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Its republican allies. kurt volker made a number of important changes to his original testimony. he now says the demand to investigate the bidens was inappropriate. cnn's suzanne malveaux is live outside the hearing room this morning. the focus will be on what is now called the gordon problem. >> that's right, john. and i asked a democratic aide involved in the impeachment inquiry about the so-called gordon problem, and she said it is unclear whose problem it is going to be because he can be helpful or hurtful to both sides. the pressure is on for gordon sondland as impeachment investigators o...

The president say this is the one witness who he worries about the most. >> yesterday tim morrison said people refer to it as the dpornd problem another first there was a bit of a smirk before he went there, so we'll show you all of that. meanwhile former special envoy kurt volker on tuesday made important changes to his original testimony. volker now says the demand to investigate the bidens was, quote, inappropriate, and former president joe biden did nothing wrong. he said a lot of the blame lies with gordon sondland and rudy giuliani. >> the gordon problem? >> the gordon problem. three oth...

The gordon problem. and i decided to keep track of what ambassador sondland was doing. i didn't necessarily always act on things gordon suggested he believed were important. >> so that was a senior nsc official casting doubt ahead of tomorrow morning's testimony from eu ambassador gordon sondland. mr. morrison and ambassador volker both testified they had serious concerns about this mr. sondland. politico reports, quote, volker and morrison stood out in particular for their dismissive tone toward the ambassador who republicans will try to paint as a political crony who only wanted to curry fav...

President yermak had this discussion, yes. what did ambassador sondland say to you that he told mr. yermak? >> that the ukrainians would have to have the prosecutor general make a statement with respect to the investigations as a condition of having the aid lifted. >> among the discussions i had with dr. hill were about ambassador sondland. i think she might have coined it the gordon problem. and i decided to keep track of what ambassador sondland was doing, i didn't necessarily always act on things gordon suggested he believes were important. >> so, sondland will also face questions over the ...

With rudy giuliani if it could be helpful to you to get that message and advice to the president, would that be correct? >> i believe that the messages being conveyed by mr. giuliani were a problem because they were at variance with our official message to the president was and not conveying that positive assessment we all had. so i thought it was important to try to step in and fix the problem. >> and in that i think you turned out a useful barometer of where things were. >> yes. >> so those useful barometers i think can come in a lot of different fashions. if they can help the cause. and in ...