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Sondland's addendum that he released yesterday, that the president told ambassador sondland there's no quid pro quo, but zelensky has to investigate the bidens. and so the president can say there's no quid pro quo, but if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck. you can say it's not a duck, but it looks a lot like extortion. >> the first two witnesses that you plan to call next week, george kent and bill taylor who is the top diplomat in ukraine and we've seen the transcript of his testimony as you referenced, you know, he does say directly he didn't have a conversation with president t...

To testify publicly? >> that remains to be seen. but with his new addendum to his testimony it is pretty compelling because with his new addendum he explicitly said there was a quid pro quo between the trump administration and the ukrainians. call it extortion or bribery, it is all the same thing when the president used his powers to freeze military aid, to dangle a critical meeting between the white house and the ukrainian leader in exchange for launching two bogus investigations. >> sondland did admit in the addendum the meeting would only come in exchange for investigations, although he doe...

Reversal than what he said in early october. he said sondland was a great american, was highly respected. so now that sondland has provided this addendum to his testimony, trump said he hardly knows the gentleman. >> on capitol hill where republicans are landing right now, there is no linkage between a quid pro quo directly to the president getting past the reasons that they were asking ukraine to investigate. i'm not hearing so much on capitol hill any more about the conspiracy theories regarding ukraine and the 2016 election as well as joe bidesen. the president going directly back to this c...

Consistent. and interestingly, according to "the washington post" reporting, including by rachel bade who, of course, is a colleague of sorts here at cnn, behind closed doors in the senate, last wednesday, republicans got together and among others, it was ted cruz who is no shrinking violet and not a dummy who said, wait a minute, if his motive was one of protecting american taxpayers and tax dollars and not his own re-election, then there's no harm, no foul here. so i think they get it. frankly, i think a lot of people get it. but whether the president can resist saying no quid pro quo remain...

Totally changed his life after his brother's presidency. >> the last chapter of his life was his proudest. i talked to president jimmy carter and his widow cybill and their six kids and they describe a man that was funny, smarkt, hard working and in the last years of his life he went around the country talking to people, a lot of blue collar people that could relate to him who were struggling with alcoholism. look, he was in his late 30s with six kids when the international press descended on the tiny town of plains, georgia. i couldn't have handled that. and he wasn't able to run his business...