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>> all right, chuck, thanks very much we'll save your seat for tomorrow we'll be back with special coverage tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern with that highly anticipated testimony from ambassador gordon sondland meantime, there is breaking news in the death of accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein after he died by suicide in his jail cell today two guards were charged with making false records to cover up their failure to keep checking on him stephanie gosk has details. >> reporter: at a federal prison in manhattan, jeffrey epstein half hour. instead, prison cameras reveal the accused sex traf...

>> perhaps he was on these text messages, he does not remember that. let's go to the first one on august 9th. there's an exchange between ambassador volker and you where you are discussingu setting up- we'll try to bring it up in a second, but i'll summarize it for i you, you're discussing setting up a white house meeting -- here it is -- and you say, morrison ready to get dates as soon as g yermak confirms. ambassador volker says, excellent, howr did you sway h? you dsaid, not sure i did, i think potus really wants the deliverable. what did you mean there? >> the commitment to do the investig...

Democrats put you through this. you have served your country way and the kind of diplomat we want serving and here's -- here's one of the saddest things about what the democrats are putting us through, you two guys who are here telling it straight you both decided you will step out of government because of what these guys are doing and that's the sad thing. people like ambassador volker and tim morrison who have served our country so well are now stepping out of our government because of what these guys are doing and that's why mr. turner got so fired up and i am so fired up, too, because we a...

Giuliani requested anything of the ukrainians at that meeting? >> only when i spoke with mr. giuliani afterwards. he said that he thought ukraine should issue a statement. and then i spoke with mr. yermak after that and he said yes and we're prepared to make a statement. and that then kicked off the series of discussions that i said in my testimony. >> we'll get into that in a second. but mr. giuliani did not explain to you what needed to be included in that statement, in that call you had? >> he said something more general, as i recall. i recall him saying fight corruption, that their commitm...

Saddest things what the democrats are putting us through, you two guys who are here telling it straight, you both decided to step out of the government because of what these guys are doing and that is the sad thing. they are now stepping out of our government because of what these guys are doing and that is why mr. turner got so fired up and why i am so fired up because we appreciate what you guys did. i yield back. >> ambassador volker, i want to focus on the press statement that president trump and rudy giuliani wanted to make announcing the investigations to benefit president trump. on augu...