He believed Gordon Sondland talked directly to president donald trump. He said he thought it was approximately five times between july 25th and september 11th. Those, of course, the dates of the first phone call between President Trump and ukraine president zelensky, and then on september 11th, thats when that money, nearly 400 million in security assistance, was released. This just a sneak peek into what these individuals told lawmakers behind closed doors in those depositions. Both of them will testify publicly on capitol hill on tuesday. Ana . Lauren, you have within on top of everything. Theres been so much today, including another person who testified behind closed doors. A top budget official, mark sandy, he was behind closed doors for more than five hours. What did he have to say . Well, what weve heard from a source who was in the room is that mark sandy had concerns, of course, about the fact that he was basically sidelined from exerting this money that had already been appropriated from lawmakers on capitol hill. Republicans and democrats had agreed that this money was necessary for security assistance. This was a bipartisan issue. But he essentially was sidelined from a political person at omb, and he said that, you know, he didnt ask a lot of questions, but he did ask, you know, if you want to be involved in this, there are other ways to do it. If you want to understand how this process works. But essentially, he was sidelined. He said he didnt have direct information about what was going on behind the scenes. But ana, i will tell you that this is an important witness for democrats because this is somebody who was at omb. They have tried to get others at omb to come testify in these depositions. No one has come forward yet. So mark sandy a very important witness for democrats today. Ana . Okay, lauren fox on capitol hill for us. Thank you. Joining us with more on where we go as we plow forward in the impeachment process, cnn political commentator se cupp and keith boykin, former aide to the Clinton White house. So breaking news, these new transcripts just released today. Were hearing from two more people on the actual phone call on july 25th, expressing concern. They will be testifying publicly this week. Doesnt this sort of poke holes in the primary defense weve heard from republicans, which is all this is hearsay . Yeah, hearsay because no one actually heard donald trump say what hes alleged to have said. And it does fall apart. It falls apart because now we have david holmes. We have other people who were on the call who are going to testify as to what they heard. Ive been saying this, though, for weeks. Donald trump himself said it. Donald trump himself said it to cameras. Look at the white house memorandum. He said look at the transcript. But more than that, he said, of course i tied aid to investigations. Why would i give money to a country i thought was corrupt . He explicitly tied it and has defended himself saying ive done nothing wrong. So im glad were getting all the facts. I wish republicansment wanted te more of the facts. Its almost a formality at this point. Hes admitted to doing what he did. And that hasnt moved the needle so much. It kind of stalled, really, keith, when you look at Public Opinion when it comes to this impeachment question. Well, yeah. I think this is a case that is going to be built brick by brick. Its going to take time. Theyre not going to just sort of as the republicans have been arguing put out their star witness from the beginning. The witnesses we saw the past week were witnesses that built a foundation for the case that democrats hoped to make. But what we saw so far is they made a case that there was bribery and extortion and abuse of power from the president of the United States in the highest office in our government. What we saw so far is weve now seen two transcripts or partial transcripts of the president s phone calls with the ukrainian president zelensky. In the second phone call, he mentioned the bidens. In the first phone call, he mentions the Miss Universe pageant. In neither of the phone calls does he mention anything about corruption. This whole argument that the president of the United States is so obsessed with and concerned about corruption is completely debunked by the evidence in his own call transcripts. In fact, what we heard testified from Marie Yovanovitch this week is that the actions that were taken were counterproductive in terms of rooting out corruption. She was removed, and she was part of the effort to really right the ship in what was happening in ukraine. Let me ask you about another thing we learned in this morrison transcript, guys. That is morrison, who by the way is this nsc official who was listening to the phone call, he said he also had interactions with sondland. That name keeps coming up. Sondland, quote, believed and at least related to me that the president was giving him instruction. Again, the president was giving him instruction when it came to these investigations and pressuring ukraine. How much does that raise the stakes, se, for sondlands te tstimony . He should be worried. Hes already testified, and some believe not truthfully. He did have to come back and correct the record. He would be wise to tell the truth this week and tell everything he knows. Hes not a career diplomat. This is new to him. Hes a hotel guy, right . Like so many of Donald Trumps biggest supporters and defenders. They dont really know how government and politics works. Its mind blowing he was so close to a very consequential g geopolitical interest of ours in ukraine. But he needs to now tell everything he knows. Stop being a trump booster and save yourself. Its still penalty under law to lie to congress. I can already here the republican defense here. That is sondlands not credible. Hes already changing his story. So which story are we to believe . Keith . I find that a remarkable defense, that the guy who donald trump has appointed to be his Eu Ambassador is not credible because his story hasnt changed. The fact that his story has changed proves, i think, or at least it suggests