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Was investigation of the bidens and democrats. sondland is in trouble here. he said i knew there was talk about the prosecutor. but i didn't know it had anything to do with the bidens. that was doubtful. this testimony blows that out of the water. >> in the debriefing vindman says sondland emphasized the importance of ukraine investigating bidens. and told him it was inappropriate. why is that so important? >> yeah. so i think it's consistency aspect. vindland talks about outside influencers. the giuliani and pushing the bidens. taylor talks about an irregular diplomat lane. you can call it ou...

>> isn't that what you do to people under mine the credibility of a witness? it's hard to do with this. >> it's what people do when they're desperate and know the evidence is mounting. >> "new york times" reports bolton drafted a memo in august that sought to restart the $391 million and the aid package. trump refused to sign it. according to documents reviewed be by the time. could we learn from vindman how the decision to with hold money was made? >> it sounds like he would have that information. also the importance of john bolton as a witness. clearly he knew this was going to be a big issu...

Thank you so much. more bomb shell testimony expected tomorrow by the national security counselor this time expert ukraine expert. he's the opening statement. i was concerned by the call i did not think it was proper to demand a foreign government ngt a u.s. citizen. and i was worried about the implication for the u.s. government support of ukraine. president trump argues that this phone call was perfect. vindman who listened disagrees. >> devastating testimony. and over laps with what we have seen from so many other witnesses. i'm starting to look at this like the way i would a witness list. ...

Ambassador sondland, energy secretary and national security adviser bolton. the meeting proceeded well until the ukrainians approached the subject of a meeting between two presidents. that saw the meeting important in order to solidify the suppor of the most important international partner. sondland started to speak about ukraine delivering specific investigations in order to secure the meeting with the president. at which time ambassador bolton cut the meeting short. >> quid pro quo. >> yeah. it is. it's two themes we have seen repeated. number one, the only thing trump wanted and the group s...

Twitter there they'll attack vindman because there's no bottom. and he was attacked as a double agent. >> vindman says in opening statement he's not the whistleblower. that's zusuggests how many peop were alarmed. it wasn't just the whistleblower. there were more people. >> this awareness that this administration was admitting crimes and covering them up. this whole idea that it was a perfect call, that nobody indicated to trump otherwise. that nothing was wrong. it's bogus. clearly there were people in the room, people on the call who were aware of the great inappropriateness of what was goin...