Yeah. Bad day for the state of division because now that the truth is this obvious, the division becomes even more odious. It does, and i have to say at this point if youre continuing to say that there was no, as they say, quid pro quo or the president didnt ask or whatever, whether or not its impeachable, that is again not up for me to decide, not up for you to decide. Thats up for the senate to decide and the American People. But to deny that the president did not do something wrong at this point, it is plolitical. Its mental. Thats what it is. If you can look at the mountain of evidence and say nothings wrong. The president didnt do anything wrong. Hes just rooting out corruption, you got a problem. Yeah. Because that is not what happened. The problem is youre a partisan. The problem is you. They say that hes not represented, don. I have never seen a man better represented. You could have someone coming after you in the middle of your christmas dinner at your familys house. You wouldnt be as well represented as he was. Everybody in that room was only trying to find ways on the republican side to get him out of this. And not addressing the substance at all. So when you cant address the substance, what does that mean . You bring up old conspiracy hen theories. It means youre not doing your job. If they were all attorneys, thats fine. Until they quit and join the legal team, their job is oversight. They were overlooking things, not doing oversight. Ive got a packed show. Got to run. See you soon, chris cuomo, in washington. But this is time for cnn tonight with me, don lemon. We had one bombshell after another as the impeachment hearings that began at 9 00 a. M. Stretched well into the night. I was actually worried. It was like, well, i dont know. Maybe i wont even go on tv if this continues the way it is. I thought it was going to stretch well into the 10 00, maybe 11 00 hour. It went on for a long time into the evening. Were going to bring you all the big moments that you might have missed, so stay tuned for that. But tonight, top pentagon official laura cooper thats her name shooting holes in the gop defense that there couldnt be a shakedown if ukraine didnt know that military aid was being withheld. Well, it turns out they did know. They knew on the very day of the president s infamous phone call with the president of ukraine. My staff showed me two unclassified emails that they received from the state department. One was received on july 25th at 2 31 p. M. That email said that the Ukrainian Embassy and House Foreign Affairs committee are asking about security assistance. The second email was received on july 25th at 4 25 p. M. That email said that the hill knows about the fmf situation to an extent, and so does the Ukrainian Embassy. Let me tell you, heres why that is so important. We started the day with the republicans arguing that there was no quid pro quo, no shakedown. Well, Gordon Sondland demolishing that defense with his testimony that the shakedown was directed by the president and Rudy Giuliani. Mr. Giulianis requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president zelensky. Mr. Giuliani demanded that ukraine make a Public Statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election dnc server and burisma. Mr. Giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the United States, and we knew these investigations were important to the president. There you go. Then there is the second republican argument that there couldnt be a quid pro quo if ukraine didnt know about it. Well, laura coopers testimony tonight blows that one right out of the water. And then there is the third republican argument. Ukraine got the aid, so no harm, no foul. Except heres the fact. The fact is that ukraine only got the aid because the president and his men got caught. And in the face of all of this, all of this damning evidence of a shakedown by the president , the republicans are spouting lies, and theyre spouting nonsense, conspiracy theories with no basis in fact. The democrats have zeroed in on an anonymous whistleblower complaint that was cooked up in cooperation with the democrats on this very committee. When journalists report on ukraine election meddling and Hunter Bidens position on the board of corrupt ukrainian companies, the democrats label them conspiracy theorists. I was wondering what hearing was he at. That is rich. What he said was rich because the fact is remember, facts first. Devin nunes is just throwing out one Conspiracy Theory after another after another. It is shameful, shameful that hes trying to distract you with garbage. Its garbage. Its trash. This is a time to be serious. This is a time to follow the facts wherever they lead, to look at the substance. Republicans, knock it off with the debunked conspiracy theories. You look really stupid and dumb. Be serious. Do your job. You took an oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States of america, the basis, the basis of our democracy. Defend the president on the facts of this case. If you cant do that without resorting to lies and nonsense, well, maybe that should probably tell you something. Yet one after another, those republicans are using their time in the impeachment hearings not to follow the facts, not to talk about the substance of this, but to perform for an audience of one. And here is the tell. Heres how