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And i just want to be clear on this. this call between the president of the united states and gordon sondland, gordon sondland was holding the phone away from his ear because the president was speaking so loudly and that is how david holmes was so directly able to hear the words of the president of the united states, and i also want to be clear on this call and there were otherses at that lunch also who heard this call between trump and sondland. this development is making sondland's public testimony next week if anything, more important. it already was central, but now this is it. manu raju i...

This evidence is first hand. cnn has just obtained the opening statement. this is from david holmes, an aide to top ukrainian diplomat bill taylor. this is -- this is -- this is an incredible document, okay. holmes is telling lawmakers behind closed doors about a july lunch that he had with the ambassador of the european union gordon sondland and this lunch happened in kiev. it was at that lunch that sondeland announced he was going to call president trump, and then this is what happened according to holmes. so let me read this crucial part and we'll read as much of this as we can to you, but ...

President zelensky loves your ass. and i heard him ask, he's going to do the investigation? i added, he is going to do it, and adding that president zelensky will do anything you ask him to. this is not hearsay anymore. >> no, it's not. note to files, if you're going to shake down a foreign leader, don't send an amateur to do it. that's one of the lessons here. gordon sondland, there's a reason why he was using sondland. he was not a career diplomat and not part of the professional foreign service, and he knew that if he went through those people as we've seen, they would object to what he was...

Because there were no investigations that were opened. none. zero. so it didn't happen and he didn't do anything that the conversations were happening and the second thing is that you're supposing that, like, that there's some other conversations that have happened which we don't have any information about. >> i will leave it there and i appreciate your time as always, congressman. thanks for being with me. >> now there are six, and roger stone is the latest trump associate convicted for breaking the law tonight. this holiday season

United states saying it. >> and ukraine and the money being withheld and all of that is secondhand and he has no real knowledge. >> well, he heard the president of the united states that he's going to do the investigation, end quote. that's from president trump's mouth. >> well, that's what he says and he says it three months later and he took copious notes about everything else that happened except that, but even so, erin, let's take everything he said it's true and there's a question as to its accuracy and let's take it as true, he's not saying anything that the president didn't say with zel...