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David holmes told us just today about it. he overheard the president's ambassador to the eu gordon sondland talking to the president of the united states from a restaurant in kyiv. the president followed up with him after his own call with zelensky. here's what mr. holmes says he heard. >> i could hear the president's voice through the earpiece of the phone. ambassador sondland replied yes, he was in ukraine and went on to state that president zelensky, quote, loves your ass. i then heard president trump ask, "so he's going to do the investigation?" ambassador sondland replied that he's going ...

Next day. david holmes told us just today about it. he overheard the president's ambassador to the eu gordon sondland talking to the president of the united states from a restaurant in kyiv. the president followed up with him after his own call with zelensky. here's what mr. holmes says he heard. >> i could hear the president's voice through the ear piece of the phone. ambassador sondland replied yes, he was in ukraine and went on to state that president zelensky, quote, loves your ass. i then heard president trump ask, "so he's going to do the investigation?" ambassador sondland replied that ...

A shadow operation. this -- this was the operation. that's a big, big deal. now, again, what the republicans are going to point out is his actual conversations with the president himself seem to be more limited. that -- that the one real quote he -- he attributed to the president on this is talk with rudy. but what ambassador sondland said is, i understood that to mean that rudy was, therefore, conveying what the president wanted when he said let's push the ukrainians to get these investigations into democrats. really, giuliani's words were in effect the same as the president's. >> peter baker...

Further details of the scope and the insidiousness of the president's shadow operation to extort ukraine into helping him win re-election. right before our show on friday, we learned that a state department official told congress that he overheard a phone conversation where the president himself asked the u.s. ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland, if the ukrainian president was, goquote, gonna d the investigation. he also testified after the phone call sondland agreed, quote, the president did not give an s about ukraine. he also learned more about how long ago the ukraine scheme was hatched....

President trump. we've heard several ways of describing this shady, shadow operation, shadow diplomacy, rogue back channel. ambassador taylor, you have described what you encountered is the top diplomat on the ground in ukraine and i quote "highly irregular informal channel of u.s. policymaking." you testified that the channel included ambassador volker, sondland, secretary perry, and as he later learned, the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani. is that correct? >> yes, ma'am. >> both of you of it explained that you grew seriously concerned when he realized that the interests of this ...