you know all of this had nothing to do with corruption in ukraine. It was actually all about corruption in this administration. He had to announce the investigations. He didnt actually have to do them as i understood it. Busted. All he wanted was a public announcement. Hmm, why is that . A public announcement and not really investigations . What does that tell you . Maybe one scenario is when the election is going on, well, joe biden is under investigation. Who does that help . That helps the president , whos running for reelection. Who does it hurt . His political opponent. Duh. Whatever happened to draining the swamp . This is the swamp. The president claiming today that he doesnt know sondland very well, the man who told him on that cell phone call in the middle of the kiev restaurant that president zelensky, his words, loves your ass. Just listen to what sondland has to say about that. That sounds like something i would say. Thats how President Trump and i communicate, a lot of fourletter words, in this case threeletter. Does that sound like someone the president doesnt really know . While sondland is testifying, the president gets out in front of the cameras, reading his talking points. There they are, written in big letters in sharpie no less, because apparently he needs that to remember this statement. I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell zelensky to do the right thing. Then he says, this is the final word from the president of the United States. I want nothing. I want nothing. Thats what i said. Actually sondland said he was paraphrasing. He said the president said something to the effect. It wasnt a quote. So he had to read back. So actually what hes reading back is a paraphrase of what someone said he said. Its just like, you know, the memo of the call. Its not verbatim. This is a mess. Come on, people. Really . But that scribbled out in sharpie, it did the job. Every republican saw it. Every republican saw it. They got the message. As Michael Cohen told us, the president doesnt give orders. He speaks, and you get the message. He doesnt give you questions. He doesnt give you orders. He speaks in a code, and i understand the code because ive been around him for a decade. It doesnt take a genius. The president s message comes through. I mean, listen, no shade to Michael Cohen. Thats just an expression. It doesnt take a genius. Anybody can see what the president is doing. That message, the president s message, comes through loud and clear. On september 9th and most importantly reading from your deposition, you called President Trump to ask him, what do you want from ukraine . He responded, i want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. I want zelensky to do the right thing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. I want zelensky to do the right thing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. I want this new guy, brandnew guy in politics, his party just took over, i want zelensky to do the right thing. No quid pro quo. I want nothing. I want nothing. I want president zelensky to do the right thing. I want nothing. There is no quid pro quo. Let me repeat. President trump said, i want nothing. There is no quid pro quo. It is so obvious. Desperation. They even had signs made up. Wow, this actually happened. But the thing is this is not really about ukraine. This is about the president and his administration, and what we learned today is that more and more the president s men are getting caught in the scandal, starting with the president himself. Take a look at your screen. There it is. Sondlands testimony today makes that clear, and there is more to come tomorrow. Fiona hill, the president s former top russia adviser, testifies tomorrow along with diplomat david holmes, who overheard that explosive cell phone call in the middle of a crowded ukraine restaurant with the president asking whether ukraines president was going to, quote, do the investigations. As i have said, buckle up. More to come. That gets under way 9 00 a. M. Bombshell testimony. Surprise revelations. Well go through all of it, and im wondering with all the new evidence coming up in these hearings, are democrats are they rushing things . Lets discuss. Jim sciutto, john dean, carl bernstein. But well do it after the break. A wealth of information. A wealth of perspective. 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Yeah, and we brought steve and mark. Experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. Sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first months payment. Well you remember what happened last year. You cant bring a backup thanksgiving to my sisters house. Its not like were going to walk in with it. Well bring it in as we need it. Phase it in. Phase it in . Yeah, phase it in. So welcome back. Reporter in his impeachment testimony, ambassador Gordon Sondland flat out said the scheme to investigate President Trumps political opponents came at the express direction of the president. And later a pentagon official testified that ukraine officials knew as early the day of the president s ukraine call that military aid was frozen. Lets bring in mr. Jim sciutto, sir john dean, and mr. Carl bernstein. Gentlemen, thank you. A momentous day, im sure you all will agree. Jim, im going to start with you. Ambassador sondland and laura cooper both gave testimony today