that it shows evidence of his guilt in the first account of his story. He had to go back to congress and retell the story. You put that in the context of donald trump also engaging in witness intimidation or potential witness intimidation with Marie Yovanovitch and other future witnesses this week. You put that in the context of the other testimony thats come this week, and it doesnt look like the republicans have a clear defense. Theyre searching for something to say, grasping at straws to come up with some sort of way to respond. The conservative media did seem to, i guess, praise is the right word one particular kong member who w Congress Member who was asking questions. I know you had a few quick questions for the ambassador. I yield to you. Thank you, mr. Nunes. Ambassador yovanovitch, thank you for being the gentlewoman will suspend. What is the interruption for this time . It is our time. Since the chairman has gavelled out all of my colleagues with their unanimous consent, i am going to read for the record many of the chairmans comments in september of the importance of hearing from the whistleblower. The witness was able to answer questions. As you saw, the only People Limited from asking questions were republican members because we were muzzled by adam schiff. What were your thoughts on how republicans conducted themselves at these hearings . Look, i thought she was an effective questioner. She was also an effective sort of stunt. They knew what the rules were. They knew they were going to break them and make it look like they were being muzzled and silenced. Thats a strategy, i guess. I think for republicans and for the audience of one in donald trump, she did a very good job. Now, whether that affects her personally remains to be seen. Her opponent in her new york congressional race raised 400,000 in 24 hours after that. Including a donation from george conway. Yeah, so it introduced a lot of people to Elise Stefanek for the first time in a good way, probably for many others in a bad way. I think some in the media have handled her moment with some partisanship. I think if a democrat had been as forceful in one of those hearings, shed be praised. She was sort of roundly criticized for what she did. She did what politicians do in these things. Praised if she was sort of following the rules, but she was clearly in violation of the rules. She knew it and the republicans knew it. They had nothing to offer other than diversions and posters and interruptions and points of order. But theres no substantive defense at any point to the allegations against donald trump. The basic bottom line here is that were supposed to believe that all these Public Servants who have devoted their lives and devoted their careers to serving their government are all liars. But the president of the United States, a man who spent his entire life dodging the draft, avoiding taxes, bankrupting businesses, evading his responsibility to his spouses. All these things hes done, defrauding investors, defrauding students, defrauding the American People and donors, were supposed to believe that this guy is the truth teller and the patriot and all these Career Foreign Service people are all liars. Its preposterous. But heres what i wonder. I think people who are watching the entire testimony who have been following this story closely are able to really soak in the details. People who arent able to follow as closely as we are, i kind of wonder what their takeaway is and whether because it is so complicated, some of those republican deflections, distractions are working and maybe muddying the waters enough for people to not put all the pieces together in the way democrats would prefer it to be received. Polling has suggested and i think you alluded to this earlier, that opinions are really baked in the cake. So people are not really changing their mind. If they had an opinion on what was going to happen, theyve really stuck with it. So for the rest of the people who havent really been paying attention, maybe didnt have an opinion, i think theyre following it in a way that they actually can interpret. I dont think its all that complicated. I think its very clear. And democrats, i think, have been very smart in rolling out their witnesses with breaks in between, like a day in between. You get to digest it. Then you come back and its another one saying the same, if not more damning things about the president. And then theres another one. Its this building wave. I think youd have to be willfully not listening, not to put these pieces together. Do you think democrats need to make any adjustments Going Forward in this upcoming week of public testimony . Not really. I think i agree with what se said. Theyve been really smart in the way theyve actually had the private depositions before they had the and the private depositions, then the release of the deposition testimony, and then the actual public testimony. So you get three bites of the apple basically. Three attempts to show the American People what this person was saying. And the first attempt is really an introduction of who this person is. Most people dont know who Marie Yovanovitch is or bill taylor. They do now. Theyve had three different news stories, three different days where theyve been introduced in the public. When they finally appear and testify, its powerful. Its impactful. Keith boykin, se cupp, thank you. Ses show is the at top of the hour. Stay with us here on cnn. And were still going through those two newly released transcripts this hour where two more officials are coming forward about the concerns they raised about President Trumps july phone call with ukraines president. A member of the House Judiciary Committee joins us next. Of nowhere. Those are the ones that show up and change everything. So wim searching for info those are the ones that show up on options trading, and look, it feels like im just wasting time. Wasted time is wasted opportunity. Exactly. Thats why Td Ameritrade designed a firstofitskind, personalized education center. See, you just oh, this is easy. 