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What's been released is a summary of the phone call. house republicans tried to refocus the morning session by pressing vindman on his conversations that followed the call with a line of questioning the committee chairman quickly shut down. >> lieutenant colonel vindman, did you discuss the july 25th phone call with anyone outside the white house on july 25th or the 26th, and if so, with whom? >> i spoke to two individuals with regards to providing a -- some sort of readout of the call, not in the white house, cleared u.s. government officials with appropriate need to know. >> and what agencie...

That's a heartbreaking moment for us all. >> jeremy bash, i don't know if mr. sondland ever played competitive sports or yearned someday to be getting the heisman. he might be getting the heisman late in his career. the distancing started to begin today in the hearing. in your view, he already had a lot of explaining to do starting tomorrow morning. did his job get tougher steal today? >> i think so because multiple witnesses have now come forward and said they heard him say explicitly that ukraine would not get the aid unless they conducted the investigations of the bidens. that was the testi...

That? >> i believe it was three times. >> and do you have any reason why he asked you to do that? >> i don't know, but every single time i dismissed it. upon returning, i notified my chain of command and the appropriate counterintelligence folks about the offer. >> multiple right-wing conspiracy theorists, including rudy giuliani, have accused you of harboring loyalty towards ukraine. they've accused you of espionage and dual loyalties. we've seen that in this room this morning. the three minutes that were spent asking you about the offer made to make you the minister of defense, that may have...

For misinformation. the president's personal lawyer and his influence on trump's thinking on ukraine was also discussed. here's what ambassador volker said trump told him. >> he said that ukraine was a corrupt country full of terrible people. he said they tried to take me down. president trump had a deeply rooted negative view on ukraine rooted in the past. he was receiving other information from other sources, including mayor giuliani, that was more negative, causing him to retain this negative view. >> the day began with testimony from those two other white house officials, jennifer williams...

It to the legal counsel of the nsc. correct action and further corroboration of the underlying facts. >> i want to read some of vindman's opening statement. he is recounting a conversation that he had with ambassador sondland following that july 10th meeting with ukrainian officials that included bolton, sondland and rick perry. sbafrd sonde land emphasized -- 2016 election,ed bidens and burisma. i sta id to ambassador sondland that his statements were inappropriate, that the request to investigate biden and his son had nothing to do with national security and that such investigations were not...