ukrainian officials pushing for a white house meeting. volker writing to an aide for zelensky, assuming president z. convinces president trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down a date for the president to washington. good luck. on august 9th, sondland messages volker. i think potus wants the deliverable. should ask for the ukrainian president s aid in drafting a statement to see exactly what they propose to cover. volker will also appear on tuesday. kurt volker, let s remember, is a former career foreign service officer. volker knew what normal foreign policy looks lake. reporter: the week s final witness fiona hill is expected to describe what she saw as a nightmare scenario. private interest driving u.s. policy. where do you think everybody kneads to be at the end of next week? i think democrats need to be
this week. erica hill hear to explain why. good morning. ahead of gordon sondland, there s a clear plan to set the stage with testimony from officials who were on that july 25th call including some who expressed concern over the role of negotiations with ukraine. reporter: three days, eight witnesses. this has been an intense paerd for the house intelligence committee. and this could be its final act. reporter: an increasing focus on one man. gordon sondland. he s the one who seemed to have an awful lot of access to the president. reporter: the ambassador to the european union and a million-dollar trump donor is scheduled to testify on monday. amid new questions about his role. in the presence of my staff at a restaurant, ambassador sondland called president trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. reporter: on that call just one day after the now-infamous july 25th call. i made a perfect call. not a good call, perfect call.
released transcripts morrison listened in on the july 25th call as did jennifer williams, an adviser to vice president pence who will also apear tuesday. and said the call struck her as unusual. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman raised concerns after listening to the july 25th call. he, too, is slated to appear on tuesday. there is no one star witness that this whole case will rise or fall on. not that we know of right now, but i think vindman is another brick in the wall that house democrats are trying to build. reporter: former special representative to ukraine kurt volker defended the president s actions in closed door testimony. telling lawmakers there was, quote, no leverage implied. there was no linkage. and i think further testimony and depositions will confirm that. multiple times. we ve got text messages from volker and sondland. reporter: volker s private text message the morning of the july 25th call revealed
reporter: ambassador sondland told president trump that zelensky would do anything trump asked. including launch an investigation into the bidens. i understand you have new information reporter: a bombshell confirmed late friday in closed door testimony by a staffer who overheard it. the gordon sondland testimony is going to be highly significant. because he has already admitted in his testimony to say he told a top ukrainian official that security assistance from the united states roughly $400 million was lakely tied to the ask for investigations. according to multiple witnesses, the reason he knows that is because of a conversation he had with president trump. reporter: tim morrison, a former national security official set to testify on tuesday told lawmakers last month sondland was acting at trump s direction. and striped the eu ambassador as a problem according to newly
volker will also appear on tuesday. kurt volker, let s remember, is a former career foreign service officer. kurt volker knew what normal foreign policy looks like. reporter: the week s final witness, fiona hill, is expected to describe what she saw as a nightmare scenario. private interests driving u.s. policy. where do you think everybody needs to be at the end of next week? i think democrats need to be in a position where they can say we are confident in this case, and i think the republicans just need to be at a place of either there s doubt about this case, there s doubt about whether it s true, or maybe it happened, but it s not serious enough to merit impeachment. reporter: high stakes heading into a potentially explosive week of testimony. we are adjourned. all right. our thanks to erica hill and thanks to you for watching. this is life with lisa ling is next.