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Also happening today, the first omb official to testify described today how unusual it was for a political appointee to step in and take over the process of putting that hold on nearly 400 million in aid to ukraine. I want to bring in Texas Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson lee who sits on the House Judiciary Committee. Congresswoman, as weve been revealing, more and more nuggets of what were learning in realtime from these closed door testimonies, because they have these two transcripts just released today, now were hearing from both morrison as well as williams, who are listening to the call, saying what they heard was concerning. They also testified that it was sondland who told morrison at least that he was told directly by the president that they needed to pursue these political investigations. Whats your reaction . I think, ana, what were seeing and what i hope the American People are seeing is that there are Building Blocks towards the real question and that is whether or not the president has perpetrated impeachable offenses. The basis of this is that the American People should understand that the constitution did not give the president of the United States absolute power. That is what this president has used as his defense, whether or not the republicans are saying hearsay or process, it really is based upon the fact that theyre saying the president can do anything that he wants. Okay, so let me ask that is not the case under the constitution. Have you seen enough . Are you ready to draft articles of impeachment . What i will say to you is because i do and would sit in the role of a grand jury, ive gone on record for impeachment, but what i am promising is that i will listen to all the facts and as well listen to the president when he would come and when i say he, his representatives, will have the opportunity to come forward during the impeachment process under the authority of the grand jury that is the Judiciary Committee pursuant to house rules. But what i will say to you that i do think the facts point clearly to aspects of high crimes and misdemeanors and the abuse of power. Thats key. Abuse of power is understandable if youre a patriot and putting your country, your nation over your party. Because what the president has done is set a trail of facts of asking a foreign entity to investigate his 2020 political opponent. He has intimidated or at least smeared a sitting ambassador. He skewed the diplomatic process by asking personal lawyers and friends to intervene in what could be a National Security threat to the United States. If ukraine falls to the russian intrusion, thats a threat to us. Many people dont realize and ill share this with you. There are white nationalists who are going to the fight in ukraine from the United States. Theres a myriad of issues around this that the president doesnt seem to be aware of. Hold on. What you just said, do you have facts to back that up, the white nationalists going to fight in ukraine . I want to make sure we got the facts here. Do you have evidence of that . No, that was in a public hearing just recently that we had in washington, d. C. Okay. These are issues these are issues we must be concerned about. But i think the real crux is you dont fool around with foreign policies like this because it has a real impact on the American People. So the facts we are hearing, facts based upon witnesses who have actually heard this discussion, are methodical Building Blocks toward the fact or the question of whether or not we proceed with an impeachment process. I want to play some new video from intel chairman adam schiff, who is leading the impeachment hearings. He was appearing at the California DemocraticParty Convention today. Here it is. We will send that charlatan in the white house back to the Golden Throne he came from. And you know why . Because we vote. How do we build another big, beautiful wave . We vote. Congresswoman, youre trying to convince the public in the gravest terms that in the interest of upholding the constitution, the president should be removed from office. The other side keeps saying this is a sham, a partisan witch hunt, as President Trump calls it. Should the man running the impeachment inquiry be above this kind of name calling . Well, first of all, this isnt an inquiry. This is an investigation. This will wind up as a report that will be submitted to the Judiciary Committee. Id ask the public to follow the facts, and id also say the president often makes the comment that he has the freedom of speech. Adam schiff has the freedom of speech as well. He did say lets vote. I believe the facts are going to supersede any conversation anyone might have out of the actual arena of the investigation or proceedings. That is that youre hearing from patriots like ambassador yovanovitch. Youre hearing from individuals that have come forward in the last 24 hours, witnesses to actually conversations of ambassador sondland. Youll hear from ambassador sondland. You may hear again from Lieutenant Colonel vindman. If you hear these facts and you listen to them with clarity and you understand the Founding Fathers concept of what the three branches of government is that no one should have ultimate power. The president is using ultimate power to abuse and skew diplomacy and National Security, to smear diplomats, to in actuality sell the security of thenitis for a few tidbits of information about an opponent, insist upon a political appointee, ambassador sondland, to be the guide of his political needs overseas, such as the investigations of someone. But thats not impeachable because he has someone whos a political appointee leading the way in terms of those investigations. But understanding how Foreign Policy and diplomacy work or should work can be complicated, especially for the average american, who has a lot going on in their lives. If somebody who wasnt following this story closely was watching this week, do you think democrats did a good enough job of making their case . Well, i absolutely do. I didnt suggest a political appointee guiding the direction