into the bidens. that is ambassador sondland. but a senior u.s. diplomat now says he was with sondland in ukraine when he called president trump, told him he had just met with a new government in kiev and that it had agreed to launch the investigations the president had requested. that diplomat, david holmes, testified ambassador sondland held the phone away from his ear at a public restaurant and he clearly heard the president asking about investigations. after the call, holmes said ambassador sondland told him when it comes to ukraine, president trump cares only about, quote, big stuff that benefits the ft like the biden investigation mr. giuliani was pushing. so ambassador sondland has some explaining to do in the week ahead. mr. giuliani had a starring role in the week just ended. he illustrated a smear campaign that cost ambassador marie yovanovitch her job. yovanovitch told congress the u.s. embassy team was alarmed to see rudy giuliani pop up in ukraine working with the corrupt