone and told him more information would be coming. He also said that paul manafort, the campaign chairman, had been briefing the president about efforts to get the wikileaks emails. What is interesting about that is in light of what the president said in his written answers to mueller, as youll recall, which is a key word in his written answers. He said it, i think, more than two dozen times. In this one he says, i do not recall that anybody in the campaign, robert mule or anyone in the campaign, had discussion with any of the entities naming the discussion regarding the content or release of hacked emails. So democrats are now seizing on this and saying, look, we have reason to believe the president wasnt telling the truth here. What this does is add new urgency to the democrats argument that the president may have lied. Its an argument theyre making for a while and theyre now filing it in court. They want to see this grand jury testimony, obviously, that theyre not privy to at this point in time. Are they going to get this grand jury testimony from the Mueller Investigation . They should, and there is a big reason why. The lower court that first addressed this question was really looking at the question of whether impeachment is a, quote, legitimate legal proceeding that would allow well, it is, under the eyes of the law that would allow the transfer of grand jury materials. If they have grand jury material and you as a reporter ask for them, youre not allowed to see them, theyre secret. They can only be shared with another active judicial proceeding. So the court found recently, about a couple weeks ago, that it was. That its legitimate. Thats counter to what the white house thinks. You dont have to believe the president ought to be impeached, you dont have to agree legally that he should be removed. But the question is, is the proceeding itself a relatively legal one, and thats in the eyes of the law. The whole United States versus nixon hinged president Richard Nixon on the question of whether the proceedings were legitimate. I want to say the attorney jay sekulow said, read the answers to the questioned, they speak for themselves. The president said he did not lie. But its interesting the scrutiny in his answers to mueller in light of the president saying today, yeah, maybe i will take up nancy pelosi on her offer to provide testimony to impeachment investigators. Hard to believe he would do that. All right, you guys, stand by for me. Now to the impeachment inquiry and a deep bench of witnesses ready to take the stand this week. There are eight in all. Tomorrow youll see four testify. Jennifer williams is Senior Adviser to Vice President mike pence. Lieutenant colonel michael vindman, hes a director on the National Security council. And kurt volker is the special envoy for ukraine, and tim morris morrison, the National Security council top adviser on russia and europe. Morrison testified that he was told by Ambassador Gordon Sondland that the military aid from the u. S. To ukraine was directly tied to ukraine announcing an investigation into the biden family. Williams, vindman and morrison were all on that phone call that President Trump had with ukranian president zelensky. Wednesday well be hearing from sondland, from ambassador sondland. He has a bhowhole lot to answer for. Because out of this group, hes the only one that had direct contact with President Trump on ukraine, and also very importantly, those investigations that the president wanted. Sondland previously indicated that there was, indeed, a quid pro quo after he revised his earlier deposition before House Democrats and republicans. Also on wednesday, well be seei seeing laura cooper, the Deputy Assistant of defense. And on thursday, fiona hill, President Trumps former top russia adviser. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. All right, we have some breaking news right now. The Supreme Court is blocking the release this week of the president s taxes to a house committee. The president s attorneys asked the court to step in ahead of a wednesday deadline. There is an Accounting Firm that was used by President Trump that had been ordered to turn over these financial records. I want to bring in Jessica Schneider to talk about this. This is very fresh, this is just in. Tell us what this decision means. Tell us, did the house fight the temporary order . Reporter so this is just in from the Supreme Court, and this is something we had been expecting, brianna. Because under the lower courts decision, they wanted these documents, these financial records, released by wednesday. But, of course, President Trumps lawyer stepped in here saying, hey, Supreme Court, were appealing to you to put a hold on these documents, these financial records, being released as of this wednesday deadline. So thats what the Supreme Court has done here. Theyve stepped in and said, no, you will not be getting these financial records by wednesday. Were going to put that deadline essentially on hold while this sort of plays out and the supreme coukorcourt decides wher not to hear the broader issues in this case. We pretty much knew that could potentially happen here, because President Trumps lawyers went to the Supreme Court asking the Supreme Court to step in. What weve just learned is that the Supreme Court has, in fact, stepped in. These financial records will not be released. The house does have to respond to this, this effort to block this subpoena. That will be to the Supreme Court and that needs to be submitted by thursday at 3 00 p. M. So, really, this is an ongoing process here in this battle by House Democrats to get the president s financial records. They thought maybe there was a slim chance they might get them by wednesday because of an Appellate Court order, but now the Supreme Court saying it will not happen by wednesday. We need to continue to evaluate how this case will proceed and potentially get to the merits of this case. So we wont see anything this week, brianna. Jaessica schneider, thank yo so much for that report. I want to bring in dana bash to discuss this. I suppose this isnt particularly surprising, dana, just because once these records are out, you cant put them back in, right . No, you cant. So there has to be a final decision, and until then, these tax returns arent going to be out there. I think the key is its not a no, its a not yet. The president , who has fought tooth and nail releasing these tax returns, that we should remind people the tradition is for president ial candidates to always release their tax returns since Richard Nixon. He might win at the Supreme Court, he might not win at the Supreme Court. The fact that the court wants to take time, maybe as you said, is kind of pro forma. Its the president of