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This influence campaign as a means of ukrainians dig up or manufacture damaging information about the bidens. this notion that rudy giuliani was freelancing it according to sondland was not the case at all. a lot of this testimony was self-absolving. one of the things that sondland says is he was disappointed by president trump's direction for him to work with giuliani, but that he thought it was the only way. sondland thought working with giuliani was the only way to change president trump's mind. this echoes what house investigators have heard from current and former state department officia...

To be self-absolving. you seasoned land in his testimony pointing the finger at energy secretary rick perry and pointing the finger at the former special envoy kurt volker. the three of them were dubbed the three amigos. the takeaway is that gordon sondland plants this entire ukrainian gambit entirely at president trump's feet. he says rudy giuliani was working to support the stated goals of president trump. this backs up the testimony that house investigators have heard and that we've reported on, as democrats are trying to build the case, what led up to and what came after that now-infamous ...

Absolving the president of obstruction of justice upon receiving the report that did not ab solve the president of obstruction of justice and keeping it under wraps for weeks while he described the contents in a way that did not reflect the real content. for weeks he selectively quoted it to paint a picture as an exoneration of the president, which was not what it was. he has been launching the kinds of investigations that trump wanted for so long. the kind premised on the idea that the investigators and the investigators are the real bad guys. why should that have been looked into in the firs...

>> he's a fine man. the job he's done is incredible. he loves the department of justice. he saw what was happening. he has done a spectacular job. now he's in the process of doing something and i stay away from it. i stay away from it. but i think he feels that what's happened in this country was a bad thing and bad for our country. >> he saw what was happening and feels it was a bad thing for our country and he's in the process of doing something about it. what was the thing happening in the justice department? if president trump's two qualifications are one, protect the president and go afte...

Warmbier at the c-pac. >> he was a special young man and to see what happened was so bad. it was so bad. and a lot of what i do with respect to north korea and any success that we hopefully have -- and we've had a lot. we're given no credit. >> so john, what do you make of this idea that to negotiate with kim you can't say anything negative about him even if it means absolving him of responsibility on something like this. so this kind of reminds us of trump's dealings with saudi arabia crown prince where the president refused to say he had anything to do with the murder of jamal khashoggi. do ...