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With donald trump and holding up military aid until investigations were announced into burisma and the bidens in 2016. >> yeah. it was really interesting to listen to fiona hill yesterday talk about that, how she reading the previous testimony hearing the previous testimony came to understand that it wasn't, as you say, a rogue op. it wasn't sort of an outside channel. this was what was going on, this was ordered by the president obviously he had some involvement in it. the problem of course for the investigators is they don't have many people putting words in his mouth in meetings that would ...

>> this to you was the only logical conclusion that you could reach? >> correct. >> sort of like two plus two equals four. >> exactly. >> so david holmes also recounted the july 26th cell phone call he overheard between president trump and eu ambassador gordon sondland at a restaurant in kyiv. >> you heard president trump ask ambassador sonland, is he going to do the investigation. >> yes, sir. >> what was ambassador sondland's response? >> he said oh, yes, he's going to do it, he'll do anything you ask. >> and was that the end of the ukraine portion of the conversation? >> yes. >> afterwards,...

He dangled a different one a face to face with president trump. >> president trump ever never told me directly that the aid was conditioned on the meetings. the only thing we got directly from giuliani was that the burisma and 2016 elections were conditioned on the white house meeting. the aid was my own personal guess based again on your analysis, two plus two equals four. >> president trump himself trying to spin the damming impeachment's testimony that tied him to the pressure campaign. he claimed the testimony vindicates him. >> he asked me what should he do? i said i want nothing. it then...

Investigations. he dangled that carat from a different one. a possible face to face between president trump and president zelensky. a meeting ukraine very much wanted. >> president trump never told me directly the aid was conditions on the mootings. the only thing we got was that 2016 election were condition on the white house meeting. the aid was my own personal guess based on your analogy of two plus two equals four. >> and he claims that sondland's testimony vindicates him. >> you ask me what should he do? i said i want nothing it then i repeated it. i want nothing.

And it was withheld over the objection of every single agency that was involved in it, the national security council, the department of defense and the state department all wanted him to go ahead and directly instructed that it was being withheld under orders of mick mulvaney from the president for reasons that were never revealed. two plus two equals four, erica. he did it. he withheld the aid in an attempt to shake down the ukrainian president to undertake this politically motivated investigation. >> as you pointed out, that's what was coming from mick mulvaney. as we heard from ambassador s...