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Investigating former vice president biden. mr. yermak, the close advisors noted explicitly in august 2019 "new york times" story which was published before the beginning of the impeachment inquiry. in this article, yermak said that he and mayor giuliani did not discuss a link between a presidential meeting and investigations. witness testimony confirms yermak statement. ambassador volker testified there was no linkage between a potential meeting and investigations. although ambassador sondland testified that he believed there was a quid pro quo, his testimony is not as clear as it has been por...

That. he did that. brian: meanwhile, let's just talk about gordon sondland for a second. he was the u.n. ambassador that donated to the president's campaign. steve: a million dollars to the inaugural. brian: president obviously had some trust in him because they had cell phone number reportedly. and they were in communication, it seems. goneld gordon sondland amended his testimony. when he came out he first testified that he never thought there was any precondition on the aid to the ukraine. but two weeks later he amended the testimony saying i said the resumption of u.s. aid would likely not ...

Joining us now is jeffrey toobin. sondland had testified before he didn't see a quid pro quo. he now says he did. let me read what he said here. he talks about a meeting where i said the resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement we had been discussing for many weeks. the investigation into the group connected to the bidens. >> what makes this so significant is that every witness except sondland had said i saw a quid pro quo. but sondland said i didn't really see that. but then he comes out with this supplemental statement, this swo...

Andallegations against democratc lieutenant governor justin fairfax which fairfax has deni denied. one of the diplomat who has amended his testimony is basing your questions as democrats say it proves quid pro quo. correspondent mark meredith has the story. >> newly released documents show european union ambassador gordon solomon amended his congressional testimony on monday. sondland says he recalls a meeting in telling congress, "i said the resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks." som...

Is. >> laura: oh, is it? here is what sondland actually said about quid pro quo. he said that i, i said the resumption of usa would likely not occur until ukraine provided public anticorruption occurred. i still do not know why or by whom the aide was present in, but i assumed the aide had become linked to the proposed anticorruption statement. in other words, he was offering something called an opinion to the ukrainians about why military aid was held up. gentlemen, congressman devin nunes, ranking member of the house intel committee, and robert ray, former whitewater independent counsel. con...