the United States. This is unprecedented in every way. But the fact theyre not saying, were not even going to hear this, were not going to deal with this, is also significant. Even though there is a Public Interest in seeing the tax returns, again, regardless of where you are on the president. Like you said, the president has an issue releasing president ial tax returns. Parties have rights, and thats not to be irreparably harmed by the release of a document theyre still trying to protect. So i think, yes, its not uncommon to stay the release of them, but not yet, dana. Why are they fighting so hard for them not to be out there . Its interesting, because this isnt the only case surrounding his tax returns, right . There is also the case of prosecutors who want to see their tax returns for their investigation. Thats something that went to the Supreme Court. Well see if they make a landmark decision on that. But the president has made broad arguments that he should not have to turn over his tax returns, that he is immune, so it would be a significant landmark decision, potentially, on separation of powers. Its not just immune from criminal prosecution, its immune to the critical process. They made an argument that you cannot even ask the president questions even if youre not committing a krichl. Could he plead the fifth . Could he refuse to answer . A key witness has some work to do. Is the white house telling the truth about an unannounced hospital visit . Chevy earned more j. D. 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Ambassador Gordon Sondland will testify wednesday in the impeachment inquiry hearing. He said he was being e mailed up to date for investigations by ukraine into the 2016 election and into the biden family. The journal reports those went to mick mulvaney, chief of staff, and rick perry. Kylie, tell us about this. What more do we know about this information between sondland and perry and mulvaney . Mulvaney, being the president s acting chief of staff, and secretary perry, the secretary of energy, they arent going to provide any testimony atz part of this house impeachment inquiry. Thats why its so important that Gordon Sondland, the u. S. Ambassador to the eu, who has been involved knees discussiin discussions is heading up the impeachment inquiry this week. One of the things to realize is the wall street journal reporting is very important. It said that the ambassador was keeping mulvaney and perry apprised of this effort to push for negotiations by the ukranians leading up to that july 25th phone call. But during his testimony, his closed door testimony, ambassador sondland tried to distance himself from the contents of that july 25th phone call. I want to read you something that he said during his closed door testimony. He said, quote, none of the brief and general call summaries i received contained any mention of burisma or former Vice President biden, noreen suggested that President Trump had made any kind of request of president zelensky. I heard afterwards that the july 25th, 2019, call went well in solidifying a relationship between the two leaders. Therefore, hes really trying to say that he had nothing to do with any contents of that phone call. That is a disparate with what we are learning now from the wall street journal. So another quote from what he told lawmakers behind closed doors is he said, quote, let me state clearly, inviting a Foreign Government to undertake investigations for the purpose of influencing an upcoming u. S. Election would be wrong. So lawmakers are definitely going to want to ask ambassador sondland about that. But the bottom line here is that we have heard from a number of other u. S. Officials as part of this impeachment inquiry. What they keep saying is that ambassador sondland had a direct line to President Trump. And tim morrison, who is the senior russia director at the National Security council, he said this in his testimony before lawmakers. He said, he related to me, he being Ambassador Gordon Sondland, that he was discussing these matters with the president. Therefore, he was told by sondland that he was calling up President Trump to discuss these investigations. We heard a similar thing from fiona hill. She was also a Senior Adviser to President Trump on russia. She actually got into a little bit of a tiff with Gordon Sondland, because she said to him at one point, youre not in charge of ukraine, him being the ambassador to the eu. And the response that she got was, quote, he related to me im sorry, he said fiona hill said to back to him, who has said youre in charge of ukraine, gordon . And he said, the president. Well, that shut me up because you cant really argue with that. A number of officials here, brianna, repeatedly saying that Gordon Sondland told them he was in charge of this policy. Its really important to note that there have been discrepancies in what those folks have told lawmakers and what Gordon Sondland is. There are questions about the authenticity of what he has told. So there are going to be a number of questions, and, of course, he could plead the fifth if he wants to. Brianna . He could. Kylie, thank you so much for breaking all that down for us. Very instructive as we bring in our chief political correspondent, dana bash, back with us and elliot williams. I just loved that being laid out, because you see witness, witness, witness, making it very clear, and it was known among all of them that sondland was basically spearheading this request, or was such an integral part of asking ukraine, were laying this out that the president wants these investigations. Were going to see a lot of testimony, a lot of names that will be suddenly familiar to people who are glued to this impeachment process. But none is more important, as far as we know now, is as important as Gordon Sondland. Because he is the lynch pin. Hes the guy who talked to the president. Hes the guy who, according to what kylie was just reporting, reported back on the investigations he was trying to get, allegedly, in exchange for a white house meeting and, more importantly, the military aid from the United States. And the fact that he was reporting back, apparently, to mick mulvaney, the president s chief of staff, to the almost former energy secretary, rick perry, it is so significant. There is a very widely played parlor game right now in washington, though. The question is whether or not sondland is actually going to show up, because hes literally going to be dancing on the head of a pin in that hearing room. You can see why, right . Because since he was deposed behind closed doors, we have learned from other witnesses here that he had spoken on the phone with the president and that there were three state department aides, or three aides w