that demolished key republican arguments or talking points. So big picture, right . Sondland says there was a delay in the aid. There was a quid pro quo. It came from the direction of the president , and others were aware of it. You know, himself, pompeo, pence, et cetera. What he didnt say was that he heard those words directly from the president. The president did not say to him, do this, you know, and i will stand in the way of that. The question, though, remains why did they then do it, right . You know, why did all these senior officials in the Trump Administration then violate what was stated u. S. Policy towards ukraine, which was to give the aid to help fight the invasion against russia. So you, you know, basically the test for republicans and democrats is did they do that of their own free will . Did they violate the policy based on their own imagination of what the president wanted . I mean thats basically the gut check here is, you know, if he did not hear those words or is not willing to testify to those words, then why did they pursue a policy that violated what the stated u. S. Policy was towards ukraine. Thats the real test, and the question is does that provide enough of an opening for republican lawmakers to say, okay. Questionable, but we dont have the proof there to vote to impeach the president. Mmhmm. John dean, you say ambassador sondland put the truth over party and the president today, but did he stop short of telling the whole truth today . I think he did. When i saw it was trending on twitter today that he was having a full john dean moment, i thought about it, and another watergate term came to mind, that this was a modified limited hangout. I dont know if you remember that, don, but that was a phrase of a little ambiguous testimony where you pointed the finger. You protected yourself, but you did name everybody but the president really and really didnt draw him in. I was going to say to you, john, he did a good job of throwing everybody under the bus and covering his and cya. You know what that term means. Limited modified hangout. Modified limited hangout. Anyway, his statement, his written statement was the strongest part of his testimony. Right. He was not real good on really soft crossexamination and gave up, like, oh, im presuming this or i dont know this for a fact or i didnt have this conversation. So i had hoped for more during his crossexamination. When i did my own written statement, i raised things that i knew a lot about and was prepared to really turn the fire hose on if they asked me about it. That wasnt the case today. Carl bernstein, during watergate, nixon famously went on tv and said, i am not a crook. November 17th, almost exactly 46 years ago. Is President Trump a crook . Hes a corrupt president , and todays testimony made clear just how corrupt he is. But lets go back to the big picture that jim started with because what we saw today is the wheels have now come off the coverup, and the stunning dimensions of the underlying conspiracy are really apparent after sondlands testimony. When he said that everyone is in the loop, that really is apparent now. So we have a roadmap. We have a chronology. Was he the perfect witness . No. Hes flawed. He was not as great a witness as dean because he wasnt privy to as much as john dean was. But this takes us into new territory, and tomorrow we have fiona hill, who i suspect were going to learn an awful lot from about all kinds of things and views that happened at the National Security council, including some of john boltons views and actions. Ive said all along none of us knows where this is going to go. We dont know the outcome, and i think thats even more true after today. And its a grave situation. Jim, give us the final word because carl took us forward to tomorrow. I said earlier at this point, if you look at the evidence and you dont think that the president has done something wrong, perhaps theres something wrong with you. Again, that doesnt mean yhe should be removed from office or impeachment. But just from the facts, from the transcript, from the phone call, from the overheard phone call, the evidence is damning. It is. But you know what i worry here is that obstruction works in the end, right . You know, the president , the white house has banned the witnesses that would then make the explicit connection between the president and this order. John bolton, secretary pompeo, all the folks who someone like sondland says were also in on this, and the documens, the emails. I mean sondland said that in his opening statement. I cant back up all of my statements because i cant go back to reference the emails, communications, text messages, et cetera, that might jog my memory. And the worrisome fact here is does the white house strategy, in effect, work in that you prevent the witnesses and the documents from backing up that explicit connection to the president. We saw this to some degree during the mueller investigation. Do we see it again . Does it work . You know, it may end up in an article of impeachment, but does it work in turning the minds of republican lawmakers . It may be true. I think thats a very good point, and no matter what evidence comes out, theres always a more ridiculous excuse for the president s behavior that comes from the republicans. Thank you very much. I appreciate all of you. Huge revelations at todays hearings ripping apart the arguments by the president and his defenders. John kasich is next. Hes going to weigh in. Ng behin turn around look at me there is someone look at me they can save you these. In fact, if you had a dollar for every time they said it, youd have a lot of dollars. 