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Vindman, experts have called him something of an unimpeachable witness in this impeachment probe or today's news, this new full transcript from bill taylor and trump aide tim morrison. that's five officials confirming the bribery plot. show me the proof, consider it shown say the democrats. now, what about some of trump's most influential media defenders. they have a different issue. they've already boxed themselves, some of them into denying bribery because before trump made his defense clear, they went on record saying that if there was this evidence of a bribery plot like conditioning money...

Want to read you exactly what happened behind closed doors. he asks are you aware that quid pro quo literal lirr means this for that. and taylor says i am. these exchanges are part of what rocked washington when these first occurred. we didn't have the transcript on that day, just video of lawmakers walking out gasping and saying things like this. >> in my ten short months in congress, it's not even noon, right, and this is my most disturbing day in congress so far. very troubling. >> very troubling. now we're reading the lines, the exact exchanges that so moved them. and there's one other key...

Something that as we reported at the time was contradicted by other insiders. democrats pressing sondland on potential perjury for those very claims. perjury to congress is no joke. today roger stone is starting his own criminal trial for the same thing, for lying to congress. so how does a diplomat change his story under these conditions? by suddenly remembering and recalling things. in this new testimony out for the first time today, sondland says some version of i now recall eight different times, in order to change the story about the core of this impeachment case. saying he now recalls br...

Trump's point person confirming the way trump sought this bribe. he wanted something from ukraine, the biden probe. he wasn't giving them that u.s. aid unless they bribed trump with the fro-- they wanted this whole investigative storm they were tookicooking up to hit joen and box him in. sondland now telling congress trump, quote, he wanted it public. okay. two more simple things. when asked what he thought about asking ukraine to investigate the bidens, this whole bribery plot that sondland was working on, he now testifies he thought it was, quote, improper and he assumed it was illegal. that...

Probe by someone who as of tonight still works for president trump. i turn now to former federal prosecutor joyce vance and john flannery as well as emily bazlan from "the new york times" magazine. john, this sounds like very damning testimony -- >> yes. >> -- from maybe one of the worst people with the closest hands and action on the bribery plot for the trump white house. >> right, it does. it's an important piece of corroboration for the others that seem to come forward unblemished and talk in full voice about what happened. i have the feeling from this that reading his statement that he's ...