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Saying essentially the same thing which is i was just following the president's orders and that is a significant thing. that is what makes this impeachable and the underlying behavior. >> because there's no question it goes to the top. >> normally white house staff tried to insulate the president. you can i have now people running to say the president told me to do this on camera, on the record, before congress, under oath. that is stunning. >> so, nia, the mulvaney statement, right? let me be clear, was there no quid pro quo between any military aid and the investigation into the 2016 electio...

Ukrainian president would get a visit to the white house. boris sanchez is traveling with the president tonight. meantime, out front live in dallas, and boris, a stunning about face from mulvaney today. >> reporter: yeah. that's right,ier en. mulvaney's attempt to get his side of the story backfiring in spectacular fashion. mulvaney apparently getting the sense that what he did today didn't help the president's case and so he rushed out this statement suggesting that we all did not see him say what we all saw him say. that, apparently, did not sit well with the white house legal team or the pr...

The key lines of the statement mick mulvaney put out. he says once again the media has decided to misconstrue my comments. let me be clear there was no quid pro quo between ukrainian military aid and any investigation into the 2016 election. unfortunately, for mr. mull vain the tape speaks for himself. it was a stunning moment when the acting chief of staff exposed his boss in an admission. he said aid money was held up to ukraine in exchange for investigations and reporters were stunned. in fact, they were so stunned that they asked him again and again and again, and he stuck to his answer. >...

Manu, what have you learned about what sondland told lawmakers in those nine hours today? >> reporter: well, he said he was disappointed by president trump's direction telling senior u.s. officials including himself to go through rudy giuliani, his personal attorney, before any efforts were made to strengthen the key strategic alliance between the united states and the ukrainian government. he said that soon after the ukrainian president zelensky was inaugurated in earlier this year that he went to go brief the president along with others and the president said talk to rudy giuliani first, and...

Performance just a short time ago. he said he didn't actually get to see it first hand and someone told him mulvaney did a good job and the president saying that he has confidence in his acting chief of staff. the president is set to take the stage at any moment and we'll keep you updated with what he says if he does mention his acting chief of staff. >> it will be very interesting to see if he does. it is mulvaney's desperate attempt to say he didn't say what he said is at the behest of a very specific person about to speak where you are. >> evan, your sources are telling you, i was using the...