of the president in and of itself, but clearly being the spokesperson for the president s absolute direction for you to get investigations going on a political opponent is certainly, again, an abuse of power. We must understand that the impeachment process, we didnt choose to do this. The president s facts are created by himself. The impeachment process is grounded in the early concerns of the Founding Fathers that you dont have an executive thats absolutely out of control. I think we have made the evidentiary trail that there is something awry in the white house and something awry with the president s actions as it relates to whether or not he puts the interest of the American People over his selfinterest or political interest. We have shown that this week. There will be additional witnesses, i believe. They will be cross examined. Likewise, if we proceed, we will have the opportunity to hear from the president as well. But the constitution clearly was a document of checks and balances. Have we checked this president . No, weve not. Does he believe he has absolute power . Yes. Has he abused that power . Yes. And that is certainly a violation of the constitution as it relates to the impeachment process. We have not judged it yet. We have not finished yet. But we will proceed and hope the facts will come clearly and that this will be a process not respecting democrats or republicans but really asking people to make their decisions based upon what is in the best interest of this country. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson lee, great to have you with us. Thanks for taking the time. Youre very kind. Thank you for having me. The impeachment inquiry, the witnesses, the testimony, the latest evidence. Join chris cuomo for a cnn special the white house in crisis the impeachment inquiry tomorrow night starting at 8 00 eastern. Breaking news into cnn right now. 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Thats interesting because President Trump was instructed to bring up corruption issues during his april congratulatory call but ultimately did not based on the transcript that the whours has released. That kind of undercuts the white houses argument that President Trump was so concerned, of course, about corruption issues more broadly, not just about the bidens. Then there is this september 1st meeting between Vice President mike pence and the ukrainian president in which the concern from the ukrainians here is very clear. Williams testifies that it was the first question that zelensky raised, asking him about this frozen u. S. Military aid to ukraine. Williams also testifies that pence simply responded saying, look, were looking forward to your reforms and insisting that the u. S. Was committed to ukraines future. Also, jeremy, new details about that july 25th call. What can you tell us . Thats right. There is this july 25th call in which zelensky sorry, let me start again. This july 25th call in which President Trump talks to president zelensky. This is a call thats a matter of concern, of course. In the transcript of that call, the rough transcript that was released by the white house, burisma is not mentioned by name, the company hunter biden sat on the board of. Now you have williams testifying that president zelensky did bring up burisma by name. Shes the second official who listened in on that july 25th call who has said that burisma was specifically mentioned by name. Lieutenant colonel alex vindman also said that burisma was mentioned by name, even though it was not in the transcript. Instead, it refers broadly to a company. So thats an important clarification, Important Note there from a National Security aide. The details matter. Jeremy diamond at the white house for us, thank you. Up next, stunning new development in the Colin Kaepernick saga. 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That sparked arguably the biggest social Justice Movement in sports, a powerful nike campaign, an nfl settlement, and tweets from President Trump. Lets go live to cnns andy scholes, whos following all of this for us. Andy, the workout is under way, as we speak. Whats happening . Reporter ana, what a wild afternoon weve had here in atlanta. It looks like Colin Kaepernick right now may be wrapping up his workout. He was on the field stretching, then he went through a routine of short passes, deep passes. Right now hes out there in the center of the field with some of the receivers he was throwing passes to. I could tell you, we have had an eventful afternoon. This was supposed to be a private workout run by the nfl at the Atlanta Falcons practice facility. We were all there. The media was there. I watched at least 20 scouts from nfl teams enter that facility. At the very last second, we got a statement from Colin Kaepernicks representatives that it was not happening there. They pulled the rug out from under it and moved it to this High School Stadium here near the atlanta airport. They did that apparently because its about this liability waiver. T it had apparently an employment related clause in it that Colin Kaepernicks representatives were not comfortable with. So they said they would not sign it and were moving this workout to this location here. As you can see, the workout has, in fact, wrapped up. At the falcons facility, like i said, which was 58 miles from where we are now, there were about 20 scouts. Here i count about six or seven scouts. Hundreds of Colin Kaepernick fans and supporters have gathered at the end of the end zone and have been watching this entire workout as its been going. You might have heard some cheers right there. What this does to Colin Kaepernicks future, well have to wait and see. Definitely still mistrust between Colin Kaepernick and the National Football league. And andy, i dont know if i missed it, but how many teams showed up to watch . Reporter its not confirmed. The scouts were over here on this side of the field, and it looks to be about six scouts here watching Colin Kaepernick work out. Whereas, when we were at the falcons facility, i watched about 20 scouts enter there to watch that workout. Looks like Colin Kaepernick is going to go greet some of the supporters in that end zone that were here cheering him on. Interesting. Okay. Well check back with you. Keep us posted. Thank you, andy. All right. Russia has long relished the political chaos in the United States. Just more proof of the wests decline. So how is this impeachment inquiry being viewed in moscow . Well take a look next. Of nowhere. Those are the ones that show up and change everything. Our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition. For strength and energy whoohoo greattasting ensure. With nine grams of protein and twentyseven vitamins and minerals. 