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This is the move. sondland updating his past congressional testimony and going, all of a sudden, i now recall the bribery plot. you're now looking at where things stand today. so dmr sondland movered over. on the left that's what you have. you have donald trump and mulvaney who told the country there was bribery only to retract and you have trump. on the right you have a lot of other kredsabcredible testimony. what do prosecutors do with case that has this kind of testimonial evidence? veteran prosecutor tells us when we're back in just 30 seconds. n we're back in just 30 seconds.

About this entire ukrainian gambit. once after the phone call on july 25th. but prior to that, after this meeting that fiona hill testifies about on july 10th, because in his view, these comments from gordon sondland were so deeply concerning. fiona hill testifies to that as well and says that bolton was so concerned about it that he immediately ended the meeting. she goes on to say, in a follow-on meeting on the same day, ambassador sondland again researched an agreement with chief of staff mulvaney for a meeting with the ukrainians if they were going to go forward with investigations and he ...

And ambassador sondland pushing and insisting there was no quid pro quo bribery. even the in private taylor objected. you had those two camps. bribery and no bribery and boom. the whistle-blower joins the bribery chorus filing a complaint about this plot. at that point those were the battle lines. some people involved said it was a bribery plot. other people involved denied it. that's a split case. back to our chart. enter trump aide mick mulvaney to admit the bribery plot saying famously saying quid pro quo bribery happens all the time. could that last with the number one stapffer stay in tha...

I'm joined now by the white house by white house reporter aisha roscoe and the former white house speech writer for george w. bush. good evening to both of you. >> good evening. >> david, let me start with you on the box that we saw some people publicly put themselves in if they want to defend trump but they previously said p obviously proof of a bribery plot would be bad. >> right. well, they started off with a stupid argument and partly maybe it was embarrassing. they retreated to a depraved argument. the stupid argument is not to see what's in front of you. the depraved argument is to justi...

>> now you're saying the president of the united states, the chief law enforcement person cannot ask somebody to cooperate with an ongoing public investigation into wrongdoing? that's just bizarre to me. >> are you saying that the money that was held up that that had nothing to do with the bidens? >> the money held up had absolutely nothing to do with biden. >> over the course of that appearance, he ultimately conceded and defended the bribery plot. get over it, then walked it back. with the benefit now of some time and you're in that same very room, how is that playing out for the white house...