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Restaurant in kiev, over a cellphone, how his whole story differs from the norm where communicating with presidents is concerned. >> well, normally when diplomats are overseas and they're communicating back to the white house, certainly with the president, a diplomat will go into a secure facility and speak on a classified or secure line. but not ambassador sondland. he called the president from a restaurant in kiev, had the president speaking loudly into sondland's cellphone, and there were others in the restaurant who could hear the conversation coming out of sondland's phone. and what holme...

Rate star who went to a lot of risk to do this, by the way. he's a mid-career person with a lot of time in the government ahead of him. that earmark, the presidential aide, he knows this is sensitive stuff. he doesn't want the note-taker there. that's somebody showing sophistication. and that ambassador sondland is on the phone with people sitting around, by the way, with the russians and ukrainians also listening in, don't forget that, shows just how inexperienced this guy is, and he's way over his head. maybe he was even showing off, right? maybe he wants these people to see he's talking to ...

Reporting that the feds in new york are investigating whether rudy giuliani stood to personally profit from a ukrainian natural gas business pushed by his indicted associates lev and igor who were pressuring ukrainians to launch an investigation for the president. and roger stone found guilty. and finally, what happened when the hearing came to an end? here is what happened when the ambassador had completed her testimony. >> do you think it's witness intimidation to essentially be attacking her while she's on the stand testifying against her? >> i think ambassador yovanovitch has served -- [ a...

Withholding aid. again, did he really need to spell it out, especially with his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, who for weeks has been meeting with ukrainian officials, pressuring ukrainians to investigate the bidens, which is of course not normal, not for any president in any party, ever, which the president's treasury secretary must have known yesterday even as cnn's jake tapper asked him this. >> let me just close by asking, if, for instance, president obama had pressured a foreign leader, putin or the president of the ukraine and said, i want you to look into donald trump jr. or i want y...

Should note is also for members only. no staff so far based on what we're told is going to be invited to that meeting. >> how are people in the white house viewing this because, again, the president himself admitted to bringing up the bidens in his conversation with the ukrainian president, which is what "the wall street journal" reported. >> reporter: yeah, and as the president admitted that leaving the white house yesterday, his aides were on tv insisting he did not pressure the ukrainians in that conversation. he didn't make any mention of that aid package when the president today was makin...