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Absolutely nothing to do with biden. >> still at the heart of the impeachment inquiry which brought another dramatic day on capitol hill, the ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland in the hot seat. >>y y-was it important to show up today? >> it is always important to show up when congress calls. >> are you here to sal skrvage replication? >> i don't have a replication to salvage. >> it is said that trump outsourced to rudy giuliani, and sondland testified we were disappointed by the president's direction that we involve mr. giuliani. >> was that a shadow foreign policy? >> that is a...

They could not see because there was one official foreign policy being run here, according to testimony and our reporting, and then there was a shadow policy, also being run. and different people inside the government were told you have to go through giuliani. >> just to -- it continues down here, something you reference. he says, i did not understand until much later that mr. giuliani's agenda might have included an effort to prompt the ukrainians to investigate biden or his son or to involve ukrainians directly in the president's re-election campaign. that's a trump appointee in his testimon...

Who is in the room when the will not meet with anybody or president is having this talk to anybody. conversation, okay? >> harris: and then trump said gordon sondland the investor to there was confusion whether or not they would meet. the e.u. >> chris: given the reporting kirk voelker wh who is special designated all -- envoy to the that we had read and given ukraine. i sit next to mike pompeo with a erdogan's very belligerent, very meeting with the congressional hostile public utterances, leaders and i understand i which, of course, consumption in turkey because strongmen like to coordinated...

His syria policy, including leaders for the republicans in the room, kevin mccarthy, steven scalise and cheney and that seemed to get under the president's skin yesterday. they are scrambling to come up with some sort of strategy. but right now the overwhelming sentiment on capitol hill is against the president's policy in syria. >> let's talk about gordon sondland for a moment. he is an interesting character in the impeachment inquiry, because he is not obviously a diplomat but he is at the center of this diplomatic crisis that is unfolding with a lot of the diplomatic civil servants who are ...

>> who else is in the room? who is in the room when the president is having this conversation, okay? gordon sondland, ambassador to the eu, kurt volker who was our special designated envoy to the ukraine. i sat next to mike pompeo yesterday at the meeting with the congressional leaders and pd look, i understand i coordinated a coup against you by putting sondland and vom ke sondla sondland and volker in chanlg of ukraine policy and he said you know, they both work for me. there is no shadow policy here. the president is entitled to have whoever he wants to work. >> just to follow on that quest...