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And i think after todays testimony, its likely were not going to know it within the next 12 hours, but we will know it over time, whether the testimony today moved the public because if the public is moved, then the Party Matters less. And then of course at the bottom of the triangle is a very important thing, and its called conscience. So for those who are whispering to one another about what this testimony means, right now the party is ascendant. The public is kind of you kow, consistent with the party if youre in a republican district. But if the public starts to move, it will make the party it will not be as powerful as it was, and then what every congressman has to do congressman and woman is they have to think about their conscience because at the end of the day and i signed this, don, personally for you by the way. At the end of the day when you go home, theres only one person that matters, and thats the person that you see in the mirror. So all youve been about is your party, you know, i think this explains the push and the pull. I think the testimony today, because i watched 11 minutes of one National News segment tonight i think the publics going to pay more attention. I cant predict where theyre going to move, but i think theyre going to have theyre going to put more pressure on for the person to be responsible, maybe a little less effect of the party. Does that make sense to new. You know were a big, legit organization. We have a graphics department. We could have made that up for you. I appreciate the effort. This is very extremely valuable, extremely valuable. Hold on. Everybody has their notes today. The president called, and he wants his sharpie back. Listen, its Serious Business here. What about over in the senate, okay . What do you think some of the more moderate senators are thinking when they see, the senate, thats develop interesting. Look, in the house, because of redistricting, there arent many marginal seats anymore, okay . It just didnt exist. So there are not that many people that are sitting over there worrying, okay, whats the public think because the public mostly is republican and agree with them if youre republican, democrat if youre a democrat. So the party still has great influence, and the publics kind of with you. At the end, you still have conscience you have to deal with. But in the United States senate, don, there are states where it can be extremely close, extremely close. Thats why the development go on. Is going to matter because it might put great pressure on some of these sorry for debt lalay. We have a little cross talk of that. The Ranking Member devin nunes didnt talk about substance at all. Its got to be part of the strategy to create these moments that can be used to spread these conspiracy theories on fox news, on conservative media, and on social media. Thats got to be it because what he said didnt had nothing to do with what was happening in the hearings. To me, don, the question is going to be the regular media and social media, and i saw a lot of attention being given to sondland today. How does that penetrate . How do people feel about it . And as the public, you know, wakes up, and if they move, they put tremendous pressure on members of the United States senate, who are in vulnerable seats. Thats my question. Lets stick to the question. Yeah. It doesnt matter what he did. It doesnt matter. Media dismiss that. I mean i dont you dont think the people at home or the people who are watching conservative media or listening to conservative media and getting those talking points, theyre not hearing substance at all. Theyre hearing debunked conspiracy theories and process. Yeah, but, don, i think we can talk about the conservative media, okay . But if we look at the numbers for all cable, you know, and you look at an evening newscast that puts 11 of the first 15 minutes on all about this. Right. It drowns out. The numbers are much bigger. And well see what the headlines are tomorrow, and well see what theyre going to talk about tomorrow morning on these Early Morning shows that people are listening while theyre getting the kids ready for school. Thats what we have to keep our eye on. Where is the public because the public will mitigate party, and may force some people to think about their conscience. Okay. And being true to it. Conscience. One way or the other. Party, public, in a triangle. Thank you, john kasich. Okay. It could go in a Political Science book. It could be brilliant, like the theory of relativity. All right, don. Thank you. He needs an art class. Gordon sondland implicating some major Trump Administration players in the ukraine scandal. Well be right back. Er shop. 