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Quote, big stuff, unquote, that benefits him, namely the biden investigation. and we have just learned from one top republican source that a number of gop lawmakers were more shaken by that testimony than they let on in public. we ll have more on that shortly. now, as for sondland the eu ambassador who somehow became one of the president s three lieutenants on ukraine, that s if you take out the million dollars he gave to the trump inaugural committee, he s going to testify on wednesday. as you already know he has already revised his testimony once in the face of contradicting accounts from nearly every other witness. the question now, will he alter his story once again? and tomorrow the committee hears from kurt volker the former special envoy to ukraine. like ambassador sondland pieces of volker s closed door testimony have also been contradicted by several key witnesses. so look for some tough questions on that. look also for the president to do what he s done to so many others who ....
Once. the question now will he alter his story once again? and tomorrow the committee hears from kurt volker the former special envoy to ukraine. like ambassador sondland pieces of volker s closed door testimony have also been contradicted by several key witnesses. so look for some tough questions on that. look also for the president to do what he s done to so many others who testified or said they would, namely bully them or just say he doesn t know them. we ll start with the latter. here s the president talking about gordon sondland whom he once called a great american. let mae just say i hardly know the gentleman. but this is the man who said there was no quid pro quo. and he still says that. actually sondland now says in his revised testimony that he, quote, presumed the aid suspension had, quote, become linked to the proposed anticorruption statement. i.e. a public declaration by the ukrainians that they were investigating the bidens. in any case shall the barely know him defe ....
Something that sondland did not reveal when he testified behind closed doors earlier. now, the transcript of morrison s closed door testimony was released over the weekend, and it says this. i want says, a question from adam schiff. sondland understood his responsibilities to be doing what the president asked him to do. morrison responded, he related to me he was acting, he was discussing these maerttters wit the president. schiff asked, and in fact, every time you went to check whether he had in fact talked to the president, you found that he had talk to the president? yes, sir. so he made sure he was discussing these matters with the president. sondland is probably the one witness who has talked to the president more than virtually anybody. so how much he reveals on wednesday remains to be seen. and we also learned on friday from an aide at state department, official, david holmes, that he overheard the president speaking with gordon sondland, in which they were talking about those i ....
not with the president! i don t know anybody i m sorry, but i don t know anybody who forgets speaking with the president of the united states. it s not a regular thing. they re not a frequent caller. so the fact that gordon sondland just happened to forget those conversations is highly unusual, kate. a, it s the president. b, this is a couple of months ago. this isn t something that happened in the distant past. that is a really good point. this isn t from even 2016 or 2017 or 2018. this was 2019. yeah. i ve done cases where you re asking witnesses about things that happened three, four monye ago. this is three, four months ago. and now look at pattern with sondland, who has been caught in a pattern of inconsistencies. they all break the same way. he forgets about things that would hurt the president. he omits th s this this restaur call that is really damaging to the president. he forgets initially that there was a quid pro quo, then he has to go back and supplement his ....
Responsibly protecting the health of children. at this time, we are in an ongoing rule making process. so, we ll see what happens. yeah, that s not what the president promised we should be clear, very publicly, two months ago. sanjay gupta, thanks very much. thanks to all of you for joining us. we ll see you back here, big hearings start tomorrow. i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto. at this hour with kate balduan starts right now. hello, everyone. i m kate balduan. thanks so much for joining me. sit tight, my friends, because we are now entering the second week of public impeachment hearings and an incredibly busy one at that. testimony is expected from eight witnesses over the next three days in front of the house intelligence committee. in front of cameras and in front of the american public. and while they may not be household names who will be sitting before congress, it is their relationship to the president, their contact with the president that everyone needs to pay ....