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. right now lawmakers are gearing up to return to capitol hill and to their impeachment battle. and on wednesday, members of the house judiciary committee will get its turn to grill witnesses before a full house vote on impeachment. alex marquart has more. >> reporter: he has now until next friday to determine whether or not he will participate in the next round of impeachment proceedings. and that is in addition to a sunday deadline the white house was given to say if it will take part in judiciary's xhirs impeachme impeachment hearing set for wednesday. stephanie grisham shonded sayre sayi...

A very important point. in the witness chair for the televised hearing as well, the former ambassador to the ukraine who was fired earlier this year by president trump. she told investigators she was, quote, shocked and devastated. the president attacked her during his call with ukraine's president. alex marquart has more on the chilling effect on the firing effect across the board. >> our ukraine policy has been thrown into disarray. and shady interests, the world over, have learned how little it takes to remove an american ambassador who does not give them what they want. >> a blistering ope...

>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we're following breaking news on an extraordinary twist of the impeachment investigation. a top u.s. diplomat and trump ally changing his sworn testimony to congress and admitting to a ukraine quid pro quo. ambassador gordon sondland now confirms he told a ukrainian official that u.s. aid was tied to investigations president trump wanted including probes of joe biden and his son hunter biden, contradicting the president's quid pro quo denials. this hour, i'll talk to congressman gerry connolly, a democrat on two committees that heard sondland's testim...

Trump and president zelensky, wolf, in which president trump asked for a favor. >> "for a favor, though," that's correct. alex, thanks very much. let's talk more about why this crucial change in congressional testimony matters. sunlen serfaty joins us from capitol hill. how significant is this last minute change for the democrats? >> reporter: very significant, wolf, especially for the democrats, the fact that you have this three-page addendum just delivered up to capitol hill by sondland's attorney yesterday is certainly a huge acknowledgement. sondland originally said in his testimony that h...

His son in a july 10th meeting with ukrainian officials. but vindman and his then boss fiona hill both understood he was. vindman said hill even shutdown a meeting over it. witness after witness compounding the evidence that the president had linked aid for ukraine to investigations into his political opponents. cnn, new york. >> all right, alex, appreciate that. 13 democrats vying to run against the president making their cases at a big event in iowa tonight. hoping to super charge their campaign. you'll hear what they had to say next. mom, why do we always come here for the holidays? how did...