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Indicate, it says, indicate portions of a conversation that the note taker was unable to hear. do either of you know where the full transcript is in a classified server that can be accessed only by the highest of authorities in so far as classification of their ability? do any of you know why this thing is in a server? this classified server. >> no, i cannot give you the full explanation of that. >> mr. collins? >> mr. morrison testified it was administrative error. >> administrative error? >> that's his testimony, not mine. >> who is that? >> the gentleman that testified in committee.

People in the state department wondered where the ambassador was so engaged with issues with the ukraine. ukraine aspires to join the eu. there are other reasons and mr. turner explored this really well at the open hearing. we asked ambassador sonland. he did a tv interview in kiev on the 26th of july is. he said the president gave he a lot of assignments and assigned me ukraine. but when we asked him in his deposition, he conceded that he was in fact spinning. that the president never assigned him to ukraine. he was exaggerating. >> i think at the public hearings you pointed out in contrast t...

Not gordon sondland is actually confused about this call. if there is really only one call. i agree the additional quid pro quo call is not exactly exonerating the president, what happened to the extent the president did say the words, no quid pro quo, he then went on to describe and request a precise quid pro quo. that really does undercut any semblance of a defense here whatsoever. >> go ahead, jeffrey. >> what's wrong with these people? why don't they take notes when they talk to the president of the united states? is that a lot to ask? gordon sondland, this hotel guy is like wandering arou...

That he knew something fishy was afoot. the other thing is that he was staunching opposed to trump's july 25th phone call with ukraine's president because he was afraid that the president would use it to air his personal political grievances, which of course is exactly what happened. the other important thing is that as a former national security adviser, if he were to testify against the president, he would be the most high-profile witness to date, not to mention the fact that he also has receipts, because he was a prolific note-taker. and so, if he has documents and notes and contemporaneous...

Doors, he had to go to amend the testimony and when he showed up before the cameras for the public testimony, he was pretty forthcoming about the number of things he sudsly did not remember and he said he's not a note-taker and never been a note-taker and this is a political person hand-picked by the president for the job he's in. so there are a lot of things already problematic about gordon sondland. you have to look at the totality of the evidence in the hearings and aside of gordon sondland we've heard a remarkably consistent story from all of the other witnesses who have come forward. >> t...