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This past week we saw two full days of public live on television capitol hill hearings in President Trumps impeachment inquiry, and they were difficult to avoid. Cable news, radio, and websites all dominated by witness testimony. It will continue again next week. This impeachment process has another very eager audience and its in russia. Cnns Fred Pleitgen is in moscow. Reporter the kremlin is feasting on the impeachment inquiry in the u. S. Staterun media clearly taking President Trumps side, even echoing talking points used by republicans during the first hearing, trying to discredit testimony from americas top diplomat in ukraine, bill taylor. You didnt listen in on President Trumps call . I did not. You never talked with chief of staff mulvaney . No. Translator and one of the main witnesses in this case turned out to be almost a stool pigeon. It came to light all his information is thirdhand. He never spoke to trump. Translator ignoring other damning evidence taylor laid out. Reporter the russians rejoicing, believing President Trump has shown he cares about investigations into political rivals but not ukraine itself. Translator youre being used without even asking for any permission. You know what the term for that is. All those important people in america are now talking what strange people you are and how you can be used. Reporter but russian state Media Support for President Trump goes even further. One news report even attempting to reveal the identity of the whistleblower, whose complaint brought the controversy around the trump zelensky call to light. Even as the president continues to claim there was nothing wrong with the call. The whistleblower gave a lot of very incorrect information, including my call with the president of ukraine, which was a perfect call. Reporter the cozy relations with President Trump are paying off for Vladimir Putin. Perceived lack of support from the u. S. President has weakened ukraines leader at his country continues to face a russianback russianbacked insurgency. Zelensky was all but forced to approve a russiannegotiated formula leading to talks in moscow. And zelensky was challenged by veterans on the front line who felt he was bowing to the russians after losing americas support. Translator im the president of this country. Im 41 years old. Im not a loser. Reporter as ukraines president struggles to navigate the fallout of President Trumps ukraine moves, kremlincontrolled media is in a feeding frenzy, hungrily awaiting the next impeachment hearings. Fred pleitgen, cnn, moscow. I want to get steve hall in here. Hes our National Security analyst and spent 30 years in the cia. He was chief of russia operations there. Steve, whats putin taking away from this weeks hearings . Well, ana, what this situation and the hearing specifically, which focused more tightly on it, is giving Vladimir Putin is a real smo smorgasbord of different options, different themes he can pursue, both using propaganda, as we just saw there on their propaganda network, the staterun television there, and also options further down the road, all of which are bad for the United States and all of which i think youare going to significantly erode our National Security. Ukraine is a key thing for russia, obviously. Any opportunity that Vladimir Putin can have, which is provided to him by President Trump or by the United States, to weaken ukraine, to weaken the government there and perhaps allow russia to end up controlling all of ukraine, thats a great thing. But theres just so many different back and forth themes coming out here that putin can pick and choose and decide, okay, today i want to go in this direction. Tomorrow im going to do something thats going to make trump look really good. Then ill come back and do Something Else that makes him look really bad. He can basically do whatever he wants because he has all of this great ammo that trump is giving him. Sounds like he has a playground before him. This week we also learned Gordon Sondland talked to trump on a cell phone in a restaurant in ukraine. A diplomatic aide says the president was talking so loud, heck actually overhear their conversation, and that they talked about, quote, investigations. Aside from the National Security risks of taking this call on a personal cell phone, what are the chances putin has a recording of this conversation . Oh, its 100 . Theres no doubt that the russians, who have a very extensive Intelligence Network already in place in ukraine to do things such as not just pick up telephone calls and listen to them, you know, but also the same thing they were doing here in 2016, affect influence operations, drive Public Opinion. But in my mind, theres no doubt that they have that phone call. And this has really negative implications, ana, down the road for our National Security because one of putins favorite themes is, hey, these people who are telling you guys in ukraine and other developing democracies that democracy is the way to go, you know, its a big hoax. Theyre pulling the wool over your eyes. These guys are no better than the authoritarian places like russia that we live in. When President Trump calls up somebody in ukraine and says, i need a favor from you, though, in exchange for help on a domestic rival here in the United States, that proves it for putin. He will take that to the bank every single time. 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