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Truth as to what happened on january 6th and to make sure that it never happens again, which means making recommendations to the full congress on steps that we can take from a security perspective to ensure that we have appropriate guardrails and safeguards to guard our constitutional republic. that is what the commission is about. it is modeled after the 9/11 commission which was a bipartisan commission that did tremendous work after the 9/11 attack. as you know, as you just played it, ultimately attracted 35 house republicans in support of the legislation last week. i think americans should ...

Erica, this was not about policy, this was about politics. if it was about policy it would have worked through the embassy process. >> when we talk about the policy, the president certainly as we know had the power to change, to set policy. what's fascinating what sam just touched on here. we have ambassador sondland who had one policy. you hear from bill taylor, you hear from volker who saw something different, who saw perhaps a completely different channel. from a security perspective how concerning is that that there are multiple messages out here and it's not clear which one is official? >...

All right. the july 26th phone call. that's something you'll hear a lot about starting in less than two hours. lawmakers are going to have the chance to ask the u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondland about this now-notorious conversation that day with president trump himself on a mobile phone in a restaurant in the middle of the ukrainian capital. on an unsecured line. the city crawling with russian intel agents. that's a problem called a gordon problem in quotes. now is it going to stay that way? let's bring in chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. so, jimmy, help us understan...

And getting the president of the united states on the phone and getting instructions from him, which is remarkable from a security perspective. but the fact that anyone can get the president on the cell phone is remarkable as well. so sondland is going to be important. let's not forget tuesday we'll hear from colonel vindman. on thursday we're going to get fiona hill testifying as well. that's an important one because fiona hill was in the meetings that sondland had with ukrainian officials where she left it. actually, john bolton cut short the meeting, told fiona hill to report those conversa...

Testimony. sondland actually picking up the phone in a restaurant in kiev and getting the president of the united states on the phone and getting instructions from him, which is remarkable from a security perspective. but the fact that anyone could actually get the president on the phone on a cell phone is also remarkable, as well. and so sondland's going to be important. but let's not forget tuesday we're going to hear from colonel vindman, as well, and then on thursday we're going to get fiona hill testifying as well. and that's an important one because fiona hill was in the meetings that so...