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Sondland claims that he told pence early in september, before the v. P. Was to meet ukraines president , that he was concerned aid to ukraine was tied to the investigations. Well, tonight pence tells a wisconsin tv reporter that he has no recollection of any discussion. Now, note that he used the word discussion. Sondland testified that when he expressed his concerns to mike pence, the v. P. Didnt say anything, just nodded his head. And then there is the secretary of state, mike pompeo here. Well, mike pompeo, sondland says, emailed him with concerns about linking the money to the investigations and in emails sondland gave the committee, pompeo appeared to approve of sondlands work in ukraine. But tonight pompeos spokesperson says sondland never told the secretary that he believed the president was linking aid to investigations of political opponents and that any suggestions to the contrary are false. Theres also the Outgoing Energy secretary, rick perry. Sondland says that perry worked with Rudy Giuliani to press for the investigations. But perry denies knowledge of the quid pro quo, and he is refusing to cooperate with the impeachment investigation. Theres also Rudy Giuliani at the top there. Sondland testified the quid pro quo came from him at the express direction of President Trump. But after sondlands testimony today, giuliani claimed he never discussed the issue of military aid with sondland. As for mick mulvaney, well, sondland claims that he emailed the acting white house chief of staff before the infamous july 25th phone call, making clear the scheme was in play. Mulvaney admitted to the quid pro quo at a press briefing in october. But then he later denied that he publicly admitted to it. And then there is the former National Security adviser john bolton, who was in the july 10th meeting with ukrainian officials where sondland brought up the shakedown scheme. 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What do you think . Well, it was very damning and very compelling, and i thought his statement, which is in writing, pretty strong, and of course this really thickens the plot. So i thought it was hugely damaging and not a good day for the white house. He testified, meaning sondland, that some of the most senior members of the administration, meaning pompeo, mulvaney, bolton they all knew about this shakedown scheme. But as it stands right now, were not going to hear from any of them. We know the democrats strategy is to wrap this up quickly, but dont you think we need to hear from them . Well, obviously i couldnt help but think about when the republicans were complaining about the witnesses who were reporting secondhand observations. Well, the people who have firsthand observation wont or arent permitted to testify. So one would think that exculpatory information that would help the president , they would be in the witness chair, but obviously theyre not. I would guess we probably wont see them. Another person who testified today is laura cooper. Shes a Deputy Assistant secretary of defense. She updated her testimony today tonight actually and revealed that the ukrainians reached out to defense and state, meaning the defense and state departments about the status of the aid on the very same day of the trump zelensky call. Does that reveal they knew what was going on . Yes, it certainly substantiates it, and i suspect they actually knew about it before that. But clearly the effort to rationalize that no harm, no foul because the ukrainians never knew about the hold, well, im sure they did. As important as this was to them and the long delay that im sure the ukrainians understood what was going on. Listen, if you can answer this for me. Minority leader devin nunes continuing to use the hearings today to spread unfounded conspiracy theories. One is that ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. Theres absolutely no evidence that is true. Its like hes living in an alternate universe. Well, yeah. There was absolutely no intelligence, certainly contemporaneously whatever of the ukrainians attempting to interfere in the election. I dont know what motivation they would have to do that. But lets just assume for the sake of discussion that what congressman nunes said was right. Well, that dwarves exponenti exponentially what the russians did dwarves exponentially even the allegations, which theres no basis for, about the alleged ukrainian interference, so its just ridiculous. Its just a distraction. Yeah. Intelligence is the key word in that. Thank you. Thank you very much, director. I appreciate it. Thanks, don. As the testimony gets more and more damning for the president , hes even writin down his favorite talking points. No quid pro quo. How the white house is reacting to all of this, next. Did you get a whole thanksgiving . Well you remember what happened last year. 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I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell zelenski to do the right thing. Then he says, this is the final word from the president of the United States, i want nothing. Thank you folks. Have a good time. I mean, come on. Michael, he read from his pad, his talking points were written in black sharpie. You can clearly read i want nothing, i want nothing, i want no quid pro quo, tells zelenski which is, by the way, misspelled, to do the right thing. This is the final word from the president of the United States. Is he going to need more than a few talking points. I think he might need to go back to walter reed for psychiatric exam because this was crazy town. Watching the president standing on the driveway there bellowing at the cameras, i want nothing, i