he then explains, and i quote, i now do recall a conversation on september 1st, 2019, in warsaw with a top advisor to the ukrainian president. i said that resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement we had been discussing for many weeks. gordon sondland delivered the quid pro quo. he testified to it in sworn testimony and put a stake in this heretofore unkillable question of whether there was a quid pro quo. the final one, i would hope. there was a quid pro quo. but that is not all we learned. we now know even more about this just bizarre world we live in in which rudy giuliani as the president's private attorney, no actual official u.s. title, is wielding the full power of the u.s. state. sondland describes a may oval office meeting where president trump expressed concern about ukraine. quote, he just kept saying talk to rudy, talk to rudy. sondland said trump was not