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What was just testified to. >> and it's a little odd, it's theater that the key witness namely ambassador sondland is not on tap yet. so we are hearing all these conversations and testimony about what he said, what he meant. well, you would say, as a judge in a trial, excuse me, this is all hearsay, bring on ambassador sondland. >> bret: not only that now we have this new element which chris referenced earlier which is the phone call that is supposedly between sondland and president trump where a a cell . so now we are triple bank shot to the president in this particular testimony and we will ...

Me. and then what you have in front of you is an addendum that mr. sondland made to his testimony that we got a couple weeks ago. says declaration of ambassador gond sondland. >> i do hereby swear and affirm as follows. i wanted you to look at bullet point number two second sentence. ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told that i told mr. morrison that i conveyed in conversation to from yermak september 19th, 2019 in qu x no vice president's visit to warsaw and a meeting with zelensky. this is his clarification. let me read it one more time. ambassador taylor tolls ambassador taylor t...

We do know what gordon sondland said. he did testify that he told the ukrainians that aid was held up because of this ask for investigations, until that happened. although in his addendum, he said he didn't recall exactly how he knew that. republicans will try to make the case there's no linkage to the president. we'll see if they're able to succeed. >> and americans will have to decide if they believe that all of this happened without the president's knowledge and independent of him. thank you very much. joining us now, carl bernstein, author and legendary watergate journalist. and the author...

Witness after witness with the exception of ambassador sondland is clear proof that not just did the president ask for specific action by the president of ukraine on the call that we have the transcript of -- not a transcript but a memorandum. but what we are finding with this testimony is that there is an extensive set-up and cover-up that took place before that call and after that call. >> i want to point out in fairness to ambassador sondland, he did revise or refresh his testimony under oath and he came around to the conclusion, yes, for all practical purposes, there was that so-called qui...

>> reporter: the campaign to remove a use ambassador disturbed many others at the state department as well, including michael mckinley, a former senior adviser to secretary of state mike pompeo who went to his boss three times, according to his testimony, urging pompeo to release a statement in support of yovanovitch, which pompeo has publicly denied. >> it's deeply troubling when the secretary of state is lying to the american public about anything and most certainly when he's lying about any step to protect a member of his staff. >> reporter: perhaps the most stunning development of the week...