These events. By obligation, you mean your legal obligation or did you mean something bigger . Both my legal obligation and my moral obligation. Your moral obligation. I actually want to present an alternative theory. Your family came here escaping the holocaust via uruguay. Your parents moved, lucy and later you, here. Youve done that american Success Story through dint of hard work and innovation, good idea, a knack for hiring the right people and some look, youve built up considerable, successful business, one that i know for a fact would make your parents proud. They came here because they knew that it was here that they could
have freedom that they had not enjoyed, security that they had not enjoyed, and opportunity that they had not enjoyed. No doubt on some level, youre grateful and its created a sense of patriotism in you. Is that fair to say . Very fair. Why, sir, with your courage to come before us, does that same standard not apply to mr. Mulvaney, mr. Duffy, mr. Pompeo, mr.
than 30 hours the hearings do not seem to have changed the political dynamics in washington. president trump continues to insist that he has done nothing wrong and there are still no republicans in the house or senate that we could tell are in favor of impeachment. democrats on the house intelligence committee are expected to spend the next week drafting a report for the house judiciary committee which will make a determination on articles of impeachment. if the house moves forward sources say a vote on impeachment could happen before christmas. here is me, the man leading the impeachment inquiry, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, chairman adam schiff of california. thank you for being here. thank you. do you think that is the most important testimony, that gordon sondland said there was a quid pro quo when it came to the bidens investigation and the meeting. i was struck by dr. hill s testimony when she acknowledged and i think she came to this conclusion, watchi
figure of this whole inquiry. the president of the united states stating it is plainly and clearly as he could. second, i do think it s important to understand there were only 14 days that the ukrainians knew that the aid was held up. they learned on august 29, and the 14 day time frame, the 29th of august, there are three key interactions with senior government officials on the president of ukraine. the most important in my judgment was the last one, the bipartisan meeting from the legislative branch. if ever there was a time or zelensky would ve brought up the idea that aid was somehow linked to him announcing him an investigation, that would ve been the time because senator murphy brought it up himself. still, president zelensky never said in any way that there was aid. that the investigation was linked. that s the key take away. everything else is ambassador sondland surmising what someone
so it was unfortunate that he was willing to meet without the commitment on the investigation. thank you, ambassador. mr. ambassador, let s pick up there. you would have preferred if they just have the meeting with the president of ukraine without these conditions. yes. but there were these conditions. it involved an investigation. the initial invitation that the president sent to president zelensky had no conditions. but that didn t last very long, did it? then there were conditions. it s not controversial, i don t believe. you thought the conditions were burisma and the 2016 elections. we now know that burisma means bidens. today we do. weekend, from today to the end of time, set aside any confusion that when somebody is asking for an investigation of burisma over the summer, what they really meant was bidens.
get an investigation into his rival. getting caught is no defense, not to a violation of the constitution or to a violation of his oath of office, and it certainly doesn t give us a reason to ignore our own oath of office. we are adjourned. [applause] that wraps up ambassador gordon sondland s testimony. i am john roberts. we will take you back to the hill. testifying today there was a quid pro quo for you kane s president to get a meeting at the white house. he said he presumed u.s. military aid was linked to the country announcing investigations into claims of ukrainian interference of the 2016 election. and the ukrainian gas company burisma. let s get some reaction from the folks who ve been with us all day. bret baier, chief political anchor and the anchor of