want nothing is absurd. You know, this is a kind of unreal approach to this profound crisis that the president is dragging the country through because of his behavior, because of his corruption. And were seeing the man fall apart. Now, the one thing ill give him is that hes consistent. Hes behaved this way for much of his adult life. Hes not going to give in. Hes not going to acknowledge reality. And so were going to have to force him to see it. The congress is going to have to force him to see it and the American People will have to require it. Trust me, right now someone is writing the Broadway Musical no quid pro quo or maybe its i want nothing i want nothing underlined no quid pro quo in small letters. Listen, susan, the president , here he is describing his handpicked ambassador who not only donated a Million Dollars to his inauguration but served as a fundraiser for his campaign. Watch. I dont know him very well. I have not spoken to him very much. This is not a man i know well. He does that i mean he barely knew him . Where have we heard that before, susan . Weve heard it a few times before. Donald trump has a breathtaking cycling through of aides and advisers in and out of his white house, in and out of his company. And guess what, you can be pretty sure when the door hits you on the way out that donald trump has no idea who you are, you hardly met each other, you never talked. Gordon sondland testified under oath that he interacted and talked with the president approximately 20 times. I was really struck yesterday when tim morrison, no fan of his at the National Security council, they were very suspicious of Gordon Sondland. That was he was bragging about having access to the president. Tim morrison said every time i checked out whether he had a phone call with the president , he did. I think that was the power of the testimony today was this was a guy who had interacted directly with the president. He takes you back in time to the oval office in may when the president of the United States said talk to rudy, hes the guy. You have to deal with him on this. And thats putting it in the president s own words and then you watch it unfolding over the next few months. Michael, the president really took offense at being characterized as not in a good mood on that phone call, saying that hes always in a good mood. Really . I think Gordon Sondland is absolutely right. The president was in a bad mood whenever i saw him in the mornings back when i was interviewing him for my book. And, you know, i think this idea that he doesnt know someone like Gordon Sondland, he knew him well enough to take his 1 million, and he knew him well enough a month ago october 8th he said that Gordon Sondland is a very good guy and that hes a great american. So, which is it, President Trump . Great american or i dont really know him . He was just a coffee boy. Weve heard that one before, remember . Susan, Ohio Republican jim jordan has been given a prominent role in this. No jacket, loud voice, lots of yelling. That may appeal to the gop base. Hes playing to a party of one, right . I will say that my 14yearold son who hadnt been watching the hearings came in in the evening session today and jordon was on the tv. He had no idea who it was, what party he was, he was like mom, can you turn off that yelling man. I think he speaks for all of us. Its an interesting tactic. It seems to be just yell and undermine the witnesses. Its not just the audience of one is trump though. Its also that theyre getting their documents from trump. I felt like the republicans this morning were stunned and didnt know how to deal with sondland and it was only when they sort of rallied later in the day and trump essentially gave them marching orders that they seemed to snap to and mount a much more vociferous attack on the witness. An interesting day and interesting tomorrow. It starts at 9 00 a. M. Our live coverage is going to continue now with anderson cooper. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Coming up on 11 00 p. M. Here in new york. Two big stories, damaging testimony about the president and the debate in the race to be his democratic opponent. Debate in the closing moments, well be talking to candidates getting a sense of how they did and getting a sense of questions that werent asked on the stand today. Its a two david night. A quick note about the well debate coming up. Out the next what stood out to you about the debate tonight . I thought generally aside from the end of the debate they were pretty civil to each other. I think that Pete Buttigieg is a terrific baiter and he is somebody who really needed to tell people and try to this evening and i think with some success that even though hes young and only been a mayor, et cetera, et cetera, that he has what he calls the right kind of experience to lead him to become president of the United States. And he also tried to compare his experiences as a gay american to africanamericans when he talked about when he was asked about his inability so far to appeal to black voters and said, you know, i know what its like to live in a country that sometimes you dont recognize as your own. I Butte Buttigieg had a good night. You heard kamala try to take it to him, in a gentle way. I dont think it was the fireworks she reserved for tulsi gabbard. She can bring the Obama Coalition to bear in 2020 in