generate the saints fleur-de-lis logo. the saints official account couldn t lose after this blessed and highly favored. we don t believe the pope is an nfl fan but if he has a team, it would be the saints, right? some fortnite fans would be hoping the same on the black hole situation. it will come back. go play some sports. that s it. thank you for joining us. i m julia chesley. i m a video of a fake president trump stabbing and shooting members of the media. and his critics. a huge week on capitol hill. we ll see the former ambassador gordon sondland testify. donald trump released the supposed transcript of this phone call because there was no quid pro quo.
department from testifying on capitol hill. now, under subpoena pressure he will be testifying. and according to the washington post, sondland, denying there was any quid pro quo in the conversations, according to the washington post, he will say the president told him there was no quid pro quo, but he doesn t necessarily know if that statement was, in deed, truthful. while democrats have spent much of the weekend preparing for the busy week on the will, the president, meanwhile, is spending time defending his personal attorney, rudy giuliani. he was a fantastic prosecutor. i know nothing about him being under investigation. somebody said, i heard a report. i can t imagine it. he s a man who looks for corruption. and whatever he does, i believe he s a totally i mean, i know, he s an honorable man. reporter: a source confirming that the president had lunch with rudy giuliani at his golf course on saturday. and the president s defense and decision to have lunch with his persona
they re going to focus like a laser on the five-hour time period between when bill taylor was talking to gordon sondland on the phone, how often and what got talked about in the sondland/donald trump, the president the center of this, and then how did they come to the place where sondland was saying let s take this offline. there s no quid pro quo. but let s not talk about it on text. that is going to be a rich, rich vein to mine this week. in terms of who else is involved, we know there are these two guys, soviet-born associates, long-time associates of rudy giuliani. and you happened to meet with them. you happened to catch them on audio tape. tell us a little bit more about that meeting and what they said. yeah, alisyn. this was back in march when i was meeting with giuliani because the results of the mueller probe were actually
numerous depositions scheduled and subpoenas due in the trump impeachment inquiry. the fast pace dictated by the pressure of house democrats to impeach by thanksgiving. jeremy diamond has more from the white house. reporter: good morning, dave and julia. a busy week on capitol hill, indeed. it all begins today, as democrats continue to move forward with their house impeachment inquiry. they will be bringing forward fiona hill for a deposition behind closed doors. she was the top adviser for much of the president s tenure. she left the white house days before the president s call with zelensky in july. fiona hill will be just the beginning of democrats moves this week. later in the week, they will be bringing forward gordon sondland, the european ambassador. last year, he was barred by the white house and the state
joe biden and his family and political opponents. so that is full stop, you can t. i think the democrats this is an important week. and it started on friday. and i really think that ambassador yovanovitch sent a message to everyone else that you can go in, the president can t stop you. they ve been very effective up until now in keeping anyone inside the tent from going up to one of these. but they did stop gordon sondland. last week they did stop him. then he was subpoenaed. and then he was subpoenaed and they this white house has resisted numerous subpoenas. there are subpoenas out to the white house counsel don mcgahn in the mueller report and many others. his deputy. but yovanovitch proved you can go in, you don t need the president s permission. and now again, the democrats have what they need already to promote an article of impeachment. now they re filling in the blanks of who else was involved.