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Promised a grave and somber impeachment inquiry. instead, they got the salacious five screen comedy that they have been working on for three years. tonight, see you in the morning. >> i think the gentleman, and i think you both for your testimony today. i would highlight a couple of things about what we've heard this afternoon. first, ambassador volker, your written testimony in which you say "in hindsight, i now understand others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the ukrainian company burisma as equivalent to investigating former vice president biden." i saw them as ...

The american people were promised a brave and somber impeachment inquiry. instead, they got this alicia's spy screen, the that they have been working on for three years. good night for you to see the morning. >> thank you, gentlemen. i thank you, both, for your testimony today. i would highlight a couple of things about what we have heard this afternoon. first, ambassador volker, your written testimony in which you say, and hindsight, i now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving ukraine and company burisma as equivalent to investigating former vice p...

Just a minute here but i think, you know, you've heard uncontradicted testimony from ambassador sondland and i hope when we go to the republican questions that they recognize this is a reset, it's time to get serious. >> eric swalwell, democrat, california. we'll let you go and see you on tv. thank you very much for joining us. i wonder when members of the committee learned that sondland was going to bring it today? >> well, story broke in "the new york times" at 7:00 this morning. >> yeah. >> with evidence that at least some news organizations were starting to learn and i believe there were p...

The loop and the genesis of it was a paper routing slip in the era before electronic communications that had all of the offices in the west wing, all of the stops. >> when i worked there you still got speeches that way. hard copies and the loop was on the outside of the brown envelope. you saw who -- it was called staffing a document and the loop was distribution lists and you're right because it's been turned against everyone and sondland has been turned against his political patron, donald trump, and i just keep going back to don mcgahn and he was robert mueller's star witness, he was in wit...

>> is that right? now, you're capable of putting two and two together and so are the ukrainians. they could put two and two together as well. they understood there was a hold on security assistance. there's testimony that they understood that in july or august but it was without a doubt understood when it was made public in the newspaper, they understood that the security assistance was being held up, right? >> i don't know when they understood it but presumably they did. >> well, certainly once it was public they understood the security assistance was withheld, right. >> once it was public, i...